Scarlling Manzanarez Scott

After six years of fierce hurricanes and searing summer temperatures, Florida’s residential real estate industry worries that weather patterns influenced by climate change may have wilted the state’s reputation as an idyllic place to live and work.

The family is using more than $6,000 in community donations to rebuild their mobile home after a tree fell during Hurricane Helene and damaged the roof.

The Alachua County Board of County Commissioners issued an order Sunday afternoon to declare a local state of emergency in Alachua County in preparation for Hurricane Milton.

After three years of hurricanes barreling up the Gulf of Mexico, battered North Florida residents may feel they are living in a new Florida Hurricane Alley. But experts say there have not been any real changes in hurricane geographic patterns.

The Alachua County Commission plans to vote Tuesday on a final budget to fund a new community park on the former West End Golf Course property.