Featured image for “Yulee man pleads guilty in $5.7M fraud against Swisher International”
Swisher is headquartered at 459 E. 16th St. in Jacksonville. | Jacksonville Daily Record
17 hours ago

Yulee man pleads guilty in $5.7M fraud against Swisher International

Richard Everett Camp Jr. faces up to 20 years in prison and must forfeit property and vehicles he bought.…

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Aldi Regional Vice President JR Perry at the new stor in Downtown Jacksonville, at 777 N. Market St. | Karen Brune Mathis, Jacksonville Daily Record
17 hours ago

Aldi opens Downtown store, the first of 3 new stores in coming weeks

The store replaces a Harveys Supermarket that closed a year ago to be converted to the Aldi brand.…

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Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan speaks at a town hall meeting. | Casmira Harrison, Jacksonville Today
18 hours ago

Deegan’s city budget could include record spending on police and fire

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is asking Mayor Donna Deegan for a $675.9 million budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year.…

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Men joined in the fight to prevent domestic violence at the 16th annual Stand Up & Stride Domestic Violence Awareness Walk in Jacksonville in 2025. | Hubbard House
3 days ago

Hubbard House’s new initiative helps men prevent domestic violence

Hubbard House’s Not My City program aims to help men prevent violence and become a positive influence.…

Featured image for “Hello, I’m Elizabeth Caldwell, Jax Today’s new investigative reporter”
Elizabeth Caldwell interviews a protester June 9, 2025, outside City Hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Protesters were opposing the deployment of the Marines and National Guard to Los Angeles. | Mike Simons
June 15, 2026

Hello, I’m Elizabeth Caldwell, Jax Today’s new investigative reporter

I’m a Fort Myers native who traveled to every continent on Earth before landing in Jacksonville.…

Featured image for “Bold City closing Downtown tavern but will continue to brew in Jax”
Bold City Brewery was one of the first craft breweries in Jacksonville. | Jacksonville Daily Record
June 15, 2026

Bold City closing Downtown tavern but will continue to brew in Jax

Bold City said it would move its brewing equipment to its production facility on Rosselle Street.…

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June 11, 2026

Local developers still want to buy Duval Schools’ headquarters

Three companies have submitted bids for the school district’s headquarters, which has been for sale for about a year.…

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Susan King, president and CEO of Feeding Northeast Florida, helps during the regional food bank's 2024 Thanksgiving food giveaway. | Feeding Northeast Florida
June 11, 2026

Leader of Feeding Northeast Florida announces her retirement

Susan King plans to stay on until Feeding Northeast Florida finds a replacement later this year.…

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A Jacksonville Beach Police Department vehicle. | Jacksonville Beach Police
June 10, 2026

Faulty facial recognition leads to lawsuit after Jacksonville Beach arrest

A Fort Myers man says facial recognition wrongly identified him as the person who tried to lure a child.…

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Florida's chief financial officer, Blaise Ingoglia, speaks at a news conference in Jacksonville Beach on Monday, June 8, 2026. | News4Jax
June 8, 2026

State CFO attacks Jacksonville spending; city calls the criticism politics

Appearing in Jacksonville Beach, CFO Blaise Ingoglia said Jacksonville wasted $275.7 million in its current budget…

Featured image for “Pecan Park Flea Market will close in September after 40 years in business”
Shopper browse at Pecan Park Flea Market. | News4Jax
June 8, 2026

Pecan Park Flea Market will close in September after 40 years in business

The Pecan Park property has been sold and will be redeveloped as an automotile dealership.…

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A meeting of the Jacksonville City Council. | City of Jacksonville
June 4, 2026

Jacksonville makes City Council legislation more accessible to the disabled

The city restored online access to City Council bills after complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act.…

Featured image for “Michelin Guide adds 8 restaurants in Northeast Florida”
Eggboy in Mayport is one of the new restaurants added to Florida's Michelin Guide. Owner Nick Presti and his team are overjoyed. "Mayport is on the map!" he says. | Nick Presti, Eggboy
May 29, 2026

Michelin Guide adds 8 restaurants in Northeast Florida

Michelin’s Florida guide expanded this year to cover the entire state, not just South and Central Florida.…

Featured image for “Nick Howland voted City Council president, Joe Carlucci VP”
Jacksonville City Council member Nick Howland was elected city council president for the 2026-27 council year. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
May 26, 2026

