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The control over Escambia County’s tourism marketing and its $5.5 million was moved this fall out of the Greater Pensacola Chamber and into the hands…

On a hot, sticky Saturday afternoon a small crowd of families and teenagers gathered on South Palafox Street. Within an hour, the crowd swelled to…

A team from Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition achieved a second-place finish in the elite DARPA Robotics Challenge, which featured 16 of the…

In the days after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., Escambia County Superintendent Malcolm Thomas told the daily newspaper, “We’re going…

Gulf Coast Cleanup In Numbers 4.6 million pounds — oily material collected from Gulf Coast shoreline in 2013 106,465 tons — total oily material collected…

David Wasserman, editor in charge of House elections for the Cook Political Report, predicted at today’s Panhandle Tiger Bay luncheon that Republicans are likely to…

Gov. Rick Scott reported Florida’s unemployment rate fell to 6.4 percent in November, down from 6.7 percent in October. The mark is the lowest for…

I thought it might be helpful to have a timeline of this month’s events regarding the MOU with ST Aerospace. The sequence of press releases…

Produced by Sachs Media Group parody on Obamacare. Sigh, if only it was funny as they think is. “The video opens as a battle over…

The County has said they will discuss ST Aerospace in January. Meanwhile Tamara Fountain, the mayor’s spokesperson, told Pensacola Digest: “Of course we are still…

ST Aerospace, the Malaysian-based company that signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Pensacola to bring 300 jobs to the airport commerce park,…

Pensacola native Stephanie George was sentenced in 1997 to a mandatory life sentence when police found drugs in a lockbox in her attic. The drugs…