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The Northwest Florida Chapter of NAIOP, a commercial real estate development association, sent a strongly worded “white paper” to city and county officials stating the…

Having whittled the list of projects vying for local RESTORE dollars down to a manageable 62, the Escambia County RESTORE Advisory Committee heard from about…

City of Pensacola’s Planning Services Administrator Sherry Morris and Inspection Services Administrator Bill Weeks have declined to meet with Inweekly to discuss the Long Hollow…

City Council considers EDATE, getting matching tattoos by Jeremy Morrison With the progression of a $50 million downtown development potentially on the line, the Pensacola…

By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The state’s business-recruitment agency, which Gov. Rick Scott uses for international trade missions, needs to do a…

The Escambia County Board of Commissioners this morning discussed the rash of deaths in the county jail. Inweekly and this blog were brought up several…

When Manna Food Pantries bought the old Pickens School property on Hayne Street, the Escambia County School District’s realtor, Danny Zimmern, told the non-profit that…

Inweekly has joined #AccessDenied Project, a new initiative of The Society of Professional Journalists and MuckRock launched today to gather journalists’ access issues when working with…

By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The outlook for production of Florida oranges, the state’s signature crop, continues to drop. For the second…

City Administrator Eric Olson said Wednesday night that he felt compelled to comment in regards to a former city employee stating that she was let…

PNJ reporter Will Isern is doing a follow-up story on the Long Hollow Radio Tower. Elizabeth Schrey spoke with Isern about how city staff knew…

Whether it was David Letterman signing off on the Late Show for the final time or Caitlyn Jenner accepting an award recognizing her courage, the most discussed and shared presentations of the year were thought-provoking, emotional…

Center for Health, Environment & Justice has called for Congress to reinstitute its “polluter’s pay fees” to give the EPA Superfund the financial stability to…

Elizabeth Schrey was the Planning Services staffer that presented the exception request for Manna’s proposed warehouse to the Planning Board. She told Inweekly that she…

By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The Senate isn’t ready to match a House proposal that would prevent local governments from regulating popular…

Yesterday, Florida Congressman David Jolly came on “Pensacola Speaks” (News Talk 1370 WCOA) to explain his speech on the House floor that called for Republican…

On Thursday, Nov. 19, Escambia County announced that 21-year old Samuel Devon Averheart had been found unresponsive in the infirmary unit of the Escambia County…

The nut of the issue lay in Pensacola City Councilman P.C. Wu’s primary reason for not wanting to tinker too much with the city’s efforts…

Congressman David Jolly, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, has called on Donald Trump to quit his presidential bid after the GOP front-runner said all Muslims…

Though the Pensacola City Council eventually decided to place the mayoral add-on onto its agenda for Wednesday, some members initially raised concerns about the request…