Rodman dam, formally known as the Kirkpatrick Dam, has stood for decades despite efforts by environmental groups, Florida governors and federal bureaucrats to get rid of it. | Florida Parks

The Shands Bridge connects Green Cove Springs with St. Johns County. The bridge will be closed during the coming weekend. | Florida Department of Transportation

Jacksonville's Anheuser-Busch brewery and canning facility operates on the city's Northside. | Anheuser-Busch

A flu patient coughs into a tissue. | News4Jax

Police investigated an officer-involved shooting late Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. at the Luxor Club Apartments on Egrets Nest Drive. | News4Jax

This historic Armory building, completed in 1916, sits south of Hogans Creek and north of State Street near Downtown Jacksonville. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today

Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at "Deportation Depot" in Baker County. | News4Jax

Drivers traveling along this chunk of A1A South on Anastasia Island will see delays through January as county crews work on relocating a water main. | Google Maps

A renovated former FBI field office building at 8000 Arlington Expressway in Arlington is now being leased as Interra Apartment Homes. | Interra Apartment Homes

Amazon has begun home delivery of Winn-Dixie groceries in Jacksonville. | Winn-Dixie/Amazon

New Year's Eve fireworks over St. Augustine Beach.

Members of the Freedom Roads Socialist Organization, Jacksonville Community Action Committee, Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network, Take ‘Em Down Jax and the Jacksonville Immigrant Rights Alliance spoke out against the United States government removing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro during a Jan. 3, 2026 rally outside of Sen. Rick Scott's office at the Charles Bennett Federal Building in downtown Jacksonville. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Centre Street in Fernandina Beach, where paid parking would be required. | City of Fernandina Beach

Florida posted a slight increase in tourism during the third quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, even as Canadians continued to back off on travel to the U.S. | Daylina Miller, WUSF

Security guards at Jacksonville City Hall were directed to write down the names of people who brought guns inside the building. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Clay County Bishop Marvin C. Zanders II speaks Dec. 31, 2025, with a group of other regional faith, education and civic leaders. | Livestream of news conference

Teresa Brady is a former president of Duval Teachers United, the district's teachers union.

The 2026 Florida legislative session will begin Jan. 13.

A man waits his turn to speak at a Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission hearing about proposed bear hunting in May 2025 in Ocala. | John Raoux, AP

Sheriff's Lt. Marc Crawford fired multiple shots into a tractor-trailer during a crash last March. | News4Jax

Sheriff's officers investigate an officer-involved shooting Monday, Dec. 29, 2025, in the Oceanway neighborhood. | News4Jax

Construction work contniues at the Hub Brooklyn on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. | Monty Zickuhr, Jacksonville Daily Record