A judge ruled in favor of two different lenders on Thursday in an $8 million lawsuit filed against a South Ponte Vedra Beach club.

After a court hearing on the pending Serenata Beach Club foreclosure, a non-jury trial date was set for July 18.

A new hearing is scheduled for the private beach club on South Ponte Vedra Beach facing foreclosure.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed the renourishment project at Vilano Beach in St. Johns County, Florida, three months ahead of schedule. The project, which involved adding sand to the shoreline, was finished in December. The next project for the Army Corps will take place at St. Augustine Beach, where 2.5 million cubic yards of sand will be added from Anastasia Island to A Street. This upcoming project is set to begin in February.

The Army Corps of Engineers began renourishment in Vilano Beach last year and plans to continue until March.

More beach renourishment is in store for South Ponte Vedra Beach as the St. Johns County Board of Commissioners enters the planning stages for the project.

Nicole eroded dunes and damaged roads and homes in parts of coastal St. Johns County.

A derelict shrimp boat has been sitting aground in Ponte Vedra Beach since June, and now county commissioners are asking for help to remove it.

A local couple and their daughter witnessed a miracle of nature last weekend when they were on South Ponte Vedra Beach during the hatching of a Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle nest.

The federal government is spending more than $60 million on projects to restore damaged St. Johns County beaches.

Two drivers were killed early Monday morning when a van southbound on State Road A1A in South Ponte Vedra Beach crossed into the northbound lane and struck an oncoming SUV, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A round of showers and storms that moved across our area prompted a Weather Authority Alert Day on Sunday. People in that area saw hours of rain, with amounts up to an inch. Clay, Putnam and St. Johns counties were under a tornado warning for parts of Sunday afternoon as showers and stormes pushed through. There were some reports of downed trees near State Road 13A and some flooding on County Road 65. AdThe Weather Authority Alert Day ended shortly before 6 p.m., and showers will fade Sunday night.

Two right whale calves and their mothers were spotted last week off the coast of Northeast Florida. So far, there have been seven calves sighted this right whale season, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Southeast. On Friday, a right whale known as Minus One and her new calf were sighted off South Ponte Vedra Beach. A right whale known as ‘Minus One’ is a mom again! Right whales are an endangered species that usually migrate south along the Georgia and Florida coastline to give birth to their calves.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – More than 257 volunteers, mostly students, helped clean up GTMNERR (Guana) Beaches in South Ponte Vedra Beach on Sunday. Some of the schools represented were Ponte Vedra High School, Nease High School, Greenwood High School, Landrum Middle School, Fletcher Middle School, Palm Valley Academy, Ocean Palms Elementary, as well as Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. They collected eight bags of trash, two bags of recycling and more. If you want to get involved, sign up for event emails at www.beachesgogreen.org or follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – After the nor’easter last week, part of a Navy plane dating back to World War II washed in South Ponte Vedra Beach. The plane has "landed" onsite ✈️ Our team believes this artifact is a WWII era Grumman F4F Wildcat. Another complication is the mixture of materials found such as aluminum and steel, said Andrew Thomson, the museum’s archaeological conservator. That’s something to which Bob Buehn, a retired Navy aviator and chairman of the lighthouse’s board of directors, can relate. Coincidentally, the museum just opened a World War II exhibit and it would like to see if the plane could stay permanently.