BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At midday Thursday, Mayor Lenny Curry announced a new, local stimulus package to provide $1,000 in assistance directly to 40,000 Jacksonville residents who most need it, fund six additional testing sites throughout the city, support the small-business loan program the city has already started and to help the city in other ways.Curry announced this and other developments as a result of $160 million federal CARES grant to fund COVID-19 relief during a video conference at midday.The $1,000 individual stimulus...…BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At midday Thursday, Mayor Lenny Curry announced a new, local stimulus package to provide $1,000 in assistance directly to 40,000 Jacksonville residents who most need it, fund six additional testing sites throughout the city, support the small-business loan program the city has already started and to help the city in other ways.Curry announced this and other developments as a result of $160 million federal CARES grant to fund COVID-19 relief during a video conference at midday.The $1,000 individual stimulus...WW…

BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida’s tourism and hospitality industry should reopen from the slowly, focusing first on getting residents to take in-state vacations before branching out to domestic and international travelers, a working group of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ was told Tuesday.The panel charged with recommending how to restart businesses shuttered by DeSantis’ stay-at-home order includes the presidents of Disney World and Universal Orlando, airline and airport executives, the heads of several restaurants and hospitality groups,...…BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida’s tourism and hospitality industry should reopen from the slowly, focusing first on getting residents to take in-state vacations before branching out to domestic and international travelers, a working group of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ was told Tuesday.The panel charged with recommending how to restart businesses shuttered by DeSantis’ stay-at-home order includes the presidents of Disney World and Universal Orlando, airline and airport executives, the heads of several restaurants and hospitality groups,...WW…

LIVETags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – An announcement Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis on proposals to this year’s legislative session to tighten Florida’s voting procedures felt more like a Republican campaign rally, with the governor inviting former GOP state party Chairman Blaze Drinkwine to make remarks slamming New York and its governor, Andrew Cuomo.“The result of 2020, from an administrative perspective, was that Florida had the most transparent and efficient election anywhere in the country,” DeSantis said to the cheering crowd. “The results speak...…LIVETags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – An announcement Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis on proposals to this year’s legislative session to tighten Florida’s voting procedures felt more like a Republican campaign rally, with the governor inviting former GOP state party Chairman Blaze Drinkwine to make remarks slamming New York and its governor, Andrew Cuomo.“The result of 2020, from an administrative perspective, was that Florida had the most transparent and efficient election anywhere in the country,” DeSantis said to the cheering crowd. “The results speak...WW…

WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – If you were asked to describe the legacy of President Richard Nixon, “environmentalist” is probably not one of the first things that would come to mind.Before a political burglary blew up into a political scandal that toppled the president, Nixon made several progressive decisions, including expanding the Endangered Species Conservation Act, establishing the Environmental Protection Agency and -- 50 years ago this week -- ordering an end to a project to dig a canal across the Florida peninsula.The Cross...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – If you were asked to describe the legacy of President Richard Nixon, “environmentalist” is probably not one of the first things that would come to mind.Before a political burglary blew up into a political scandal that toppled the president, Nixon made several progressive decisions, including expanding the Endangered Species Conservation Act, establishing the Environmental Protection Agency and -- 50 years ago this week -- ordering an end to a project to dig a canal across the Florida peninsula.The Cross...WW…

LIVETags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: The eyes of the nation may be on the runoff election for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, but only registered voters in the state can cast ballots. In the balance: which party will control the Senate for at least the next two years.The runoffs pit incumbent Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue against Democratic challengers Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Republicans need one more seat for a majority in the Senate, while Democrats need to win both races.WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY STAND ON 18 ISSUES: | In addition to the...…LIVETags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: The eyes of the nation may be on the runoff election for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, but only registered voters in the state can cast ballots. In the balance: which party will control the Senate for at least the next two years.The runoffs pit incumbent Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue against Democratic challengers Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Republicans need one more seat for a majority in the Senate, while Democrats need to win both races.WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY STAND ON 18 ISSUES: | In addition to the...WW…

BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayor Lenny Curry is encouraged enough by two weeks of data about positive cases of COVID-19 identified in Jacksonville and hospitalizations that he is reasonably confident the curve is flattening. So much so that he announced that Jacksonville’s beaches will reopen for essential activities at 5 p.m. Friday.As defined in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Executive Order, essential activities include the following:“This can be the beginning of the pathway back to normal life,” Curry said in a statement late Thursday. “Please...…BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayor Lenny Curry is encouraged enough by two weeks of data about positive cases of COVID-19 identified in Jacksonville and hospitalizations that he is reasonably confident the curve is flattening. So much so that he announced that Jacksonville’s beaches will reopen for essential activities at 5 p.m. Friday.As defined in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Executive Order, essential activities include the following:“This can be the beginning of the pathway back to normal life,” Curry said in a statement late Thursday. “Please...WW…

WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The latest COVID-19 models from the University of Washington — the most widely-cited by U.S. health officials — move the projected peak of the impact on Florida back about two weeks, but increased the total deaths the state may see by late summer.UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation creates projections based on local responses around the world to the coronavirus pandemic, including whether state leaders have enacted travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders. The projections are updated weekly or...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The latest COVID-19 models from the University of Washington — the most widely-cited by U.S. health officials — move the projected peak of the impact on Florida back about two weeks, but increased the total deaths the state may see by late summer.UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation creates projections based on local responses around the world to the coronavirus pandemic, including whether state leaders have enacted travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders. The projections are updated weekly or...WW…

WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Unveiling an initiative called “Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced his plan to begin reopening the state and begin a slow climb from the economic abyss caused by the coronavirus.Everywhere in Florida other than Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties and where local government has more stringent regulations, restaurants and retail stores will be allowed to reopen Monday at 25% capacity.DeSantis’ order will also allow hospitals and surgical centers to restart...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Unveiling an initiative called “Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced his plan to begin reopening the state and begin a slow climb from the economic abyss caused by the coronavirus.Everywhere in Florida other than Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties and where local government has more stringent regulations, restaurants and retail stores will be allowed to reopen Monday at 25% capacity.DeSantis’ order will also allow hospitals and surgical centers to restart...WW…