COVID-19 divided communities over politics, public health and personal liberties. How that played out in Southwest Florida.

On March 10, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced the first positive COVID-19 case in North Central Florida, a 68-year-old woman who was a Georgia resident visiting the area.

Reflecting on the pandemic 5 years later. Many Brevard restaurants closed but others adapted to the challenges.

A federal jury has found a Florida man guilty of seaman’s manslaughter, lying to the Coast Guard, and COVID-19 relief fraud.

It's as if time came to a standstill in March 2020, we blinked and five years and ... This column begins a week-long effort by us here at FLORIDA TODAY to look back on some of the bigger local ...

Ominous and unstoppable, the coronavirus disease reached the West Coast of the United States in January 2020, the first confirmed case of what became known as COVID-19 turning up near Seattle. Nearly ...

Five years ago, the deadly virus COVID-19 brought fear and death to Jacksonville-area hospitals. But they overcame multiple ...

Dustin McCabe, who was 49 on Thursday, was convicted of seaman's manslaughter in the death of Mollie Ghiz-Flynn on March 29, ...

COVID-19 arrived in Florida in March 2020, initially met with indifference but quickly escalating into a public health crisis. Florida's response, led by Governor DeSantis, emphasized economic ...