Areas where tropical systems tend to develop in September.

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

The 47-year-old Peg Leg Pete statue stands at 102 Centre St. in Fernandina Beach. | Amelia Island Tourist Development Council

Gun owners display their guns in holsters. | File image

An illustration shows the Jacksonville Jaguars' proposed "Stadium of the Future." | Jacksonville Jaguars

Robin Rothove, left, and Paula Smith demonstrate outside the Missouri Capitol as lawmakers prepare for a committee hearing to consider redrawing the state's U.S. House districts, Sept. 4, 2025. | Jeff Roberson, AP

Thea Jeffers is owner of Breezy Jazz House.

People hold their weapons as others look on during a Second Amendment gun rally at Utah State Capitol on Feb. 8, 2020, in Salt Lake City. | Rick Bowmer, AP

A sign at St. Johns Town Center still shows the Pinstripes entertainment center. | Karen Brune Mathis, Jacksonville Daily Record

A police car is parked where St. Johns County deputies shot a man to death. | News4Jax

Cosplayers wearing replica Mandalorian Beskar bounty hunter costumes pose for photos on a copy of the original Star Trek TV series bridge at last year's Ancient City Con. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

A satellite image shows the Atlantic Basin on Sept. 10, 2025, the peak of hurricane season.

Jacksonville City Council member Rory Diamond is the child of South African immigrants. The Jacksonville Immigrant Rights Alliance has accused Diamond's amendments in the city's proposed 2025-26 budget as anti-immigrant. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan is interviewed as part of the Bloomberg Originals “Power Players” documentary series on Bloomberg.com and YouTube. | Bloomberg via Jacksonville Daily Record

State Attorney Melissa Nelson | News4Jax

An attendee at a gun-rights rally open carries his gun in a holster on Jan. 18, 2019, at the Capitol in Olympia, Washington. | Ted S. Warren, AP

Members of the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee debate lowering the city’s property tax millage rate on Sept. 2, 2025, at City Hall. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today

Metropolitan Park as it looks now, from where the stage used to be. The cranes are being used to build the Four Seasons Hotel in the background. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

Aventuur, a creator of surf parks, says it partners with Wavegarden. Wavegarden designs wave generating systems and surfing lagoons. | Aventuur

The Baker Correctional Institution became Florida's second immigration detention center. | Kaley Mantz, Fresh Take Florida

Retiring Superintendent Gordon Wilson is pictured here, at middle, during his first stint working in St. Augustine in the late 1970s. | Courtesy Gordon Wilson

Jacksonville's chief health officer, Sunil Joshi, speaks in 2023 | Casmira Harrison, Jacksonville Today

Firefighters at Station 22 in Jacksonville salute as the station's flag is raised on July 31, 2024. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today