The Raines football team huddles after their 28-8 win over Sarasota Booker in a FHSAA Class 3A state semifinal on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. The Vikings (13-0) advanced to the seventh state final in program history. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

The new mural under the Fuller Warren Bridge. | News4Jax

The Pucillo family are, from left, Marie, Giovanni, Elena Rose and Evan. Evan will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in February to raise money for a nonprofit organization that supports families, like the Pucillos, coping with the death of an infant. | Submitted, Evan Pucillo

University of North Florida President Moez Limayem.

A sign for the Capital City Country Club is seen Oct. 22, 2025, in Tallahassee. | Kate Payne, AP file

The drought has left low water levels across North Florida.

Timucuan Asset Management Inc. will lease about 7,034 square feet on the top floor of One Tower Court, the new office building next to the Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences. | Jacksonville Daily Record

Firefighters line up during Jacksonville’s Fallen Firefighter Memorial on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. Each helmet carries the name of one of the 28 who have died in the line of duty. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

North Florida Motorsports Park is billed as a "600-acre automotive lifestyle destination." | Jacksonville Daily Record

A Pensacola police car sits in the snow last winter. | Pensacola Police Department

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference Aug. 12, 2025, in Tampa. | Chris O'Meara, AP file

Duval Schools CFO Ron Fagan, left, gives a presentation to school board members about the district's finances on Dec. 8, 2025. | Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

Swisher is headquartered at 459 E. 16th St. in Jacksonville. The company says it is planning a $135 million expansion. | Jacksonville Daily Record

A woman paddleboards on a river. | PaddleAdventurer.com

Numa Saisselin stands inside the Florida Theatre in mid-2023, as a renovation began. Saisselin has resigned as the theater's president. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

Sheriff T.K. Waters speaks Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, about the arrest of a police officer on charges of false imprisonment and stalking. | News4Jax

Indian marketplace Patel Brothers plans a 20,000-square-foot store in the developing Shops at Racetrack Rd. in St. Johns County. | Patel Brothers

Ken Babby, pictured in 2023, owned the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp for 10 years. He purchased the club from Peter Bragan. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Ability Housing has opened Village at Cedar Hills, an affordable housing complex on Jacksonville’s Westside. | Michelle Corum, Jacksonville Today

The Narcotics Overdose Death Investigations Unit rushes a house during a recent drug investigation. | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office

One of JTA's autonomous vehicles. | Jacksonville Today

Haley Bartlett, John Phillips, and Hope McMath at a news conference in Phillips' office Monday. | Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

An endangered North Atlantic right whale named "Division" was spotted Wednesdaty, Dec. 3, 2025, off Jekyll Island, Georgia. Fishing lines were entangled around ihis body. | Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Feeding Northeast Florida received a $250,000 donation from Baptist Health to combat food insecurity in the region. The food distribution nonprofit says the money will fund 215,000 meals. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today