June 3, 2025
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June 2, 2025
Jax Pride Month celebration altered amid drawbridge confusion
Demonstrators planned a celebration on the bridge, but the drawbridge was raised just as they approached.…
June 2, 2025
Jacksonville council members reverse course on hiring and firing DIA chief
City Council is on track to make changes to how the Downtown Investment Authority issues taxpayer incentives.…
June 2, 2025
BIT OF JOY | Jumbo Shrimp broadcaster moves to MLB
Jumbo Shrimp broadcaster Scott Kornberg will join the Marlins Radio Network to call Miami Marlins games this summer.…
May 30, 2025
60 vehicles still trapped in burned airport parking garage
No one knows when the garage will be safe enough to remove the remaining vehicles.…
May 30, 2025
St. Augustine will remove nine derelict boats
Beginning Monday, the vessels will be removed from Salt Run and the Matanzas River.…
May 30, 2025
#AskJAXTDY | What is the law about weapons at City Council meetings?
A Jacksonville Today reader asks about the regarding concealed weapons at a City Council meeting.…
May 30, 2025
Former lawmaker and FSU President John Thrasher dies
Thrasher, 81, was lauded as a dedicated and honorable public servant. He died after battling cancer.…
May 30, 2025
BIT OF JOY | JU art highlighted in award-winning documentary
A 9-minute documentary about the glowing glass obelisk erected in front of Jacksonville University in 2023 has won four 2025…
May 30, 2025
NUMBER OF THE WEEK | House prices trend downward
Our Number of the Week is the median price for a home in the Jacksonville metro area: about $392,000.…
May 29, 2025
Next council president seeks new approach to Downtown development
Kevin Carrico wants to give City Council more say over the CEO of the Downtown Investment Authority.…
May 29, 2025
#AskJAXTDY | Do I have to trim my tree if it hangs over my neighbor’s house?
A Jacksonville Today reader wonders whether she has to trim her tree if it hangs over her neighbor’s house.…
May 29, 2025
PHOTO ESSAY | Jacksonville schools mark closures with smiles amid somber celebrations
Jacksonville Today captured the final gatherings at five Duval County elementary schools that will close or consolidate after the 2025…
May 29, 2025
BIT OF JOY | Ladies of the ’80s
When you think of a night at the symphony, you might immediately start humming classical works from men who have been…
May 28, 2025
City Hall security under review after arrests at council meeting
Mayor Donna Deegan says officials will review security options after a protester sneaked a knife into a meeting.…
May 28, 2025
WHAT TO DO | Summer at the Cummer; ‘Heavyweight;’ Night Under the Stars
Summer at the Cummer, the closing weekend of the Heavyweight art exhibit, and a night under the stars in St.…
May 28, 2025
Black history museum hits hurdle in Legislature, but it isn’t dead
A measure to back a state-run Black history museum in St. Augustine got sidetracked during budget discussions.…
May 28, 2025
BIT OF JOY | Summer at the Cummer
The Cummer Museum will have free admission and entertainment on four Friday nights in May and June.…
May 27, 2025
Jax Council finalizes city’s first garbage fee increase since 2010
City lawmakers’ move to increase Jacksonville’s garbage fee for the first time in 15 years is meant to tackle a…
May 27, 2025
Jax library board nominee Elizabeth Andersen voted down
Andersen, the former Duval School Board chair, couldn’t shake a years-old controversy over comments she made about Moms for Liberty…
May 27, 2025
Deaths reach 70 on Jacksonville’s roads this year
Deaths this year are in line with last year’s, but Memorial Day weekend was particularly deadly in Jacksonville.…
May 27, 2025
As St. Johns County grows, house fires are increasing
House fires, including one on Memorial Day, have grown 6.5% this year in St. Johns County.…
May 27, 2025
Eastside park rededicated as symbol of community commitment
Residents, community leaders, nonprofits and even the Jaguars Foundation helped restore Buster Ford Checkerboard Park.…
May 27, 2025
THE JAXSON | Milldale: A long-forgotten early Jacksonville mill town
Five facts about Milldale. a long-forgotten industrial mill town born from Panama Park’s Cummer Lumber Co.…