Nick Howland voted City Council president, Joe Carlucci VP

The incoming City Council president and vice president say they want to build consensus after a contentious year.…

Featured image for “Family pleads for water safety after 2-year-old’s drowning in 2024”
Amaya White talks about the death of her 2-year-old daughter Melani Ava Mixson, in 2024. She appeared with her attorney, Adam Finkel, on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today,
May 26, 2026

Family pleads for water safety after 2-year-old’s drowning in 2024

Melani Ava Mixson drowned after sliding down the embankment of a retention pond at her apartment complex.…

Featured image for “Gateway Jax: For Pearl Square to work, it has to be done ‘all at once’”
Gateway Jax Inc. Bryan Moll gives a tour of the nearly $1 billion Pearl Square development site on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Downtown Jacksonville. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today
May 22, 2026

Gateway Jax: For Pearl Square to work, it has to be done ‘all at once’

Gateway says the first residential building in Pearl Square could open by September as the total project cost closes in…

Featured image for “DeSantis comes to Ribault High to sign bills supporting high school coaches”
Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas joined Gov. Ron DeSantis at a bill-signing event at Jean Ribault High School on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Noah Hertz, Jacksonville Today
May 22, 2026

DeSantis comes to Ribault High to sign bills supporting high school coaches

The bills will supplement coaches’ salaries and also allow coaches to spend their own money to help players.…

Featured image for “National Eucharistic Pilgrimage launches Sunday in St. Augustine”
The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche in St. Augustine. The 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will start there Sunday. | Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine.
May 21, 2026

National Eucharistic Pilgrimage launches Sunday in St. Augustine

The pilgrimage will start at the site of the first Catholic Mass in 1565 at the founding of St. Augustine.…

Featured image for “Jacksonville Jazz Festival will ring from Downtown stages this weekend”
An act on stage at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival in 2017. | Jacksonville Jazz Festival
May 21, 2026

Jacksonville Jazz Festival will ring from Downtown stages this weekend

The Jazz Festival, founded in 1979, remains free of charge from Thursday through Sunday.…

Featured image for “New sites added to Duval’s list of endangered historic structures”
The Laura Street Trio of historic buildings at Forsyth and Laura streets in Downtown Jacksonville are shown Nov. 11, 2024. | Monty Zickuhr, Jacksonville Daily Record
May 20, 2026

New sites added to Duval’s list of endangered historic structures

Besides endangered properties, the History Center listed some that have become success stories through preservation.…

Featured image for “Southbank Residences begins construction after years of delays”
An artist's depiction shows the Southbank Residences next to Friendship Fountain in Downtown Jacksonville. | Related Group
May 20, 2026

Southbank Residences begins construction after years of delays

Southbank Residences represents the first new luxury high-rise on Jacksonville’s riverfront in over a decade.…

Featured image for “Memorial Day events fill the weekend from Jacksonville to Palatka”
A member of the Navy Band Southeast plays taps during a Memorial Day observance at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Wall. | U.S. Navy Photo by Nick Davis
May 20, 2026

Memorial Day events fill the weekend from Jacksonville to Palatka

Memorial Day weekend will include fireworks, music and remembrances of military members lost in war.…

Featured image for “Jacksonville has $13M in unspent affordable housing funding”
Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan announces the city's down payment assistance program for home ownership. Joining her March 7, 2026, are, from left, Joshua Hicks, the city's director of affordable housing; City Council member Ju'Coby Pittman; Adam Rigel, chief financial officer of JWB Real Estate Cos.; and city Housing and Community Development Chief Travis Jeffrey. They gathered in front of a house for sale in the 1400 block of 25th Street East. | David Bauerlein, Florida Times-Union
May 8, 2026

Jacksonville has $13M in unspent affordable housing funding

The city acknowledges difficulties in using all of the affordable housing money allocated through the state’s SHIP program.…

Featured image for “Florida launches maternal health initiative From the Start in Jax”
The From the Start program aims to standardize care like early pregnancy detection to improve outcomes for low-income patients. | Jessica Palombo, Jacksonville Today
May 7, 2026

Florida launches maternal health initiative From the Start in Jax

From the Start is aimed at improving outcomes for low-income moms-to-be and new moms.…