JTA Interim CEO Cleveland Ferguson III speaks to news reporters Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, at the transit agency's headquarters in LaVilla. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today

Johnnetta Betsch Cole sits in her American Beach home on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. Cole, who turned 90 earlier in the month, will celebrate her milestone birthday with a fundraiser for the A.L. Lewis Black Opportunity & Investment Fund. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Tony Moore is the first CEO of the Jax Riverfront Alliance. | Jax Riverfront Alliance

Experience "The Phantom of the Opera" like never before: With a live-improvised organ score.

Yard signs supporting the 1-mill tax extension for Duval Schools read "Keep our best teachers in Duval." Duval School Board candidates weighed in on the tax and other issues before the November election. | School Board member Cindy Pearson via Facebook

The Rev. Allison DeFoor, president of the North Florida Land trust, who died Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. | North Florida Land Trust

LIFT Jax purchased and renovated this home on Spearing Street on the Eastside in 2025 in order to sell it as an affordable housing property. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

The lakefront dining area of Pusser's Caribbean Bar & Grille, off State Road A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach. | Pusser's/Facebook

Established in 1869, Jacksonville's historically African American neighborhood of Oakland helped shape the city's cultural identity.| General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church.

The Jacksonville Housing Authority board meets Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. | Elizabeth Caldwell, Jacksonville Today

A nine-person task force selected a site in St. Augustine's West Augustine community as the future home of the Florida Museum of Black History. The site was once the home of Florida Memorial University. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

The interior of Alder & Oak at the Hub in Brooklyn, one of two locations of the Mediterranean-style restaurant opened in Jacksonville in 2026. | Hanna Raskin

Mayor Donna Deegan answers questions at the presentation of Jacksonville's first comprehensive food plan | Simone Endress, Jacksonville Today

A crowd walks through St. Augustine on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, as part of the annual Out of the Darkness Walk organized by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention North Florida. | Noah Hertz, Jacksonville Today

The Rev. Christopher McKee Jr., lead pastor of The Church of Oakland in Jacksonville's Eastside, has organized voter mobilization efforts in both Florida and Ohio since he became a pastor in 2013. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits the Lincoln Memorial University campus in Orange Park on Oct. 21, 2026. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

An illustration of the Fleet Landing tower at the site of the former Haskell headquarters in Brooklyn. | Gensler

Florida Senate President Ben Albritton says he will vote against Amendment 3 at the polls. | Colin Hackley, News Service of Florida

Blues Fest takes over at St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church in St. Augustine

Author Madeline Martin poses with readers for a group photo at a recent event at San Marco Books and More in Jacksonville | Courtesy Madeline Martin

The boundaries of a proposed 200-acre development near the busy intersection of Interstate 95 and State Road 16 in St. Johns County | St. Johns County

Election Day is Nov. 3, 2026. Voters can cast their ballots before by early voting or vote by mail. | WUSF