Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species — and whether industry had a hand in drafting it.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said one of its officers shot and killed a man Sunday morning after he attacked his girlfriend and a police officer’s vehicle before charging at a police officer.

For six years, Gov. Ron DeSantis had a firm grasp on Florida’s legislature. In his second-to-last legislative session, that is not the case.

The Dallas Stars emerged from a seven-game series against Colorado, and the Edmonton Oilers rallied from down 2-0 to eliminate Los Angeles and move on in the NHL playoffs.

When turning the corner at Beach Boulevard and 3rd Street South, it’s hard to miss the sprawling, yellow-toned building with the beautiful veranda. The building’s exterior may differ from what some would expect for a museum, but the local treasures within are worth a visit.

Florida lawmakers late Friday approved barring students in elementary and middle schools from using cell phones during the school day — and testing the idea in high schools.

Jacksonville University College of Law marked a historic milestone as its inaugural class of 14 graduates, known as the “Fab 14,” prepares to enter the legal profession with a 100% job placement rate ahead of taking the bar exam.

The Department of Health confirmed to News4JAX on Friday that the coyote linked to a series of recent Atlantic Beach attacks did have rabies.

Showers return this weekend.

Guacamole has been spared from tariffs for now.

The father of a 2-year-old child who was accidentally shot on the Westside on Easter was arrested in connection with his son’s death. Now, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has put out a message to raise awareness about gun safety.

Florida lawmakers have given final approval to creating new hurdles for getting citizen-driven initiatives on the ballot before voters.

Florida residents can help support the K9s United mission by purchasing the official plate. The plates were designed to raise awareness and critical funds for the organization.

The Florida Senate gave final approval to a bill that would open the door to some people pursuing medical-malpractice lawsuits over the deaths of family members on Thursday.

Mayor Donna Deegan’s Office said that the firearm registry policy that’s being questioned by a councilmember was created before she took office.

Burnout, trauma, and high stress are significant factors threatening the mental health of firefighters, and Florida lawmakers have unanimously passed a bill designed to combat the growing number of suicides among firefighters.

Florida lawmakers are still nowhere close to agreeing on a budget for the next fiscal year. That means the legislative session that was supposed to wrap up Friday will not end on time.

Cruella de Vil wanted to turn Dalmatian puppies into fur coats.

Duval County School parents reacted to new data released on Tuesday showed that Florida’s average teacher pay is still ranked near the bottom of the nation.

The recent series of coyote attacks in Atlantic Beach put a spotlight on the potential for rabies and other diseases that can come from an animal bite.

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters, local child safety advocates and other community members gathered on Thursday morning at a Jacksonville child care facility to mark National Heatstroke Prevention Day.

From sky-high property taxes to soaring insurance premiums, affordability is becoming a dealbreaker for people wanting to move to the Sunshine State, and it’s resulting in bold proposals from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Electric bikes and scooters are becoming increasingly popular in densely populated areas around the country; however, their rise in usage coincides with an increased need for safety measures, according to a study published by the University of San Francisco.

A coyote believed to be behind several recent attacks on residents and pets in Atlantic Beach has been found dead in a junkyard, police said Thursday.

The Department of Justice said two Jacksonville men were charged for their alleged roles in a series of armed robberies across Florida.

Cathey said a coyote attacked him near Donald Dagley’s Workshop, a junkyard not far from Begonia Street where he works. A fellow worker was able to take a photograph of the coyote.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are in Florida with Gov. Ron DeSantis to praise a week long operation that netted 1,120 arrests of people they say were in the country illegally.

Six days a week, United States Postal Service workers deliver bills, birthday cards, and packages, but lately, another element has followed them along their routes: The fear of being robbed.

With a growing demand for skilled workers across Florida, local students were able to get a hands-on look at what a future in the trades could look like.

New data released on Tuesday showed that Florida’s average teacher pay is still ranked near the bottom of the nation.

Florida officials are appealing an injunction that freezes a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people who came to the country illegally to enter Florida if they elude immigration authorities.

Cathey said a coyote attacked him near Donald Dagley’s Workshop, a junkyard not far from Begonia Street where he works. A fellow worker was able to take a photograph of the coyote.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis will hold a press conference in Fruitland Park on Wednesday.

The Florida House overwhelmingly approved a plan last week that aims, in part, to ease financial strains on condominium owners, setting up negotiations with the Senate before the scheduled end of the 2025 legislative session.

