Lots of Jacksonville roads, bridges and communities owe their official names to some famous people: long dead of course. Jacksonville was named in 1822 for Andrew Jackson, who was not president at the ...

Opened on April 15, 1953, the John E. Mathews Bridge has for 71 years carried cars, trucks and buses across the St. Johns River from downtown Jacksonville to the Arlington neighborhood via the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — One of the most frequently asked questions First Coast News gets is whether bridges are going to close during high winds. Wednesday morning, St. Augustine Police announced the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- To get anywhere in Jacksonville, you are probably going to have to cross a bridge. Around 413,000 people are estimated to drive over at least one of Jacksonville's seven main ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — UPDATE: As of 10:57 a.m., the Mathews Bridge has reopened. As of 10:24 a.m., the Main Street Bridge has reopened. As of 11:45 a.m., the Hart Bridge has reopened. There are ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – There are nine bridges in the Jacksonville area, which means someone is always crossing over one of the region’s many waterways. As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, questions ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Every day, thousands of Jacksonville residents rely on the city’s iconic bridges to get to where they safely need to go. Jacksonville is often nicknamed the “City of Bridges” and ...

Mayor Donna Deegan said Tuesday after the collapse of a Baltimore bridge struck by a cargo container ship that the Dames Point bridge in Jacksonville has built-in safeguards for shielding the heavily ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On the sixth anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, hundreds of people from across Jacksonville came together to cross the Acosta Bridge in celebration of Pride ...

At least three bridges across Jacksonville were closed in both directions Wednesday morning amid the winter storm causing multiple crashes and hazardous icy conditions, according to the Jacksonville ...

It connected two cities that had been separated by a river since both were founded. So when the St. Johns River Bridge opened on July 1, 1921, to allow Jacksonville and South Jacksonville's drivers ...