Library building and design experts Aaron Cohen Associates will unveil a study into the future of five branches.

A fire ripped through the restaurant in Middleburg on Wednesday night, causing serious damage.

The Carter development team from Atlanta wants to build a high-rise with more than 330 apartments and a 550-space parking garage, along with other retail and restaurants.

The utility is paying more for the natural gas that fuels power plants. The cost should drop in March, JEA says.

Callers may claim you missed jury duty and must make immediate payment to avoid penalties. Don't fall for it.

Most local governments, including Atlantic Beach and Jacksonville Beach, have been able to deal with the tight labor market while keeping curbside recycling. Jacksonville is among 10 Florida cities and counties that previously had curbside recycling but aren't doing it now

Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook described a treehouse at the site as a "haven for drug users."

The site at 10080 Beach Blvd. opened Tuesday, but no appointments were available until two days later. Meanwhile, cases of COVID-19 are skyrocketing across Florida.

Brent Brown withheld payroll taxes from employees at four Latitude 360 centers across the country, but he never paid the IRS, according to a newly unsealed indictment.

Duval's election supervisor has mailed out more than 85,000 ballots so far for the City Council at-large group 3 runoff election Feb. 22.

A bill that would carry out Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to end the Florida Standards Assessments received unanimous approval Tuesday in its first Senate committee.

Gov. Ron DeSantis largely stuck to priorities that he has outlined in recent weeks, such as providing a $1 billion gas tax break to motorists, boosting pay and providing bonuses for teachers, revamping elections laws and being a “law and order state.”

Thousands of kids in Florida are testing positive for the coronavirus. Doctors say hospitals are seeing about as many patients as they did during the delta surge.

Florida Education Association president Andrew Spar says a "massive exodus" of teachers is contributing to the shortage.

Separately, between 800,000 and 1 million tests expired while in storage. Florida is seeking federal permission to use the tests anyway.

A Florida lawmaker would let districts install cameras to record the entire room. Parents, staff, police and child-welfare authorities would have access.

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity on Tuesday announced that a formula used to determine the maximum number of weeks of benefits will revert from a pandemic-boosted 19 weeks to 12 weeks.

People who are fired from educational institutions and governmental entities for refusing a vaccine will still be eligible for unemployment benefits.

Here are 10 of DeSantis’ priorities — big and small — for the session, which will start Jan. 11:

The League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights Florida and a number of other groups filed a series of lawsuits challenging the measure (SB 90), passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature this spring as part of GOP leaders’ nationwide attempts to make it more difficult for people to vote by mail.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to combat the rise in gun violence by reinstating a controversial plainclothes police unit. Past complaints included racial profiling and excessive force.

Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been facing pushback at home. It all escalated with national groups threatening not to support her over her voting rights and filibuster stances.

The Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday. Festival goers can expect Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut, a docuseries about comedian Bill Cosby and a number of films about reproductive rights.

While the U.S. sounds the alarm about the threat to Ukraine posed by tens of thousands of Russian troops on the border, Russia says it is NATO's military build-up that's stoking tensions.

The FBI and the Texas rabbi who was held hostage are meeting with synagogues to discuss how to protect themselves, as they strain to balance the need for security with their mission to welcome all.

One year ago, President Biden took the oath of office, with beating COVID at the top of his agenda. Managing the uncertainty of what comes next remains the greatest challenge of his presidency.

The larvae of a type of bark beetle can perform acrobatic flips, somersaulting their bodies through the air. They join maggots and other larvae in their athletic abilities.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with ex football player and sexual assault survivor Jon Vaughn about the University of Michigan's settlement over allegations of abuse by a former sports doctor.

She will oversee the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., as well as the George Gustav Heye Center in Lower Manhattan and the Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Md.

In the Philippine capital Manila, people without proof of full vaccination or a work exemption can't take public transportation. Human rights activists say the policy discriminates against the poor.