Spencer, Myers look to quash lease for $19 million hatchery project
Two Pensacola city council members are leading the charge to stop the $19 million Gulf Coast Marine Fisheries Hatchery & Enhancement Center from moving forward at the long-vacant city-owned...
View ArticleRemembering Bruce Beach’s history of segregation and industry in Pensacola
As a waterfront property in downtown Pensacola that has sat vacant for decades prepares to undergo a multi-million dollar restoration, we take a look back at the diverse history of Bruce Beach. Bruce...
View ArticleRoad diet planned for West Cervantes Street through Brownsville
The Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization is in the early stages to redesign West Cervantes Street through the historic Brownsville community west of downtown Pensacola, with a mission...
View ArticlePensacola airport sets all-time annual passenger record
Pensacola International Airport has set an all-time record for annual passenger traffic, with some 1,668,897 passengers traveling through the airport over the past year. The airport measures using a...
View ArticlePhotos: 102 years ago this week, naval aviation history was made in Pensacola
On November 5, 1915, Lt. Commander Henry C. Mustin’s Curtiss AB-2 seaplane catapulted off the deck of the USS North Carolina and soared over Pensacola Bay and into the pages of history. The flight was...
View ArticleUWF to offer new course on marketing Lionfish as food
Beginning this spring, the University of West Florida College of Business will offer a new course that will delve into the potential to market the highly invasive lionfish to consumers. The hope is...
View ArticleConstruction on Pensacola ferry’s downtown home is underway ahead of spring...
Construction on the Pensacola Bay passenger ferry service’s new homeport in downtown Pensacola is currently underway, leading up to the launch of the long-anticipated service by spring 2018. City of...
View ArticleFirst look: Pensacola’s new Bayview Center
Two years after Pensacola’s Bayview Community Center was razed, a new, modern facility is on track to soon take its place in Pensacola’s historic East Hill neighborhood at Bayview Park overlooking...
View ArticleUWF announces suspension of two fraternity and sorority organizations
Today, University of West Florida President Martha Saunders announced measures taken with two Fraternity & Sorority Life organizations. The Tau-Psi chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity has been...
View ArticleDowntown Pensacola’s Southtowne development to welcome first renters next month
The first apartments are nearing completion to welcome renters in December. More than two years ago, the walls of the former Pensacola News Journal headquarters on East Romana Street in downtown...
View ArticleUWF professors win $278,000 in National Science Foundation grants
Three University of West Florida professors have been awarded National Science Foundation grants totaling $278,880 which will benefit programs and research in the university’s biology department. The...
View ArticleCleanup at Carpenter Creek headwaters set for Dec. 9
Emerald Coastkeeper and Escambia County will host a “groundbreaking” and cleanup event at the headwaters of Carpenter Creek on Saturday, Dec. 9. The four-mile-long creek rises in north Pensacola and...
View ArticleDespite Trump opposition, Pentagon to allow transgender people to enlist
On Monday, the U.S. military announced that transgender people will be allowed to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite opposition from President Donald Trump. The announcement comes after...
View ArticleUWF raises $64 million as part of 50th anniversary campaign
The University of West Florida is celebrating the success of the 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign, which raised more than $64.4 million by almost 20,000 donors, including 55 planned gifts and nearly...
View ArticleUWF breaks ground on $27 million research lab
The University of West Florida Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering broke ground today on a Laboratory Sciences Annex, which will be connected to the Life Sciences Laboratory on the Pensacola...
View ArticleTrump plan would allow drilling off the Florida coast
A controversial proposal announced by the Trump administration would open up nearly all federal waters to offshore oil drilling, including the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Under the plan outlined on...
View ArticleSpecial “Leave No Trace” event to be held at Fort Pickens
The Gulf Islands National Seashore will welcome the Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers and Ocean Hour for a special day of learning about outdoor ethics and citizen science. The event will take...
View ArticleUWF to host Bob Graham during inaugural lecture series
The University of West Florida College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities will host Sen. Bob Graham on Jan 16. from 1 to 2:30 p.m. for the inaugural Seligman First Amendment Lecture Series. Dr....
View ArticleFlorida “off the table” in Trump’s expansion of offshore drilling
Less than a week after unveiling a plan to dramatically expand U.S. offshore oil drilling, the Trump administration is now saying the plan won’t include drilling off the Florida coast. The plan,...
View ArticlePensacola paves over historic brick street on federal holiday
Despite the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday, city contractors were working Monday to pave over historic bricks on Hayne Street in Pensacola’s Old East Hill neighborhood. The historic brick...
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