Candidates for Jacksonville City Council answer the Jax Today Questionnaire.

The Jacksonville Public Education Fund on Thursday announced the finalists for the VyStar Duval County Teacher of the Year for 2023. The nonprofit will name one of these five as the Teacher of the Year at the EDDY Awards on Feb. 10, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront: Katrina Bias (Deutsche Bank finalist) School: Garden City Elementary School Grades taught: 3-5

Jacksonville Beach Elementary is cleared after a bomb threat caused an evacuation Thursday morning. “All students and staff are safe, and they have returned to the school,” a Duval Schools spokesperson said in an email shortly after 11:30 a.m. Students were taken off campus as the gifted and academically talented magnet elementary school was locked down for police to search

Photos and captions by Dennis Ho | Editing by Matthew Shaw | Intro by Jessica Palombo The Eastside, or Out East, as residents know it, is the poster community for “withintrification” in Jacksonville. The once-vibrant historically Black neighborhood has struggled economically, but residents say they don’t need outsiders to drive improvements. For Jacksonville Today, photographer Dennis Ho shares portraits of

The city of Jacksonville is offering to buy out homes in a flood-prone riverfront neighborhood.