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

Sewage sludge leads to algae blooms down river in North and Central Florida.

Hundreds of boats and thousands of boaters attended 2023's Skip Day at Clay County's Bayard Point. | News4Jax

A mating pod of manatees in the mainstream of the St. Johns River near Mandarin Point. | Gerard Pinto, Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute

Oysters could be a key to revitalizing and restoring the Trout River. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Volunteers clean a Jacksonville beachfront during a recent St. Johns River Celebration. | City of Jacksonville

A largemouth bass is shown near eel grass in the St. Johns River. | St. Johns Riverkeeper

Jacksonville University hosted a mayoral debate between the seven candidates vying for election this spring. They were placed in alphabetical order: Omega Allen, LeAnna Cumber, Daniel Davis, Donna Deegan, Al Ferraro, Audrey Gibson and Frank Keasler. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

A 2016 algae bloom at Doctors Lake. Credit: Dr. Gerry Pinto, Jacksonville University

The Jacksonville Beach pier from an aerial perspective. | Helena Karst