Assessment teams are heading out in boats to check on flood damage in two north Florida counties. ...more

April 10, 2009

Several days of heavy rainfall has saturated northern Florida from the Panhandle to Jacksonville. ...more

April 4, 2009

City council voted unanimously Monday to repair the downtown fire station after staff trimmed the project's budget by more than $150,000. ...more

March 11, 2009

City Manager Steve Spina said architects have revised the plans for renovating the downtown fire station to cut costs. ...more

March 7, 2009

City Manager Steve Spina said architects have revised the plans for renovating the downtown fire station to cut costs. Spina will ask the city council to approve the latest plans Monday so the city can move forward with repairing the station, which has been out of service for more than a year because of flood damage. ...more

March 6, 2009

No decisions were made, but new questions were raised about the city's fire stations during Monday night's city council meeting. ...more

February 25, 2009

Firefighters call it "The Palace." Built in 2000, Fire Station 1 on Dairy Road is a penthouse compared with the city's downtown fire station. ...more

February 21, 2009

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, appears to have attained Olympian heights, setting at least five weather records in the United States and Cuba. ...more

November 26, 2008

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast three years ago, a staggering degree of incompetence emerged at every level of government. From New Orleans city hall to the White House, no one was prepared to deal with the Category 3 storm and its devastating aftermath. ...more

September 3, 2008

This has been a sad few weeks for residents of our nation's Heartland as flooding has caused the failure of numerous levees along the Mississippi River creating untold damage, destruction and loss of life. Many residents no doubt also have received some additional bad news - the destruction of their home by flooding is not covered by their standard homeowners insurance policy. ...more

July 13, 2008