Jacksonville

The recently announced $70 million Hilton hotel on the Southside medical center campus is the newest among six major projects in various stages.

For the minority of nursing students who have refused a COVID shot, the Biden administration's vaccine policy could mean they can’t get the training they need in a hospital or other health care venue.

A Jacksonville City Council member says he will introduce legislation to authorize a program for drug users to safely exchange used needles for new ones at no cost.

Board members authorized the district’s legal team to sue over an emergency rule requiring school districts to allow parents to opt their kids out of mask mandates and quarantine requirements.

At least 270 people have died from overdoses so far this year in Jacksonville; 271 people had died from an overdose at the same point last year .

The money from the Partnership for Mental Health will go to increase access to mental health services and provide behavioral health care.

The medical director of the pediatric ICU at the Jacksonville hospital said that along with the COVID surge in kids there’s been a rise in the number of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

The governor appeared with Toma Dean, the woman seen on the floor of a state-run Regenron clinic in a viral photo. Dean said that she believes the treatment helped keep her alive after she caught COVID.

A group of parents take issue with a policy at the school that allows only students who are fully vaccinated to go without a face covering.

"It’s horrible that we’ve retreated into our partisan tribes relating to things like masks and vaccines and whether or not COVID is even real, and whether or not we are lying about the hospitals being full."