As forecast, rain has fallen across our area this morning and we have more on the way over the next few days! The good news is the rainfall is very beneficial, but is it enough to get our area out of the drought?

The cost of living in Florida has accelerated at nearly five times its previous pace over the last decade, driven largely by housing, insurance and rent increases that are outstripping wages and forcing some residents to consider leaving the state.

Environmental groups have asked a federal appellate court panel to lift its temporary halt on closing an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.

Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman could lose his job Tuesday night.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that people and capital are moving to Florida in unprecedented numbers, driven by the state’s policies and by proposals in other states that he called punitive to wealth creators.

The City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program will host a public meeting to discuss a grant-funded project to develop an exhibit about Lincolnville’s historically segregated Black schools.

The Artemis II astronauts are now forever intertwined with Apollo 8.

American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week, has been released.

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

St. Johns County officials said the CR 210 and CR 2209 intersection is experiencing significant congestion due to rapid residential and commercial growth, and the county, in partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation, is proposing major changes to address it.

Activist investor Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management is offering to purchase Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny’s music label, Universal Music Group, in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $64 billion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is proposing a pause in attacks on energy infrastructure over the Orthodox Easter holiday next weekend.

A Jacksonville single mother says she was hit with a $2,000 debt collection notice after leaving an apartment she describes as overrun with roaches — even though she says property management told her she owed nothing for breaking her lease.

It’s been one year since a 31-year-old Duval County inmate was hospitalized following an unspecified “incident” involving nine corrections officers, who were later reassigned to different positions. Now Charles Faggart’s family is taking their fight for answers to Duval County court.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has maintained his innocence on conspiracy charges in an appeal hearing in Paris.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a Missing Child Alert early Tuesday morning for a 15-year-old from Orange Park.

Turkish officials say that gunmen attacked police outside a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul.

The British government has blocked the rapper formerly known as Kanye West from entering the U.K. as the controversy over his antisemitic statements led to calls for planned headline performances at a major music festival to be canceled.

Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Cheryl Ladd have reunited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Charlie's Angels."

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says he is in Hungary to support Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reelection bid.