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NorthEscambia.com reported last week that EREC and ConexonConnect have completed Escambia County’s fiber-to-the-home project for the county’s rural areas in District 5. County Commissioner Steven…

On WCOA this morning, Interim Supervisor of Elections Robert Bender gave his first full interview since Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the appointment at 2:20 p.m….

A Community Health Northwest Florida resident is a recipient of a $5,000 highly competitive research grant that will be used to help patients in underserved…

Congressman Matt Gaetz last week announced his 2024 Service Academy Nominations for Florida’s First Congressional District. These are the ones from Escambia and Santa Rosa…

Last Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Escambia County Commissioner Robert Bender to be the county’s interim Supervisor of Elections. The first time the public got…

Press Release: Governor Ron DeSantis Appoints Robert Bender as Escambia County Supervisor of Elections TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of…

On Apple TV+, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are once again revisiting WWII with the limited series “Masters of The Air,” about the Air Force…

On “Real News,” we often talk about Sena Maddison’s great-uncle, a WWII pilot killed on a bombing mission. This article was first published in Inweekly…

When the 2023 high school graduation class started high school in 2019, the ninth grade had 3,215 students. Four years later, the 12th grade had…

On Monday, the Florida Department of Education announced that the state’s 2022–23 high school graduation rate climbed to 88%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points…

Community Health Northwest Florida’s Chandra Smiley, Dr. Darrell Miller and Sena Maddison discuss the Point-in-Time Count, 340B, and the clinic’s new foundation. Florida Power &…

It’s hard to believe that anyone would consider this an accomplishment, but we did receive this press release. How hard was it to come up…