September 5, 2025
The rules are changing this year on who can get COVID-19 shots and where.…
September 3, 2025
Florida plans to end all childhood vaccine mandates
Children would no longer be required to get shots for measles, chickenpox, polio and other diseases.…
July 18, 2025
Unemployment in Northeast Florida hits post-pandemic high
The jobless rate in the Jacksonville metropolitan area rose from 3.6% in May to 4.2% in June.…
May 21, 2025
Some Duval students will have to start paying for lunch
About a quarter of Jacksonville’s schools will lose a COVID-era free-lunch benefit in September.…
February 11, 2025
COVID pushed kids outdoors. Now they’re into birdwatching.
More young birder groups are popping up for teens and tweens who enjoy getting outdoors together to gawk at wildlife.…
December 31, 2024
10 big legal cases to watch in Florida in 2025
The legal issues include a contested redistricting plan in North Florida.…
June 6, 2024
Florida justices consider UF’s COVID shutdown
A University of Florida graduate student wants a refund for services that were not provided during a COVID-19 campus shutdown…
May 20, 2024
Ponte Vedra Beach man accused of COVID PPE fraud
James Elliott Davis II was indicted on charges of enticing people to invest more than $7 million in a phony…
February 12, 2024
Remote work leaves more offices vacant Downtown
Office vacancies are the highest they’ve been since 2014 — up to 25.1% on the Northbank.…
January 5, 2024
Respiratory illnesses on the rise on First Coast
Some hospitals say they are seeing more cases of COVID-19, the flu and RSV. The trend is likely to continue…
January 4, 2024
Florida’s surgeon general calls for halt in COVID-19 vaccines
The statement from Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo contradicts recommendations from federal health agencies.…
December 5, 2023
Jacksonville man imprisoned for COVID relief fraud
Kenneth Steven Landers fradulently obtained $910,000 in COVID relief funds and used it for personal gain, including a Rolex watch…
November 21, 2023
Here’s help for low-income renters in St. Johns County
The county has launched a new program to help low-income renters cover rent and utility bills for up to 18…
August 17, 2023
Fewer tourists are coming to Florida as other states recover
The number of people traveling to Florida during the second quarter of 2023 decreased compared with a year earlier.…
May 23, 2023
Superintendent Diana Greene ends trailblazing Duval career under scrutiny
The Duval superintendent’s tenure ends amid criticism from both the political left and right, but she also won bipartisan support…
November 16, 2022
OPINION | DeSantis’ and Trump’s freedom isn’t free
Freedom. That’s the word that’s been slung like dice since campaigning began for the 2022 midterm elections. Entire narratives were…
July 11, 2022
OPINION | What will the literature of tomorrow say?
Reckoning. That is the word that’s most often applied to this time we’re living in. It began with the confluence…
January 2, 2022
OPINION | Ron DeSantis doesn’t owe you an explanation
Where was the governor at the end of 2021? Ron DeSantis stopped doing press events for the most part. His…
December 13, 2021
OPINION | When are we going to get back to normal?
My son lied to me about wearing his mask. He lied for nearly two weeks straight. I had been sending…
November 1, 2021
OPINION | Life is the goal
By next week, vaccines could be available locally for children ages 5 to 11 and the long pandemic nightmare we’ve…