Mayor D.C. Reeves is accepting applications to be considered for two upcoming vacancies on the Downtown Improvement Board. Qualified individuals interested in serving on the DIB must fill out an online application…
ECUA gets competition for recycling
WM Breaks Ground on $30 Million Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Northwest Florida WM announced plans for its latest material recovery facility (MRF) at a groundbreaking ceremony today in Fort Walton Beach,…
Andrade defamation bill dead
Rep. Alex Andrade’s defamation bill (HB 991) is officially dead. The bill that drew criticism from both Republicans and Conservatives made it through the House Civil Justice Subcommittee in March but has…
Backroom Briefing: No Rush on Budget
Weekly political notes from The News Service of Florida By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Negotiations over an expected record budget for the upcoming fiscal year could begin…
Weekly Roundup: Entering the Home Stretch
Weekly Roundup: Entering the Home Stretch By Ryan Dailey,The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed one of his priorities and turned up the heat in his…
Moorhead Law wins Battle of the Barristers
Moorhead Law Group took home the trophy at United Way of West Florida’s 2nd Annual Battle of the Barristers. The event tested the knowledge of team members in categories like sports and…
Real News: Friday, April 21, 2023
Will Kennedy gives an update on UWF athletics. The involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin have been dropped. Jason Nathanson explains why. Casino Beach Bar & Grille kicks off the summer season…
Garcon Point Bridge moving under turnpike system
Legislative support continues to build for moving Northwest Florida’s Garcon Point Bridge into the state turnpike system. The House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday backed a wide-ranging Department of Transportation…
DEO: Pensacola job market grew 4.2 percent
Today, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity announced that the Pensacola area’s private sector employment grew 4.2 percent (+6,800 jobs) over the year in March 2023. The industries gaining the most jobs…
D’Angelo to head Pensacola CRA
Victoria D’Angelo has been selected as the Community Redevelopment Agency Division Manager for the City of Pensacola, responsible for planning, coordinating and managing programs and functions of the CRA. D’Angelo has been…
Larrison Campbell and ‘Devil in the Ditch’
On June 13, 2003, Martha Dyer Campbell, 85 was found dead by her sister in the garden room of her big house in the affluent Wilzin Park neighborhood of Greenville, Miss. She…
Fate of Warrington MS to be determined within two weeks
By Tom St. Myer The fate of Warrington Middle School will soon be determined. Escambia School Board Chairman Paul Fetsko said Friday, April 28, is the deadline for the school district to…
Escambia County Public Schools’ Music Education Program receives national honor
Pensacola, Florida – Escambia County Public Schools has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from The NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. This is the…
DeSantis targets Early Alert vendor for woking us
Gov. Ron DeSantis called for “swift accountability” over an emergency-alert test that went out to smartphones early Thursday. At 4:45 a.m., an alert was issued reading “TEST — This is a TEST…
Real News: Quint, UWF Argos, Twitter & Earth Day
Quint Studer talks about the fight to build the Community Maritime Park and Blue Wahoos Stadium. UWF Athletic Director Dave Scott discusses the Sandy Sansing. Sports Medicine Center, for which the university…
Palafox Market South coming May 13
Palafox Market is expanding its popular Saturday farmer’s market into a new area of Palafox Street in Downtown Pensacola starting May 13, and the Downtown Improvement Board has invited local farmers and…
Buzz: Belmont Hall moving to Port
Last year, the PNJ reported on Jordan Yee and Alistair McKenzie building a food hall and multi-purpose outdoor area in the parking lot across from the SCI Building on Garden Street. Belmont…
April 20 issue on the stands
Unleashing Your Inner Entrepreneur & Author With Jamari and Jamal Sharp of BAM! Snoballs By Savannah Evanoff The brothers behind BAM! Snoballs are something of a dynamic superhero duo, though you’ll…
Homework: Devil in the Ditch
Journalist Larrison Campbell returns to her hometown, Greenville, Mississippi, to reexamine the unsolved murder of her grandmother, Presh, 20 years after the death rocked the town and her family. I got turned…
Real News: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Commissioner Robert Bender previews the District 4 town hall set of 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, at the District 4 Community Center, 8800 N. 9th Ave. Escambia County School Board member…