It was 6 a.m., a few days before Donna Deegan was sworn in as mayor of Jacksonville. She was standing in the driveway of her Atlantic Beach home, waiting for her husband, Tim, to finish lacing up ...

If you watched one of Jacksonville’s Hurricane Milton briefings, you saw Mayor Donna Deegan standing at a lectern, a row of officials behind her, a deaf interpreter beside her. If you’re like ...

Tim and Donna Deegan — the former First Coast News anchor, his wife since 2002, and the mayor of Jacksonville since 2023 — begin many mornings with a run down to the beach to see the sun come up.