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Two audition sessions will be held for the Pensacola Children’s Chorus’ 27th Season at the Margaret Moore Nickelsen Center, 46 East Chase Street. Aug. 4:…

Keep Pensacola Beautiful would like to welcome its new Executive Director, Christopher Wise, who came on board mid-July. Christopher Wise is a Florida native and…

The “RALLY 2016” candidate forum for primary elections in Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties will air live, starting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday–Thursday, Aug….

The City of Pensacola boasts the Pensacola International Airport has the lowest rates in region – which includes Gulfport-Biloxi, Mobile, Okaloosa County and Tallahassee. We…

Friends of the West Florida Public Library have this message: Summertime, and the living is easy! You may have eased on through that stack of…

The Olympics are celebration of strength, endurance, and… science. Next week, August 1-7, the MESS Hall explores the science of sports. Test your reaction time…

Has the mayor’s office done anything to prepare for the state’s new marijuana industry? Last week, the Escambia Board of County Commissioners took the first…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack Hillary Clinton as she finished her acceptance speech: Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump No one has…

Quint Studer says the final drawings for his $14.4-million office building on Jefferson Street have been submitted to the City of Pensacola’s Architectural Review Board….

UWF President Dr. Judy Bense will be my guest today at 5:20 pm on News Talk 1370’s “Pensacola Speaks.” We will talk about how the…

Robert Blake Jackson, 31, of Pensacola, made an initial appearance today in federal court after being arrested this morning on a charge of making materially…

The City of Pensacola sent out a press release touting a FAA report that said Pensacola had the lowest airfares in the region. Inweekly went…

Yesterday, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum addressed the Democratic National Convention. He will be my guest on “Pensacola Speaks” today at 5:05 p.m. During his speech,…

There has been nearly no publicity that the Escambia County School District this past school year had six schools under state scrutiny for their low…

Today at 6 p.m., the Cpl JR Sears Detachment 066 of the Marine Corps League presents the third installment of its Heroes Among Us Speaker…

Continuing on its efforts to elect pro-jobs, pro-business candidates, the Florida Chamber of Commerce today announced an additional 34 candidate endorsements in competitive races for…

By ANDY METZGER STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE In the days after 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Gov. Rick Scott privately…

The impression one might get from looking at other media reports is that the state’s grading system was unfair and that Escambia County struggled like…

One of the biggest selling points of the strong-mayor charter was the candidates for mayor would have platforms that laid out the goals for their…

On News Talk 1370 WCOA today, I will open the show with PNJ editorial cartoonist Andy Marlette and discuss his takeaways from the RNC and…