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Governor Ron DeSantis announced that more than 7,500 students have earned an entrepreneurship and small business (ESB) certification between July 1, 2021, and March 31, 2022. Due to Florida’s leadership (accounting for…

Leadership Pensacola Graduates Class of 2022 Pensacola, FL – The Pensacola Chamber Foundation announces the following graduates of the 2022 Leadership Pensacola class: Brad Alexander                                                              Kaycee Legarde Jerry Pate Design                                                          City of…

Pensacola Mayoral Candidates Field WRL Questions by Jeremy Morrison A quartet of Pensacola mayoral candidates fielded questions Thursday on a range of topics, from the very specific, such as the issue with…

The former head of security and school safety for the Escambia County School District, Steve Sharp, talks about hardening schools to protect children, teachers and staff. Professor Jane Halonen talks about her…

International Paper, in partnership with Celebrate Planet Earth, provided 631 kindergarten through fourth grade classrooms in Escambia and Santa Rosa county school districts with free butterfly and sunflower kits, enabling local children…

Construction activities will begin at the end of May on a $4.4 million project to mill and resurface a 2.4-mile segment of Sorrento Road (State Road 292) from the Theo Baars Bridge…

Largest Species of Sea Turtle Makes Rare Return by Jeremy Morrison It’s been a long time coming, but a leatherback sea turtle has again been seen on Pensacola Beach. A large female…

The City of Pensacola has completed repairs to the Sanders Beach pier and boardwalk that was damaged during Hurricane Sally. The project included boardwalk repairs, landscaping and new sidewalks. The public’s patience is…

Axios reports 14 of the 21 victims — 19 kids and two of their teachers — have been identified so far. The victims were all in the same classroom, law enforcement said….

Pensacola Councilman Delarian Wiggins and Jennifer Grove, vice president of external relations for Baptist Health Care, discuss the vision that Baptist Health Care has for its campus in the West Moreno District….

By Jeremy Morrison Knowing that the waters off Bruce Beach in downtown Pensacola are fouled with human waste is one thing. Figuring out the source of the contamination is quite another. This…

By Jim Turner and Tom Urban, The News Service of Florida In the wake of Tuesday’s school shooting in Texas, Democratic lawmakers in Florida called on their Republican colleagues to use time…

Commissioner Lumon May talks about the life of Carla Williams, the associated PSC professor gunned down at local gym. ABC New’s Aaron Katersky shares the latest on the mass shooting at an…

Project Titan, the $210 million Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facility expansion at Pensacola International Airport, has hit a tremendous milestone in the construction phase. Construction crews from Brasfield & Gorrie recently…

Pensacola, Fla. – Five University of West Florida students recently collected donations to help furnish Set Free Refuge, a transitional living home in south Santa Rosa County for sex trafficking victims. The…

The Santa Rosa Island Authority (SRIA) will launch its free, open-air trolley service along Pensacola Beach this Memorial Day weekend, beginning Friday, May 27. The 2022 Pensacola Beach Island Trolley, operated by Escambia…

By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida MIRAMAR BEACH — Florida’s top elections official said Tuesday that voters should be confident in the state’s voting process, including when casting ballots by…

At 4:26 a.m. this morning, a woman was shot and killed by a who man walked into Pensacola Fitness on North Ninth Avenue and fired several shots at her as she was…

Pensacola, Fla. (May 24, 2022) – Today, the Pensacola Foo Foo Festival Committee announced the public grant scoring for the eighth annual Foo Foo Festival, naming 12 grant recipients and allocating more…