August 9, 2022
A federal judge on Monday questioned part of a new Florida law that restricts the way businesses can address race-related…
August 4, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Duval School Board District 2
Two candidates are running in Duval County School Board District 2, a non-partisan race. The August race, which would normally…
August 4, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Florida House District 14
Four Democrats are on the August ballot for the newly drawn state House District 14. The previous District 14 was…
August 3, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Property tax increase for Duval Schools
The Duval County School Board is asking property owners to pitch in more for public schools. All Duval voters are…
August 3, 2022
Child sex-abuse allegation surfaces for Clay Commission candidate
Local dirt hauler Dale Carter’s decision to run this year for the Clay Board of County Commissioners was met with…
July 27, 2022
Black-owned startup Laundr gets a boost in Jacksonville
Kyle Lampkin and Michael Behfar are monetizing one of the most mundane parts of adulting: doing laundry. The two childhood…
July 24, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Jacksonville Sheriff
Five candidates – four Democrats and one Republican – are vying to fill the Jacksonville sheriff’s seat, following Mike Williams’…
July 21, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Jacksonville City Council District 7, District 9
Nine candidates are vying for Jacksonville City Council in the August 23rd election, as sitting council members Reggie Gaffney and…
July 20, 2022
1-in-3 Duval mail-ballot voters are ineligible to vote unless they update their IDs. See where they live
With less than five weeks remaining until the August primaries, a third of the 97,999 Duval voters who requested vote-by-mail…
July 14, 2022
Citizen scientists help map the heat in Jacksonville
Extreme heat is the deadliest form of hazardous weather and Jacksonville will soon have data showing how the city is…
July 11, 2022
City, nonprofits offer help for homebuyers in Northwest Jacksonville
Cheri Randolph is a homebody. She prefers cooking a meal for her boys and the other mundane activities that turn…
July 10, 2022
Another LGBTQ resource disappears in Duval Schools
Duval County Public Schools has taken down a 12-minute anti-bullying video that taught middle and high school students how to…
June 29, 2022
Florida’s most controversial new laws take effect Friday. Here’s what they mean for Northeast Fla.
Almost 150 new laws will take effect in Florida on Friday, including some that opponents are still trying to stop:…
June 27, 2022
Black labor fuels Jacksonville’s maritime industry
JAXPORT is on pace for another record-setting year in container volume, a volume that would not be possible without its…
June 20, 2022
From Green Cove Springs to D.C.: Congressional Black Caucus executive director has local roots
A Jax Today Q&A with Vince Evans Vince Evans stood against a wall, listening and nodding as Rep. Sheila Jackson…
June 15, 2022
More than a third of Jacksonville Sheriff’s officers don’t live in Duval County
Jacksonville’s recently resigned sheriff, Mike Williams, isn’t the only one who was policing the county while living somewhere else. Data…
June 12, 2022
To fight violent crime, Jacksonville offering Rise Up grants for nonprofits
Shontae Jackson does not need to be told how devastating it can be when a family member’s life is shockingly…
June 6, 2022
Jacksonville’s Small Business Equity Fund is stimulus for overlooked companies
Dara Davis started All Construction Group, a company she operates out of her home on Jacksonville’s Northside, in March of…
June 1, 2022
Local leaders respond to Sheriff Mike Williams’ move out of Jacksonville
Jacksonville’s office of general counsel is set to weigh in by 2 p.m. Thursday on whether Sheriff Mike Williams should…
May 26, 2022
Former Jax area Wells Fargo SVP says he was fired for objecting to fake interviews for non-white candidates
A Jax Today Q&A with Joe Bruno Joe Bruno, a former executive at Wells Fargo, claimed this month in The…
May 24, 2022
#AskJAXTDY | Why doesn’t Florida have rent control?
The Jacksonville Today team is answering your housing questions, as rents in the region have climbed by more than twice…
May 17, 2022
What Duval Schools is cutting from its LGBTQ+ Support Guide
In response to Florida’s new, critic-dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” law, Duval County Public Schools plans to slash the district’s decade-old…
May 17, 2022
Some Black groups say they were left out of Jacksonville’s bicentennial, so they’re holding their own events instead
Celebrating the city’s two centuries of history – warts and all – was the challenge the Jacksonville Historical Society was…
May 16, 2022
‘It all boils down to one paragraph.’ Duval Schools could change its LGBTQ support guide Tuesday
The Duval County School Board is set to meet Tuesday morning to discuss an update to its LGBTQ support guide,…