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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Filling up the tank is becoming a bigger expense for Jacksonville drivers, with regular gas averaging $4.36 a gallon on Friday and diesel reaching a record high statewide. According to AAA, Jacksonville’s average price for regular gasoline increased 4 cents overnight, up from $4.32 Thursday.

DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. – The unemployment rate in Northeast Florida rose to 4.8% in August, according to the latest employment report by CareerSource covering Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam and St. Johns counties. The rate was 0.3 percentage points higher than the region’s 4.5% rate in August 2025. The...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – DeShawn Russ, 36, of Jacksonville, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. U.S. Attorney Heekin said, “Keeping this violent,...

A Moncrief Road convenience store that Jacksonville police say had quietly become a hub for drug deals is now linked to a shut-down drug business, after detectives arrested four people and seized fentanyl, crack cocaine, marijuana, a handgun, and more than $3,000 in cash. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said the bust

Cavender's Boot City opened its Orange Park location on September 18, 2026, bringing a retail store stocked with Western and work apparel, boots and accessories for men, women and children to 249 Blanding Blvd. The store is located in a space that previously housed competitor Boot Barn, marking another chapter in a bus

A Florida administrative law judge is recommending an education commission drop charges seeking revoke or suspend Jacksonville teacher Hope McMath’s license over a controversial Charlie Kirk post. McMath was an art history teacher at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.

Two charges were dropped Thursday against Shanna Gardner, who is accused in the Jared Bridegan murder-for-hire plot.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Four people were arrested after Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office detectives served a search warrant Sept. 2 at the Price Rite Food Store on Moncrief Road, where investigators said they found drugs, a handgun and more than $3,000 in cash. JSO said it began investigating the business...

JTA riders could soon see longer wait times as the authority prepares to shift many weekday bus routes to a Saturday schedule.

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) is implementing austerity measures to fix what has become an unsustainable financial crisis.