Two Lake City men were sentenced to long federal terms after authorities recovered multiple kilograms of near‑pure meth and cash during traffic stops and a home search.

Google has filed with the EPA to test Wolbachia‑treated male mosquitoes in Florida, proposing 16M releases per year for two years to cut disease‑carrying populations.

A St. Johns County man received a 15-year sentence after a jury convicted him of holding his wife and son at gunpoint and assaulting his wife. Prosecutors say the attack lasted more than an hour.

UNF’s new Perry Weather Heat Lab will simulate extreme-heat conditions to test wearables, nutrition and protocols aimed at reducing preventable heat deaths among athletes, military and outdoor workers.

Showers and thunderstorms are likely Saturday with heavy downpours and localized street flooding possible.

Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Ricky Dixon is retiring after about 30 years of state service, the agency said Friday.

RentCafe’s 2026 study put Ponte Vedra’s 32081 (which covers Nocatee) among America’s newest neighborhoods after housing units nearly quintupled in a decade.

Sen. Rick Scott met with Jacksonville rabbis at Etz Chaim to discuss security as antisemitic incidents surge nationally. He highlighted long‑term increases and is pushing a campus‑accountability bill.

The brother of A.J. Laguerre Jr. says he has reached a settlement tied to the 2023 Dollar General shooting and will dismiss his wrongful‑death suit once paperwork is final. The deal is the first announced resolution from families who sued after the racially motivated attack.

A wrong-way pickup struck an SUV on J. Turner Butler Boulevard Thursday night, killing two Ponte Vedra Beach residents and seriously injuring two others.

Deputies searched a Keystone Heights neighborhood Friday after a man fled a traffic stop; the local junior/senior high was briefly secured before the suspect was arrested.

Chipotle will open a West Jacksonville location at 7952 Normandy Blvd. on June 2, featuring a Chipotlane drive‑thru and roughly 30 jobs for the neighborhood.

Free concerts, contests and a record-setting fireworks show will light up downtown Jacksonville on July 3–4 for America’s 250th.