Clay County is in the process of approving the rezoning and construction of two new buildings at Oakleaf Junior High and Lake Asbury Junior High. They will be the first two junior high schools in the county to accommodate 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.

The general election is only three days away, and in Northeast Florida, early voting has ended in eight counties, including Baker, Clay, Columbia, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns, and Union counties.

A new list ranking the top school districts in Florida featured St. Johns, Clay and Nassau counties in the Top 10.

2024 primary results for local races in Clay County.

2024 primary election results for Duval County races

2024 primary election results for local races in Nassau County

There is no incumbent on the ballot this year in Florida House District 20, which covers Putnam County and parts of Clay, St. Johns, and Marion counties. Republican Bobby Payne can’t seek re-election, due to term limits.

Showers and storms are on the move, stronger across SE GA

High school football season in Florida begins in less than a month. News4JAX has you covered. Here are the team-by-team schedules for schools in the North Florida coverage region.

Evening storms will linger until midnight with steamy muggy temps in the 80s.

Locally heavy rainfall possible overnight and early Wednesday

Rounds of Storms will Wrap up the Week

Clay is the area’s lone flag football team still standing entering the fourth round of the state playoffs.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through April 25 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through April 18 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through April 11 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through April 4 games.

The News4JAX flag football team will be published Wednesday’s throughout the regular season. Records are through April 2 games.

Today is a Weather Authority Alert Day as strong and severe storms are expected to impact parts of Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through March 28 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through March 21 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through March 7 games.

Chilly under sunny skies today, then round two of freezing temperatures overnight.

Models have backed off on rain for Christmas Eve and put it all on Christmas Day and Tuesday.

The big weather story is the Gulf low that will track over our area on Saturday. Plan on all-day rain.

The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) on Monday released school grades for the 2022-23 school year.

Temps will reach the lower 30s to the upper 20s across inland SE GA and the Suwannee Valley.

The George Ralph Eldridge Way of life (GRE WAY), is focused on positive reinforcement for behavior health challenges, reading comprehension, and community outreach. We are servicing 3 counties this year, for the first time (Saint Johns, Duval, and Clay).

Happy Saturday! Lows this morning will be muggy, in the upper 60s and 70s region wide.Highs will in the low to mid 80s area wide. Rain and storm chances are possible early across St. Johns, Clay and Putnam Counties then turning widespread in our southern counties into the afternoon near the coast and inland. Most of us staying dry. Breezy conditions continue with a NE wind between 10-20 gusting up to 30 mph causing a high rip current risk across our local beaches.SUNDAY: Overnight lows will be muggy around the mid-70s. Early morning isolated storms are possible in St. Johns County then conditions drying out for most locations with isolated (20%) storm chances across our southern counties. Highs in the low to mid 80s region wide.Rest of the week: Minimal storm chances stay in the forecast with highs in the mid to upper 80s.Sunrise: 7:19 AMSunset 7:13 PM

The Jacksonville Jaguars are continuing to host community huddles this week to answer questions about planned stadium renovations.

The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for downtown Jacksonville as scattered storms and heavy downpours move across Northeast Florida.

Happy plants and slightly cooler temperatures

Multiple school districts in Northeast Florida counties announced that they are closing this week due to the expected impact of Tropical Storm Idalia.

Sweltering Saturday, Sunday too

Dozens of volunteers with Changing Homelessness and other groups will collect valuable data on the homeless population in Duval, Clay and Nassau Counties this week. The counting will start on Tuesday and go until Thursday.

Scattered storms continue, Drier and hotter days ahead

Locally heavy showers, storms exit the beaches...for now

The suspected leader of a child sex trafficking ring that was operating in Clay and Pasco counties is now in jail.

Baker County, Bishop Kenny, Clay, Providence and St. Johns Country Day all won their second-round games on Friday night and are headed to next week’s regional finals.

The Clay softball team went on the road and pulled a massive upset in the opening round of the high school softball playoffs on Thursday night.

Nearly two dozen area high school baseball teams are playoff bound.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through April 27 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 26 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published each Friday during the regular season. Records are through April 13 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 12 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 flag football rankings will be published each Wednesday through the regular season. Records are through April 11.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 5 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 flag football rankings will be published each Wednesday through the regular season. Records are through April 4.

State Attorney Melissa Nelson explained the challenges and opportunities of enforcing the law in District 4, which includes Duval, Nassau and Clay counties to a local philanthropy group Monday.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through March 22 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through March 22 games.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida Shines

It was a successful state tournament weekend for a slew of girls high school weightlifters.

In addition to the potential for isolated severe storms today, you will feel an increase in winds.

Trash pickup will resume in Duval, Clay and St. Johns counties on Monday.

We'll be updating this article as we learn more about power outages across our viewing area.

Jacksonville is just on the edge of Ian’s wrath.

Rulings from six North Florida judicial circuits, including the Fourth Circuit (Clay, Duval and Nassau counties) and the Eight Circuit (Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist Levy and Union counties), are appealed to the First District Court of Appeals.

The National Weather Service on Friday issued a tornado warning for Bradford, Clay and Duval counties until 9:45 p.m.

News4JAX wants to see pictures of your student’s first day of school!

