Category: Politics

Due to the approaching storm and area weather alerts, WSRE’s “StudioAmped” performance by Johnny Hayes & The Loveseats, scheduled for Monday, Oct. 9, has been…

**NOAA AND AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT FIND THAT NATE IS A LITTLE STRONGER OVER THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO** NEW INFORMATION ————— *…

Gulf Breeze Police Department has notified residents via text: “There is not an estimated time for when the Bay Bridge might be closed. It will…

Hurricane Nate Update #5 Current Situation Tropical Storm Nate has strengthened to a Category 1 Hurricane. Escambia is under a Hurricane Watch, Tropical Storm Warning,…

Pensacola State College will close at 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 7, and remain closed through Sunday, Oct. 8. All activities and classes, whether on campus…

From the Pensacola International Airport Facebook page: Pensacola International Airport will close and cease ALL operations at 8 pm Saturday, October 7th and will remain…

Current Situation Escambia County is under a Hurricane Watch, which means that hurricane conditions are possible within the next 48 hours. A Storm Surge Watch is…

NATE POISED TO SEND WIND, WAVES TO PANHANDLE By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Florida’s western Panhandle, the one area of the state…

The Escambia Board of County Commissioners voted 4-0, with Commissioner Lumon May absent, to solicit letters of interest from other development companies to build a…

By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE: Twenty-nine counties along the Gulf Coast and in North Florida were put under a…

By Duwayne Escobedo INWEEKLY About a dozen local citizens greeted Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson IV at his town hall meeting at the Santa Rosa…

Yesterday on “Pensacola Speaks,” Quint Studer said that Studer Properties has an offer on the former ECUA Main Street Sewage Plant site. “We’ve got a…

By Duwayne Escobedo INWEEKLY Pensacola businessman Jay Patel will pitch a plan Thursday to the Escambia County Commission to create a $65 million public-private partnership…

Both Escambia County and City of Pensacola have issued warnings for the public to keep an eye on what could become Tropical Storm Nate by…

Note: We’ve been notified that the complainant is not prohibited from disclosing the complaint so we reposted the earlier post.  Former Escambia County Commissioner Wilson…

On Aug. 31, Crystal Yasurk, vice president of finance and administration for OffShore Inland, sent Port of Pensacola Director Amy Miller a letter notifying the…

After months of anticipation, Jay Patel unveiled his plan for a $100-million project that includes a 100,000 square-foot field house for basketball, volleyball and indoor…

Note: My initial post had the meeting date as tomorrow. It’s Oct. 5 – working on our Best of the Coast issue has me off…

On the eve of the final hearing for Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward’s FY 2018, City Administrator Eric Olson emailed the City Council the master plan…