Protesters join Metro Gardens Association President Lydia Bell, right, on Friday, June 27, 2025, at the federal courthouse in Jacksonville. The group is seeking an injunction to stop a medical examiner's office from opening in their Brentwood community. | Michelle Corum, Jacksonville Today

Sizemore’s Coastal Kitchen is at 333 First St. N., in the former Salt Jax Beach space. | Jacksonville Daily Record

Edmund D. Fountain, Tampa Bay Times, file pool photo

Florida's State Play, Cross and Sword, debuted 60 years ago in 1965. This performance took place in 1967. | Jacksonville Public Library

Jacksonville City Hall. | Jacksonville Daily Record

Recently opened businesses, like Blue Hen Cafe, dot West King Street, the main commercial thoroughfare of the West City neighborhood in St. Augustine. | Noah Hertz, Jacksonville Today

An illustration shows the mixed-use building Corner Lot plans to build at 102 Sixth Ave. N. in the Town Center district of Jacksonville Beach. It is across the street from the Casa Marina Hotel. | Jacksonville Daily Record

EnClave at WGV calls for 52 townhomes to start with, and 16 of those would be reserved for workforce housing. | News4Jax

A Rivian service and demo center. The company plans to open one in the IGP/I-95 Logistics Park at 3405B International Golf Parkway in St. Johns County. | Jacksonville Daily Record

Johna Daniels, grants and project officer for the Early Learning Coalition of Duval, says federal funding cuts will have an effect on the organization. The coalition serves nearly 17,000 children from low-income families in Jacksonville. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

The new University of Florida campus in Jacksonville will include the Florida Semiconductor Institute.

Mayor Donna Deegan, left, listens as Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Chief Keith Powers speaks during a news conference Nov. 30, 2023. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

The entrance to Camp Blanding. | Google Maps

Seven Bridges Grille & Brewery in Tinseltown permanently closed Monday, June 23. | Jacksonville Daily Record

On Sunday, June 22, Betty Osceola called on Love The Everglades Movement and Friends of the Everglades along with other locals to protest a proposed immigrant detention center inside Big Cypress National Preserve. | Andrea Melendez, WGCU

Mayor Donna Deegan speaks to reporters about her veto of a local immigration bill Tuesday at City Hall. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today.

Appellate attorney Bob Norgard shows Charles Jones the affidavit he signed last week admitting that he lied on the witness stand in Michael Bell’s 1995 trial. | News4Jax

Willy Cooper Sr. and Lisa Lewis at the Pinehurst and San Sebastián cemeteries | Kaia Wright, Jacksonville Today

A fire engine, rescue unit and tanker are housed in Fire Station 76 near the Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park. | Eric Prosswimmer/JFRD

Burrito Gallery closed in Brooklyn on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. | Rachel Corum

JEA headquarters is at 225 N. Pearl St. | Jacksonville Daily Record

A grand opening for the Lifesouth Community Blood center on Baymeadows Way is held in July 2018 in Jacksonville. Photo courtesy of Lifesouth

St. Augustine officials hope nights are quieter under a new noise ordinance passed on June 23, 2025. | Vicki Palombo Kirby

Jaxport CEO Eric Green celebrates harbor deepening on May 23, 2022. Green has received a five-year contract extension from the port authority board. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today