A mating pod of manatees in the mainstream of the St. Johns River near Mandarin Point. | Gerard Pinto, Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute

Pam Rock’s brother, Tom Rock, encouraged lawmakers on the Senate's Fiscal Policy Committee to vote for the bill on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. | Florida Senate.

Intuition Ale Works is at at Bay Street and A. Philip Randolph Boulevard. | Intuition Ale Works

Residents in Orange Acres work on fixing a badly damaged home in Sarasota after Hurricane Milton. | Kylie Williams, WUFT News

Chart by Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

An aerial illustration shows what the University of Florida’s graduate campus in LaVilla could look like once it's all built. | Downtown Investment Authority/UF

Jacksonville sailor Sarah Svejkovsky received a Sailor of the Year award this month. | Submitted

The Henry C. Arpen farmhouse sits on Linjohn Road. The 19th century farmhouse is being recommended for local landmark designation. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

Volunteers take census notes during the 2018 Point-in-Time homeless count in downtown Jacksonville. | Cyd Hoskinson, Jacksonville Today

An illustration shows the proposed redesign of Peace Memorial Park in Riverside | City of Jacksonville

Camping World Stadium might host the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2027. | campingworldstadium.com

JEA crews set up poles for demonstrations at this weekend’s Jax Ready Fest at the Prime Osborn Convention Center. | JEA

Emanuel Fortune circa 1868 | Florida Memory

Volunteers clean a Jacksonville beachfront during a recent St. Johns River Celebration. | City of Jacksonville

Jacksonville University's Rip Current Athletic Band held a concert Tuesday, April 22, 2025, outside the campus to protest the closure of the school's music and theater programs. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

UF Health's Brentwood facility. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

One of the RESTORE transitional homes in Jacksonville, where women stay after their release from prison. | Michelle Corum, Jacksonville Today

St. Augustine police cars. | St. Augustine Police, Facebook

One pet who is both vaccinated and loved | Heather Henderson, Jacksonville Today

Lake Shore Middle School | Google

Christine Watson-McCloud was one of more than 100 volunteers who participated in third annual Neighborhoods United Cleanup on Saturday, April 19, 2025. Watson-McCloud has lived in the Grand Park community for more than 50 years and says the cleanup was a way to spread love in her neighborhood. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

A sea turtle hatchling near its nest. | Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol

The city of St. Augustine celebrated the legacy of George & Ollie Smith with the opening of a park adjacent to their Lincolnville home on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. George, and his late wife Ollie, welcomed people into their home during the Freedom Summer demonstrations in 1964. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today