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LeAnna Cumber argued the nearly $1 billion in local infrastructure projects funded by the expected revenue could instead be paid for with federal infrastructure dollars.

Jacksonville City Council turned back an attempt Tuesday to kill a gas tax increase starting Jan. 1, but the politics of the gas tax are far from done.

Jacksonville will put up nearly $10.7 million to widen part of Race Track Road that still is two lanes. State will replace two-lane overpass.

Activists are switching gears in their campaign to take down a Confederate statue in Springfield Park. With City Council appearing to be a lost cause, the focus shifts to recruiting private interests to make the case that a reputation for racism is bad for business.

Two committees of the Jacksonville City Council voted Monday against removing a Confederate monument from public property in Springfield Park, indicating broad opposition to an ordinance that would require two-thirds of the council's support.

Present and future Speakers laud Fischer's 'character and commitment.'

First, Mayor Lenny Curry is looking for city council’s approval to use $4 million of federal funds to help solve the city's waste collection problem.

Coffee is for closers. So is Sunburn, your morning rundown of Florida politics.

Neighbors in one Jacksonville community can weigh in on a proposed waste transfer station on Thursday evening. The proposed station would go right behind the tree line of the Greenland Chase neighborhood in Mandarin.

08:50 PM EST Share City Council voted 14-5 on May 25 to approve a 6-cent per gallon increase in Duval County for $1 billion in transportation projects.  After the Jacksonville City Council passed Mayor Lenny Curry’s proposed increase to Duval County’s local option gas tax May 25, he acknowledged to reporters gathered in the City Hall rotunda that no tax hike is popular with voters. “Today’s a historic day for our ability to invest in much-needed infrastructure in our ci...