In this exciting segment, The Golden Edge Sweets is serving up more than just delicious cookies—they’re dishing out oversized, handcrafted treats made from scratch with bold, unforgettable flavors!

The City of Atlantic Beach is investigating multiple reports of coyote attacks in Atlantic Beach.

Attorneys for the family of one of the two men killed during the mass shooting at Florida State University will speak at a news conference on Wednesday morning outside the student union.

HCA Florida Memorial Hospital hosted a heartfelt tribute honoring organ donors, recipients, and families — all sharing powerful stories to raise awareness about the growing need for organ donation.

As more women and young people run for public office, they’re bringing more than fresh policy ideas to statehouses.

Florida is poised to become the second state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over the concerns of dentists and public health advocates who say the mineral is a safe, effective way to protect people of all ages from developing cavities.

Laurel Day was one of hundreds of students who survived and witnessed the shooting that killed two people and injured six others on campus, near the student union.

The Florida House on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would back away from a requirement aimed at starting high-school classes later in the morning.

The future home of Florida’s first state-funded Black History museum is once again up for debate, even though a task force that met for nearly a year recommended St. Augustine as the location.

A 32-year-old man from Maine was arrested and accused of threatening to kill a Flagler County resident and their family through messages sent over the Xbox network, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

Tomatoes represent a $1.9 billion annual crop, nationwide. They’re planted on 330,000 acres across 18 states, but diseases such as bacterial spot can ravage the popular crop.

A newly filed amendment in the Florida Legislature could reshape the state’s approach to honoring Black history.

Floria Attorney General James Uthmeier will hold a press conference at Jacksonville Classical Academy Tuesday morning.

The Florida House on Friday approved a $5.008 billion tax package after making a change to a controversial proposal about shifting money collected for tourism marketing.

Drivers on I-95 and I-295 Sunday were met by a strange sight— a barefoot man wrestling a giant alligator in the median.

A recent wave of hundreds of illegal immigrant arrests in Florida has one immigration attorney’s clients on edge as they legally navigate the citizenship process.

Jacksonville Today reader Mark L. wonders how much revenue from the Florida Lottery is supporting public education, like proponents promised it would.

Two men were arrested at Orange Park Mall for a series of robberies across Florida, according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).

Efforts in Florida to enforce President Donald Trump’s immigration policy recently reached new heights as Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it arrested nearly 800 illegal immigrants as part of a “massive, multi-agency, immigration enforcement crackdown.”

Attorneys have filed a class action lawsuit against a Jacksonville-based property management company, alleging it charged tenants excessive and unlawful fees in violation of Florida’s consumer protection laws.

A 65-year-old St. Johns woman just got six-figures richer, according to the Florida Lottery.

Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature is moving forward with a series of proposals that would help charter schools, while Democrats argue the measures would chip away at traditional public schools.

Orange Park Mall owner Washington Prime Group has, or is near, putting its entire portfolio of 50 shopping centers up for sale as it lays off employees at its corporate headquarters, Jacksonville Daily Record reported.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Monday that this year’s Gulf Red Snapper season will be extended to 126 days, starting on Memorial Day weekend.

Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, said philosophical differences are stalling progress with the state budget, specifically over tax relief plans.

A federal judge Friday cleared the way for a California-based company to continue pursuing a challenge to a 2024 state law that bans the sale and manufacturing of “cultivated” meat in Florida.

However, this invasive plant has become a threat to many southern states — and if you live in the Sunshine State, you’ve likely come across it on more than a few occasions. State records show that kudzu is a type of vine that stems from Asia, where it was used for centuries as food for livestock and to help prevent erosion.

U.S. officials say the wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a security check.

In this episode of Gators Breakdown, David Waters recaps the Florida Gators 2025 Orange and Blue Game, which featured an offensive showcase.

While there is a chance for much-needed rain today, the Opening of the Beaches parade at 2:00 p.m. in Jacksonville Beach will be dry and warm with breezy winds out of the east.

Former Florida defensive tackle Desmond Watson, a 6-foot-6, 464-pound prospect, is signing with his hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 33 shots and the Tampa Bay Lightning came back to beat the Florida Panthers 5-1 to cut their deficit in the first-round series to 2-1.

W're highlighting one Neptune Beach student who is volunteering to fight Alzheimer’s disease every year at an annual walk that draws thousands of people.

Saturday is National Drug Take-Back Day.