We know the first day of school comes with a lot of questions about transportation.

Showers with isolated thunderstorms continue across central St. Johns county.  These will slowly push north as they weaken.  Showers will be possible over Clay, Putnam and southern Duval through around 2 p.m.  Near seasonal afternoon highs with increasing rain and storm coverage this week.

Clay County School leaders are pushing to keep a property tax increase in place to fund added school security.

Clay’s stunning run in the softball state semifinals ended on Thursday morning.

Thursday is a big day for Clay County high school softball as both Clay High and Middleburg High School will play in separate State Final Four games.

The high school softball state semifinals begin Tuesday in Clermont. A glance at Class 2A state semifinalist University Christian.

Clay and University Christian punched their tickets to the softball state semifinals on Friday night.

The high school softball state playoffs are spread over two nights this week, with state semifinal berths on the line.

Eight area softball teams, half of those from Clay County, are heading on to the third round of the state playoffs.

A glance at first-round action in the high school softball state playoffs on Wednesday night.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Monday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 24 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 baseball rankings will be published each Tuesday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 18 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Monday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 10 games.

A powerful cold front will blow through mid-morning Saturday and with it comes the potential for brief and intense downpours. The threat is less on the rain amounts and more on the intensity or severity of the storms.

Four area girls wrestlers and one local boys grappler brought home state championships in Kissimmee.

Bradford, Clay and Suwannee reeled in girls weightlifting team state championships, while individual lifters won 18 titles in Port St. Joe, including Bradford’s record-setting Mahailya Reeves.

Four area high school competitive cheerleading teams captured state championships, including repeat titles for three of them.

It’s only fitting a county rivalry should come down to a few inches and a last second decision to jump.

First impressions are important, and that’s why Clay County officials say they are rolling out a new initiative to improve the infrastructure of Wells Road, which is a popular thoroughfare into the county.

Maybe the best part of Friday will be the Gaughan Gauge, it will be a “9”, nice!

The high school football is in full swing and News4Jax has you covered. The Super 10 rankings will be a fixture on Tuesday’s during the regular season.

High school football season begins this week in Florida. A glance at four of the top games in the area this week.

Isolated radar reports of possible severe storms earlier in Clay and Alachua counties, these have faded with the next area to watch will be along the Clay/Putnam county line, this threat will be there until 4:30 p.m.

COVID-19 precautions are being tightened at some courthouses across Northeast Florida because of the latest spike in cases.

It’s a stormy evening in Northeast Florida.

Wednesday afternoon was rolling along with hazy sunny skies and very warm temperatures. Seemingly, a quiet finish to this summer day. Boom! Not-so-fast! Storms rapidly developed later in the evening hours, two bands, the bigger band, Clay and St. Johns counties. The quieter but unrelenting band started near and west of Brunswick Georgia. Over the course of six hours, it kept percolating southward, reaching the Jacksonville area just before midnight.

A Flood Warning has been issued for parts of Clay, Duval and St. Johns County until 4:30 p.m. Watch for local waterways, creeks & streams that you know flood easily.

Qualifying for the Team USA swimming team picks back up Sunday and quite a few local swimmers will be in the mix.

Storms are developing west of the St. Johns river but expect the majority to affect jst a few areas and remain brief. Clay and western Duval will see the rain track into Baker county this afternoon.

A sting called Operation Guardian set up by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and other agencies to lure men looking for sex with juveniles netted 12 arrests, and more are expected, Sheriff John Rutherford announced Friday morning. Law enforcement personnel from Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, Clay and St. Johns County, Gainesville, Daytona Beach and other agencies set up fake social media accounts and posted messages as if they were minors and waited for men to contact them.

Happy Fri-YAY! We are in for another toasty day with highs in the mid to low 90s, sunny skies and winds west 5-10 mph.

The first night of high school playoff softball is in the books.

It was a very good weekend for boys high school weightlifters from the area, especially from Clay County.

High school baseball season is back and so are our Super 6 rankings. They’ll be published every Thursday during the regular season. District tournaments begin Monday so this is the final ranking of the season. Records are through April 20 games.

High school baseball season is back and so are our Super 6 rankings. They’ll be published every Thursday during the regular season. Records are through April 13 games.

High school softball season is in full swing and so are our News4Jax Super 6 rankings. They will be published every Wednesday during the regular season. Records are through April 13.

High school softball season is in full swing and so are our News4Jax Super 6 rankings. They will be published every Wednesday during the regular season. Records are through April 6.

High school baseball season is back and so are our Super 6 rankings. They’ll be published every Thursday during the regular season.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – High school softball season is in full swing and so are our News4Jax Super 6 rankings. (1) Oakleaf (11-1, Class 7A)Notable wins: Clay, Creekside, East Ridge, Episcopal, Gainesville, Keystone Heights, Providence, Ridgeview. (2) Ridgeview (13-3, Class 4A)Notable wins: Bartram Trail, Clay, Episcopal, Fletcher, Keystone Heights, Oakleaf, Paxon, West Nassau (twice). (5) Episcopal (8-4, Class 3A)Notable wins: Clay, Fletcher, Middleburg, Paxon, West Nassau. To cap their 2-0 Super 6 week West Nassau beat a solid Providence squad 8-2.