Latvala removed as Appropriations chair while under investigation
Florida Senate President Joe Negron has removed Sen. Jack Latvala as Appropriations chairman while he is under investigation for sexual harassment. Here is the memo…
Latvala responds to harassment allegation
Sen. Jack Latvala’s Statement Regarding Anonymous Accusations “It’s hard to confront anonymous accusers, and even more difficult when the news is manufactured by a fake…
Latvala under sexual harassment investigation
By DARA KAM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Senate President Joe Negron late Friday ordered a probe into allegations that powerful Appropriations Chairman Jack Latvala…
Questions abound re:Bayview Community Center
People have begun to forward Inweekly their concerns regarding the $8.2 million Bayview Community Center that Mayor Ashton Hayward presented to the Pensacola City Council…
Alex Andrade to run for Florida House District 2 seat
Attorney Alex Andrade is filing to run for the Florida House District 2 seat currently held by Frank White. Andrade earlier this year was appointed…
Hate crimes: Homophobic flyers appear on UWF campus
Someone has distributed flyers containing homophobic slurs around the University of West Florida main campus. UWF President Martha Saunders sent this email to students, faculty…
Winners: Volume ONE & Autism Pensacola
Autism Pensacola shared this story of a special event held at Best of the Coast winner Volume ONE: “Five-year-old Hastings began his haircut in the…
Anonymous reader protests anonymous source
I got this letter from a reader upset that we protected the name of the recovering heroin addict who helped with the story “Heroin Crisis…
VT MAE Job Fair on Friday, Nov. 3 and Thursday, Nov. 9
On Friday, Oct. 27, VT MAE conducted a Career Information Event attended by over 100 prospective employees and vendors, including students from the Aviation Maintenance…
Anti-Catholic signs hung on fence outside historic downtown church
Someone has hung two anti-Catholic signs on the fence outside the entrance to the historic St. Joseph Catholic Church in downtown Pensacola, across from M.C….
Major Port of Pensacola revenues dropped nearly 30 percent since FY 2012, expected to drop another 21 percent in FY 2018
The Port of Pensacola’s four major revenue sources dropped nearly 30 percent from FY 2012 to FY 2016, according the city’s budget documents. The actual…
Downtown Pensacola wins another award
The Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association has named Downtown Pensacola its 2017 winner of its Great Places in Florida People’s Choice Award. Downtown…
Beulah Beltway update
By Duwayne Escobedo INWEEKLY Concerned about how the proposed four-lane Beulah Beltway might affect their homes, citizens turned out to view the proposed routes for…
City of Pensacola has yet to close sale of Blount School property
Six months after the Pensacola City Council approved the sale of the old Blount School property to local developer ParsCo LLC, the county property appraiser’s…
Who remembers the swimming pool at Bruce Beach
Inweekly is interested in talking to people who remember the “colored” swimming pool at Bruce Beach. If you look at the construction documents closely -slightly…
Floribama Shore coming to Panhandle
MTV today announced the return of its “Shore†franchise with “Floribama Shore.†The eight-episode run of “MTV Floribama Shore†will debut on Monday, Nov. 27…
DEP advertises for fish hatchery bids
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has posted its invitation for bids for the Florida Gulf Coast Marine Fisheries Hatchery and Enhancement Center. A mandatory…
City removes Corinne Jackson marker from Corinne Jones Park
The Corinne Jackson marker has been removed from Pensacola’s Corinne Jones Park. The marker, which misidentified African-American icon Corinne Jones, the first director of the…
United Way of Escambia County Taps Laura Gilliam as its new President and CEO
Pensacola, FL : Laura P. Gilliam, of Huntington, West Virginia, has been named President and CEO of the United Way of Escambia County, Northwest Florida’s…
See aerial footage of Bruce Beach
Watch this drone footage of Bruce Beach. You can see the two mitigation areas and the marsh conservation area. The site is larger that it…