Despite another season of 40 or more wins (Jacksonville was 42-22-7 in the regular season) the Icemen lost for the fifth time in five playoff seasons to Florida. The Everblades have ended Jacksonville’s seasons in 2019, 2022, ’23-’25.

In Bradford County attorneys are trying to convince the judge that Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson should not be put to death.

About 22 million people already live in Florida, and it’s expected to grow to 33 million by 2070. Those who irrigate lawns tap into the same water, much of it from the Floridan aquifer.

As Florida’s legislative session enters its final week, lawmakers are racing against the clock to address several key issues before the May 2 deadline.

With the Senate and House unable to reach agreement on tax cuts and spending, lawmakers will not finish negotiations on a new state budget in time to end the legislative session as scheduled next week.

For students at Florida State University, the sounds of last Thursday’s shooting still echo in their minds.

As Governor Ron DeSantis continued to push back on Thursday against criticism surrounding a $10 million donation to Hope Florida, a charity led by his wife, Casey DeSantis, a political analyst weighed in on whether this could affect her gubernatorial chances if she chooses to enter the 2026 race.

Five years after helping save a man’s life from addiction, one Jacksonville woman is now battling her own fight. However, she said if it wasn’t for the same man she once helped, she may not be here.

The Senate on Wednesday sent back to the House a bill (HB 987) focused on road designations, after making changes that included a proposal to designate a four-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County as “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard.”

A new University of Florida study tracking more than 5 million trees over nearly three decades reveals a troubling trend for the future of forests in the United States – the loss of native trees.

Farm Share, the state’s largest food bank, will distribute food to Floridians in need on Saturday morning in Lake City.

National Kids and Pets Day on Saturday serves as a reminder of the dangers they face in cars, especially as families prepare to drive for spring or summer vacations.

On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back against a new report that said last year’s $10 million donation to Hope Florida, a charity spearheaded by his wife Casey DeSantis, was part of a Medicaid settlement that owed millions of dollars to state and federal taxpayers.

Orange County commissioners on Tuesday voted 6-1 to approve investing millions of dollars to attract WWE, UFC and the Jacksonville Jaguars to Central Florida.

The Icemen find themselves in a familiar position — facing a playoff elimination at the hands of their biggest rival.

A burn ban is effective in Flagler County starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Florida students who were traumatized by the 2018 Parkland school shooting — and last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University — are urging lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse not to roll back gun restrictions they passed in the wake of the killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back against a new report that said last year’s $10 million donation to Hope Florida, a charity spearheaded by his wife Casey DeSantis, was part of a Medicaid settlement that owed millions of dollars to state and federal taxpayers.

Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted Congress to create an independent commission to help states update their voting equipment.

School district officials on Florida’s Space Coast aren’t renewing the contract of a teacher who used a student’s chosen name without getting permission from the student’s parents in violation of Florida law.

The House passed a new bill aimed at creating a dog registry and requiring owners of those dogs to have $100,000 in liability insurance on Wednesday.

A week after a bill sparked by controversy at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts passed unanimously in the Senate, the school confirmed yet another employee has been removed over reports of “inappropriate conduct.”

Orange County commissioners on Tuesday voted 6-1 to approve investing millions of dollars to attract WWE, UFC and the Jacksonville Jaguars to Central Florida.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will hold a press conference in at Indian River College in Fort Pierce Wednesday morning.

Matthew Tkachuk had two power-play goals and an assist in his first game after a two-month absence and the Florida Panthers opened defense of their Stanley Cup title with a 6-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the opener of the teams’ first-round playoff series.

A last-minute push to pass an emergency resolution supporting state funding for education acceleration programs -- like Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and Dual Enrollment -- didn’t make the cut at Tuesday night’s Jacksonville City Council meeting.

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) said that five injured victims from the Florida State University shooting were discharged and one remains there in good condition.

Student survivors of last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University are urging legislators to block an effort to reverse a law passed in the wake of the 2018 Parkland shooting that raised the state’s gun-buying age from 18 to 21.

Researchers at the University of Florida are steak-ing their reputations on a solution to cows contributing to greenhouse gases: A way to make their burps and farts cause less damage to the climate.

Homeowners in Florida would be allowed to ward off surveillance drones under a new bill pushed by lawmakers.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Tuesday morning in Naples to highlight the efforts to restore natural resources across the state, while continuing to express his disapproval for the House of Representatives’ budget proposal.

The Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of State Fire Marshal will host the Ringing of the Bell Ceremony on Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the Capitol courtyard.