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The Northwest Florida Water Management District can’t evaluate the impact of the proposed repeal of protections in the county’s comprehensive plan without “additional data and analysis,” according to a letter dated Jan. 19.

Website subscribers can read the full article and letter below.

Pointing to limited amounts of COVID-19 vaccine, Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees issued an advisory Thursday aimed at limiting vaccinations to residents and health-care workers.

Pointing to limited amounts of COVID-19 vaccine, Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees issued an advisory Thursday aimed at limiting vaccinations to residents and health-care workers.

U.S. Space Command headquarters going to Alabama is the latest evidence of Florida’s self-inflicted wounds from cutting back on business incentives, members of the Florida Economic Development Council argued Thursday.

With concrete poured for the first new bridge deck, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and its contractors are increasing all the necessary efforts to repair the Pensacola Bay Bridge by March 2021, according to the weekly press update.

In February 2020, FWC officers received information of illegal deer harvest that was taking place at night on private property without landowner permission.

Whiting Field has been named recipient of the 2021 Installation Excellence Award in the small base category.

Santa Rosa County, with help from partnering hospitals, has administered more than 11,000 COVID-19 vaccinations so far this month.

“We have another 8,000 on the waitlist still waiting for their first vaccine,” said Brandi Bates, public information officer for the county. “We’re at the mercy of the state as to when they send these to us.”

Recreational harvest of spotted seatrout is set to close Feb. 1 in the Western Panhandle, which stretches from Escambia County through portions of Gulf County.

Brien Carter and his family are headed out the door on a Saturday morning in early October.

They plan to grab breakfast at a local restaurant before making the all-too familiar 45-minute trip over to Sacred Heart in Pensacola.