More psych beds needed

AHCA has published the need for adult, children and adolescent psychiatric beds as well as adult substance abuse beds for July 2025. The agency says…

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Update: City of Pensacola cyberattack

Press release: The City of Pensacola’s computer network suffered a cyberattack during the early morning hours of Dec. 7, 2019. The city took immediate steps…

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Blue Wahoos honor heroes of NAS shooting

The Pensacola Blue Wahoos will take the field in 2020 with their city over their hearts. The team announced on Thursday that the Blue Wahoos…

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New Pleasant Grove school moves forward

The new Pleasant Grove elementary school just took another step toward reality and Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill is, in the words of Escambia County…

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Escambia District 3 picked up most voters since May 2019

  Escambia County  added 4,046 from May 31, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2019.  The most voters were added to Commissioner Lumon May’s District 3, 1,025…

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Gulf Breeze Zoo wins national conservation award

In January 2019, the Gulf Breeze Zoo added a family of Orangutans and started their “Spirit of Sumatra” conservation program. Recently, the Zoo received high…

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Recreational pot proposal shelved for 2020

By Jim Saunders TALLAHASSEE — Pointing to a “narrow timeframe” for meeting petition-signature requirements, backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to allow recreational marijuana use…

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Pensacola High lost 139 freshman over four years, 30.7 percent

Pensacola High lost 30.7% of its 2015-16 freshman class when it calculated its 2018-19 graduation cohort. The district reported 91.2% graduation rate for PHS for…

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Presser notes: Lovoy love

This week, city council will decide whether or not to approve Mayor Robinson’s selection of Amy Lovoy as the city’s finance director. Lovoy came to…

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Highlights: State of the State

In his State of the State address today, Governor Ron DeSantis encouraged lawmakers to recognize that people are more mobile and will move out of…

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Presser notes: Possible Paddle Battle

Pensacola is currently seeking to establish a regional paddle trail in local waterways, complete with a designation from the Florida Paddling Trails Association as a…

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Presser notes: $17 million question

Last summer, the Pensacola City Council decided to refinance $40 million of debt associated with the Community Maritime Park and then borrow $17.7 million to…

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