More than 50 volunteers filled sandbags and delivered them to residents on Ken Knight Drive — an area inundated during Hurricane Irma — to protect the neighborhood from Hurricane Ian.

After passing Northeast Florida, Ian is turning north toward South Carolina.

Lawmakers signed off on a $500 million Capital Improvement Plan and increased funding for JAX Chamber.

Hurricane Ian is forecast to make landfall along the southwest Florida Coast on Wednesday as a major hurricane and then track toward Northeast Florida.

Evacuation shelters will open Wednesday in most areas. Some accept pets.

Free sandbags are available in most counties to hold off the rising waters of Hurricane Ian. But not in Jacksonville.

Much of Jacksonville's beach communities and St. Augustine could flood, along with low-lying neighborhoods near the St. Johns River like Downtown, San Marco and Riverside.

Hurricane Ian is expected to affect the Jacksonville area beginning late Wednesday, with the bulk of the storm sweeping through Thursday.

Duval, St. Johns, Nassau and Clay counties announced Tuesday that they will close this week. Baker and Putnam counties announced earlier that they would close.

Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has issued an emergency order that will temporarily prevent property insurers from dropping customers for the next two months.

Ian remains forecasted to parallel the Gulf Coast before making landfall with the Sun Coast Thursday. Tornado risk increases from I-4 south today.

Gullah/Geechee community members warn historic burial sites are at risk in Rayonier-owned logging land in Nassau County. Rayonier has yet to share a clear plan for protecting the sacred sites in their development plans for the area.

State regulators Friday asked a judge to place a property-insurance company in receivership, making it the sixth Florida property insurer declared insolvent this year amid widespread financial problems in the industry.

Political action committees with backing from GOP donors contributed money to local school board races in several states, including Florida.

Ian is expected to continue rapidly strengthening. Landfall possible from the Big Bend to Sun Coast during the middle to end of the week.

Tropical Storm Ian still on track to be a major hurricane and impact Florida

Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-North Miami Beach, filed the lawsuit in Leon County circuit court, alleging violations of the state Constitution and a separate law.

Spaghetti models are a combination of different model ensembles. It shows the different paths a storm may take, but neither is it a crystal ball. A spaghetti model does not forecast a storm’s strength or potential impact. They are a simple way of communicating where a storm may travel given the data available at the time. Generally, they are used by meteorologists to give a geographical range to the public.

Although it is too early for an accurate forecast, the National Hurricane Center's latest model for Tropical Depression Nine - which formed in the Caribbean this morning - has South Florida in the storm's path, with possible impact between Tuesday and Wednesday.

In Manatee County, Hurricane Ian spared residents in that part of Florida from severe devastation. The storm did knock out power to scores of people and the wind knocked down trees

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Tracy McMillion, Fort Myers' fire chief, about the city being hit especially hard by Hurricane Ian, which caused catastrophic flooding and destroyed countless homes.

Officials said at least two gunmen were targeting a specific person and that they are still working to determine what touched off the shooting. It comes amid a surge in violence across the city.

A new law makes it easier for people to sue the government for illnesses from contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. The legal action could become one of the largest mass civil cases in history.

When Hurricane Ian slammed into Fort Myers, Fla., it left a trail of destruction from high winds and storm surge flooding. As people get back into their communities, they're deciding what's next.

Now that Hurricane Ian has moved on, Floridians are assessing damage. Moscow is officially annexing four Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine. Two ideological opposites aim to be Brazil's president.

Part of Nick Underwood's job is flying through hurricanes to collect data for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He's been doing that for six years and says Ian was especially rough.

Former eBay Inc. executives were sentenced Thursday to prison for a scheme to terrorize the creators of an online newsletter that included sending live spiders, cockroaches, a funeral wreath.

The vast majority of Florida's public school districts closed at least one day this week as the storm made its way across the state.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Cameron Lew of the band Ginger Root about his new EP Nisemono and the vintage Japanese pop that inspires his sound.