Beth Reese Cravey - Florida Times-Union

Seventy-one percent of the people in an annual homeless count were experiencing homelessness for the first time — often because they couldn't afford their rent.

The $8 million children's garden would be the first phase of a new master plan for the Jacksonville Arboretum & Botanical Gardens.

Lessons learned in a Mayo Clinic study could lead to treatment or even a cure for Alzheimer's.

At the "strong urging" of the state Department of Education, the school district says it will no longer participate in the federal CDC Youth Risk Behavioral Survey.

Changing Homelessness, the lead homeless prevention agency for Clay, Duval and Nassau counties, is seeking volunteers for an annual federally mandated survey of unsheltered people in the three counties.

Jacksonville-based Changing Homelessness has received a $2.5 million grant — the largest in the agency's nearly 50-year history of serving struggling families in Duval and Nassau counties — from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Day 1 Families Fund.

A survey commissioned by the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida found that nonprofits are the most trusted institution after individual volunteers and the military.

The Jacksonville city councilman said he needs to focus on his reelection campaign and his burgeoning career in the Florida National Guard.

Animal shelters have been full for months on end — frequently over capacity — and begging for adoptions, foster families and donations.

Nurse practitioner Jamie Neal and husband Derek Neal say Life Tree Women Care is the only clinic of its kind in Northeast Florida — providing "culturally competent" health care.