Theme Parks, Family, Beaches Drawing Record Numbers Of Visitors To Florida
Florida has set a tourism record for a single quarter. Tourism marketer VISIT FLORIDA is reporting more than 28 million visitors arrived between January and March in 2015. WJCT went to the Florida...
View ArticleAmerican South Gets Portrait Taken In MOCA's 'Southern Exposure' Photography...
A new photography exhibit at Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art focuses on the American South. Southern Exposure: Portraits of a Changing Landscape features the work of seven renowned...
View ArticleAuthor Of Novel Set In Jacksonville To Share ‘Education’ At Main Library
The author of a new novel set in the First Coast is speaking at the Jacksonville Public Library on Wednesday. Larry Baker will be discussing his latest book, “The Education of Nancy Adams.” Adams is a...
View ArticleLenny Curry Next Jacksonville Mayor; Brown: I'll 'Always Be There For You'
Former Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry is Jacksonville’s next mayor. He narrowly beat incumbent Democratic Mayor Alvin Brown Tuesday with just over 51 percent of the vote. Curry says the...
View ArticleFlorida Ends Restriction On Investing In Northern Irish Companies
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed nearly 50 bills into law this week. One of them lifted decades-old restrictions on doing business with Northern Ireland. The move has raised the ire of Irish Catholics....
View ArticleDuval County Honors Fallen Service Members
Hundreds of people gathered at the Duval County Veterans Memorial Wall in downtown Jacksonville Monday for the city’s Memorial Day Observance ceremony. Five new names have been added to the wall. All...
View ArticleSouth Florida Delivers Amazon A Tri-County Pitch Focused On Technology And...
Economic development teams in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties are working together to reel in a whopper: Amazon’s second corporate headquarters.
View ArticleBoynton Beach Sober Home Scammer Gets 71 Months in Prison
Authorities in South Florida have charged more than 60 sober home and drug treatment center operators with health care fraud over the past year and a half. On Thursday, 27-year-old Albert Jones of...
View ArticleFlorida’s Goliath Grouper Is As Big As A Grizzly Bear. And Officials Say It’s...
There will be no harvesting of Goliath Grouper in Florida, for now.
View ArticleActivists March Through Lake Worth On International Workers Day
Dozens of people marched through downtown Lake Worth Tuesday evening before holding a rally for International Workers Day. There were young boys drumming on buckets, and adults carrying banners and...
View ArticleFPL Prepares For Hurricane Season With ‘Lessons Learned’ From Irma
With hurricane season fast approaching, Florida Power and Light is testing its systems — and more than 3,000 employees — to make sure they can get the lights back on quickly after a storm. All this...
View ArticleCoast Guard Unloads A Lot Of Cocaine At Port Everglades
Six tons of South American cocaine destined for the United States arrived Thursday, but not as originally intended. The drugs were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard and offloaded to authorities at...
View ArticleMarjory Stoneman Douglas Shooting Survivors Will Cross The Country...
Survivors of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have announced their next push to end gun violence: a cross-country voter drive.
View Article'This Is What We Came From': Photographer Finds 'Old' Florida Preserved In...
Photographer Sofia Valiente grew up in Davie, but for the last three years she’s been documenting the history of the Glades region around the southern lip of Lake Okeechobee. Her project is a 2017...
View ArticleGuatemalans In Palm Beach County Help Volcano Victims
A Palm Beach County organization is gathering aid for Guatemalans in need after the eruption of Guatemala's Fuego Volcano Sunday.
View ArticlePalm Beach County 911 Now Accepts Text Messages
People living in Palm Beach County have a new way to reach 911 in an emergency: by text message. Anyone in the county with a cell phone can send a text to 911 describing their emergency. The message...
View ArticleWest Palm World Cup Fans Show South American Solidarity During Uruguay Match
On a Friday morning in West Palm Beach, World Cup fans clad in sky blue took over the Argentine restaurant Al Pan Pan. South Floridians representing a host of different Latin American countries...
View ArticleFrance Seized France.com. This Miami Man Is Suing To Get It Back.
Jean Noël-Frydman was born in France, but he feels right at home at his house in the Grove. "Coconut Grove is a neighborhood that appeals to the French taste," said Frydman. "It's not as organized as...
View ArticleMen and Women Who Work On Ships Find An Oasis At Port Everglades
In the 1980s, a Spanish seminarian named Mother María Jimenez recognized that the job of crewing a ship could be particularly stressful and isolating. Every week, thousands of these 'seafarers' pass...
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