Category: Pensacola

According to our estimates, the City of Pensacola Sunshine Center has handled approximately 150 public record requests during each of the three quarters of this…

Most government agencies cooperate with information requests from the media. The average turnaround on a request with Escambia County, the Sheriff’s Office and any other…

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward took to Facebook on Friday to announce the third annual Pensacola Community Survey by the UWF Haas Center. “One of the…

The City of Pensacola Sunshine Center appears to have overcharged Inweekly for several record requests. Here is just one example: In August, the newspaper requested…

Inweekly isn’t the only one having trouble with Mayor Ashton Hayward’s Sunshine Center, the city department responsible for fulfilling public record requests. Former Pensacola City…

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward doesn’t want to explain his September 2015 decision to settle the lawsuit brought against the City of Pensacola by former City…

The City of Pensacola uploaded its August 2016 monthly line-item report on Tuesday. Finally the Pensacola Fire Department has reined in its overtime, only spending…

Daily News reporter Tom McLaughlin reports that Okaloosa County will soon begin shipping its recyclables to ECUA’s new $10-million facility located at the Escambia County’s…

Most Florida metro areas outpaced the nation in gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in 2015. Fifteen of Florida’s 22 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) increased…

The Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization, has selected the Vince Whibbs, Sr. Community Maritime Park as one of three finalists for…

Tampa’s City Attorney Julia Mandell responded to the newspaper’s inquiry about its strong mayor’s power to settle lawsuits against the City of Tampa. She said…

City Attorney Lysia Bowling advised Mayor Ashton Hayward to settle the William Reynolds v. City of Pensacola lawsuit in September 2015, according to Chief Assistant…

At the September Agenda Review for the Pensacola City Council, CFO Barker presented a slide that showed that OffShore Inland owed the Port of Pensacola…

The State Attorney’s Office has determined there was insufficient evidence to establish that Mayor Ashton Hayward committed any crime when he settled his former city…

Local officials and community leaders in 11 cities across the country, including Pensacola Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn, joined together today to announce a plan to bring…

City Administrator Eric Olson last week told the Pensacola City Council the groundwater cleanup at the site of Corrine Jones-Government St. stormwater pond was scheduled…

Secretary of State Ken Detzner announced today that six additional Florida properties have recently been listed on the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic…

Ocean City Wright Fire Control District commissioners voted this week to suspend Fire Chief Billy Lord for 45 days and Assistant Fire Chief Scott Funchess…

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward announced that the city will receive the last of four Hazardous Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) grants from the Federal Emergency Management…

The City of Pensacola’s budget details the organizational structure of each city department, including the Mayor’s Office. The positions in that department have turned over…