LOCAL NEWS

Problems with trash pickup are making it harder for thousands of people around Northeast Florida to go green with curbside recycling.

Happy Fri-yay, we finally made it to the end of the workweek!

A bill to establish a national prisoner of war and missing in action memorial and museum in Jacksonville was just reintroduced by U.S. Reps. John Rutherford (R-Jacksonville) and Al Lawson (D-Tallahassee) reintroduced a bill that would designate a POW/MIA memorial and museum at Cecil Field to honor all former prisoners of war and those still considered missing in action.

A section of Moody Avenue in Clay County was designated as Mary Helen Hoff Memorial Avenue in honor of the woman behind the POW/MIA flag.

The senior class and his basketball team held a memorial ceremony at the school Friday for the “caring, compassionate, genuine” teen who was killed over the weekend in a hit-and-run near Murray Hill.

The city of St. Augustine Beach will temporarily suspend recycling services for residential customers in early October.

Three local restaurants are back open after failing health inspections, but two of the owners told News4Jax they don't feel like they got a fair shake.

Alcohol will be banned on St. Simons Island beaches during the weekend of the Florida-Georgia football game this year, according to Glynn County officials.

A child was hit by a car Friday morning on Losco Road at Losco Junction Drive, according to Jacksonville firefighters.

Britney Garibay is using art to make a difference.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans Tuesday to get rid of the Florida Standards Assessments testing, or FSA. Those are the tests given in public schools at the end of each year.

While Florida looks to round the corner on administering 100,000 monoclonal antibody treatments to people with COVID-19, Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged Thursday to “fight like hell” to continue receiving the treatments as the federal government this week took control over distribution of the drugs.

Clay County District Schools Police Department is warning students not to participate in a new social media challenge.

Carla Wiley, who started the bogus One Door Education charity that prosecutors argued became a slush fund for former Congresswoman Corrine Brown, is now facing new charges.

Pine Island Academy, which opened this year in Nocatee, has been shaken by the deaths of two employees, including a teacher who died of COVID-19.

A 66-year-old Jacksonville man claimed a $1 million top prize from The Florida Lottery's Fastest Road to $1,000,000 Scratch-Off game.

Amid the ongoing grand jury investigation into the failed sale of JEA, the utility’s former interim chief operating officer made an appearance Thursday in federal court downtown.

Meteorological summer is over and tied as the second hottest on record across the Northern Hemisphere, according to NOAA scientists.

As gun sales spiked during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, local gun stores are not only seeing that trend continue but also a shift in who’s buying them.