Regional

The corner of South Second and Ash streets was the longtime home of a boat repair and marine supply business. It’s still The Boat House, but after the building’s complete renovation and upgrade, it’s shrimp and grits being fixed up instead of outboard motors. The restaurant is the creation...

Dillon Basse / Special to the News-Leader Second Hand Rosie began as a lifelong dream of Rosanna Psulkowski. “Rosie,” as most people know her, had just recently become an empty nester after the youngest of her six children finally left for college. Now that they were out of the house...

State Rep. Cord Byrd, R-Neptune Beach, believes the state is in a good place economically and wants to continue his work with another term in the state’s House of Representatives, and possibly beyond. Byrd, a gun rights attorney currently in his second two-year term, spoke by phone with the...

The host Fernandina Beach Middle School football team held off a second-half rally by Yulee Middle School for an 18-14 victory Thursday night at Pirate Field. Brodie Clemens was 5-of-8 for 94 passing yards and a pair of touchdowns for the FBMS Pirates; D’ante Simms had 13 rushes for 117 yards...

Plans to build two beachfront hotels side by side, on two separate lots on South Fletcher Avenue, just north of Sadler Road, have been in the works since 2016. After stalling out for several years, at least one question about the construction lies in the hands of the Florida Department of...

Members of the Fernandina Beach Marina Advisory Board expressed concern about variable rates for slips at the marina, which were made possible by recent action of the City Commission, and about plans for a waterfront park that encompasses the uplands east of the marina. The City Commission...

“A status conference on seismic litigation revealed (Thursday) that the industry will not pursue efforts to employ seismic airgun blasting to search the Atlantic Ocean for offshore petroleum deposits this year, and possibly for several years,” according to a news release from Oceana, a large...

Dr. Eugenia Ngo-Seidel, the director of the county health department, told the Nassau County Board of County Commissioners Wednesday that it is especially important this year for everyone to get a flu shot. The public health advice was part of Ngo-Seidel’s regular update on the local statistics...

Jim Last swept the amateur division of the 61st annual Professional Putters Association championships at Putt-Putt at Main Beach Sept. 14-18, and he did it left-handed. He started playing in the Fright night doubles tournaments at the Main Beach course in 2006. “I had a four handicap in high...

White Oak Conservation has started construction on a new 2,500-acre home for Asian elephants, according to a news release. Most of these elephants previously traveled throughout the United States with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus until they were retired in 2016. ...