lifeguards

Jacksonville Beach voters won’t get to decide on the future of the Volunteer Life Saving Corps after a judge ruled that a ballot statement for the November referendum was “deceptive and misleading.”

A judge has ruled that the city must put a referendum on the ballot to decide whether volunteer lifeguards can go back to work.

Voters in Jacksonville Beach will not be voting at the city's next election to determine the fate of the Volunteer Life Saving Corps, which has patrolled the beach there since 1912.

The guards have been locked out of the Jacksonville Beach lifeguard station in a long-running conflict with the city.

The city says it no longer needs the Volunteer Life Saving Corps. Paid lifeguards will take over Sundays and holidays as well as Mondays through Saturdays.

If you’re heading to the beach, look out for dangerous rip currents this week as Hurricane Larry lumbers by the North Florida coast in the Atlantic. All…

Several Beach rescue agencies, including the Coast Guard, Jacksonville Beach and Atlantic Beach Ocean Rescue, and Lifeguards Without Borders will perform…