Sydney Boles

The Orange Crush music festival has been billed as a Jacksonville Beaches event, but mayors in Atlantic, Neptune and Jacksonville beaches say their cities have not issued any event permits related to the festival.

A novel program at UF Health Jacksonville is making healthy food a part of the treatment plan. 

Florida’s new history curriculum standards banning critical race theory in public school classrooms won’t have any impact on Duval County’s curricula, according to a spokesperson for the county school board. 

At its meeting in Jacksonville, the Florida State Board of Education approved a controversial rule Thursday banning teachers from indoctrinating or persuading students. 

The State Board of Education is set to meet in Jacksonville Thursday to discuss, among other things, a controversial change to Florida’s history curriculum that critics say would make it difficult for teachers to accurately discuss slavery and the genocide of Native people. 

The number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized at UF Health Jacksonville is the lowest it's been since last spring. 

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority is expanding its mobile COVID vaccine program, Wellness on Wheels. 

On March 14, 2021, a cargo ship called the Bridgeport departed Guayama, Puerto Rico, bound for a private port in Jacksonville. 

After dueling protests mounted outside the district administration building, the Duval County School Board voted Tuesday night to change the names of six schools named for Confederate generals. 

The Jacksonville Symphony has received a $1 million gift from the Michael Ward and Jennifer Glock Foundation. 

Leading financial services firm Dun & Bradstreet is opening a new office in Jacksonville and plans to designate the city as its corporate headquarters. The move is expected to create about 500 jobs over the course of five years, the company announced Thursday alongside Mayor Lenny Curry. 

Students, alumni and community members of six Duval County schools want to change their names, and three schools’ communities want to keep their names. Those are the result of Wednesday’s ballot tallies at the county Supervisor of Elections Office.

Robert E. Lee High School teacher Amy Donofrio — removed from her classroom in March after she refused to take down a Black Lives Matter flag from outside her classroom — said she believed she’d been ultimately fired based on a speech last week by state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. 

State Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said in a recent address that a Duval County Public Schools teacher has been fired after displaying Black Lives Matter flags.

A grievance committee of the Duval County Democratic Party is recommending the party remove its chairman after an internal investigation found he violated local and state Democratic Party bylaws. 

The Jacksonville City Council is considering amendments to the 6-cent gas tax increase proposal, which would be used to fund infrastructure projects across the city.

Florida Coastal School of Law (Coastal Law) in Jacksonville has been dealt a major blow by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE)’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) office, which announced Thursday the law school’s application for reinstatement of student federal aid programs has been denied.

The Duval County Democratic Party has said it will reveal the results of a corruption investigation into party chair Daniel Henry later this month. 

The Jacksonville City Council listened as people spoke out Tuesday night during public comments on a proposed 6-cent gas tax hike.

The Jacksonville City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday night and plans to discuss the local gas tax hike proposal. That’s the six-cent-per-gallon tax the city could levy to fund infrastructure projects.