St. Johns County

The proposed 118,000-square-foot project slated for Silverleaf includes a freestanding 24/7 Baptist Health/Wolfson Children’s Emergency Center, office space and a maintenance building.

Baptist Health will soon break ground on its Nassau Crossing Medical Campus in Yulee, and construction is underway on a primary care facility in St. Johns.

The St. Johns County School District’s mask mandate for employees and visitors expired Thursday, and Superintendent Tim Forson has not moved to extend it.

The district - which does not mandate that students wear masks - is experiencing a slightly higher rate of infection than more populous, adjacent Duval County.

Despite an executive order that bars mask mandates, there is a petition that asks school board members whether they’d risk their lives by spending a day in schools if they were neither masked nor vaccinated.

Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties reported similar increases amid a drop in vaccination rates and increase in delta variant cases.

St. Johns County launched a new COVID-19 vaccination appointment preregistration system on Monday, replacing the earlier Eventbrite system.

People 65 and older can now make appointments to receive the Moderna vaccine at 105 Publix pharmacies in 12 Florida counties.

A St. Johns County Commissioner proposed a mandatory mask mandate during Tuesday’s special emergency meeting, but the motion failed as none of the other...

Seventeen men have been arrested for child-exploitation crimes, St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar announced Friday.