Florida has been among the 25 states that have restricted access to gender-affirming care for minors, and one of six that made it a felony to provide such care to minors. | Nadzeya, Stock.Adobe.Com

Incoming Superintendent Chris Bernier appears at a community meeting at Stanton Prep on June 12. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

A new type of loan scam targets sailors on the First Coast. l Rodion Kutsaiev, Unsplash.

School library books, like these at R.L. Brown Gifted and Talented Academy in Jacksonville, remain a controversial issue in Florida. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office confiscated $400,000 in cash, gambling machines and drug paraphernalia at a store in Hastings. | St. Johns County Sheriff's Office

Sean Mason performs Sunday at the Ritz Theatre | Sean Mason via Instagram

A sign points to an open house in Fleming Island. | Randy Roguski, Jacksonville Today

A band performs at River Jams in 2023 | Jax River Jams

Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference May 9, 2023, to sign several education bills and increases in teacher pay. | Rebecca Blackwell, AP

Pat McCullough served in the U.S. Marine Corps before working in politics and serving as the city of Jacksonville's special assistant to the mayor on civic engagement and youth participation. She is shown marching during the city's Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11, 2023. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

This fenced-in lot on 1st Street North will be reopned to parking in Jacksonville Beach. | Google

The Bryan Simpson U.S. Courthouse in Downtown Jacksonville. | Charlie McGee, The Tributary

The Jacksonville Jaguars are proposing a $1.4 billion renovation of EveryBank Stadium. | Jacksonville Jaguars

More than 100 firefighters battled this fire Jan. 29, 2024, at the Rise Doro apartments. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville firefighters have reached a tentative contract agreeement.

University of North Florida history student Shawn Steiner meticulously sorts through a 1,000-year-old Timucua midden mound, looking for pottery shards and other artifacts at a dig site within the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

The Baker County Sheriff's Office

Rosalyn Mixon Phillips is the chapter president of the Gamma Rho Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She is the leader of Jacksonville-based chapter that has more than 400 members. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

The Duval Schools administration building. | Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

The St. Johns Cultural Council recognized Purcell Conway and Shed Dawson for their participation in the St. Augustine Beach wade-ins in June 1964. Their efforts to integrate a whites-only beach was part of a series of demonstrations during Freedom Summer. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today