Lake Wales will not seek a new police chief after all. A week after announcing the planned firing of Chief Chris Velasquez, Lake Wales City Manager James Slaton announced at Tuesday night’s City ...

It appears that Lake Wales is not in danger of losing its city manager after all. James Slaton, the city manager since 2020, has applied for the same position with at least three other cities in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recently released independent report found that most of the business partners listed by BizLinc in Lake Wales were not current ...

Nearly two years after her suspension from the Lake Wales City Commission, Kris Fitzgerald has been returned to office. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an order Wednesday reinstating Fitzgerald, whom ...

Lake Wales, Polk County’s sixth-largest city with a population of about 17,000, has a “weak mayor” system of government, meaning the mayor is a city commissioner with limited extra powers, such as ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. (WFLA) — The Lake Wales City Commission approved a signed agreement Tuesday evening that will return ownership of the historic Dixie Walesbilt Hotel to the city. The hotel, which ...

Negotiations to renovate the historic Walesbilt Hotel in Lake Wales are likely to continue at least until February. The city has hired an analytics firm to assess the project's financial probabilities ...