Christmas break starts Dec. 19 in three Florida counties. The break starts Dec. 22 for the remaining counties in Florida.

A land acquisition approved by the state Wednesday includes 10,996 acres within the Caloosahatchee Big Cypress Corridor in ...

Escambia County's amended ordinance now bans camping day or night. The change will solve some problems and create new ones as ...

The Columbia County Conservation District has published its 2025 Plat Book. This is a 114-page loose leaf book (a companion ...

Commissioners in Escambia County unanimously passed two ordinances to keep homeless individuals safer, with new enforcement ...

The News Herald has been documenting Bay County's lost communities, or "ghost towns." Here's an interactive map of over 20 of ...

Brent Wipf, Water Quality and Land Management division manager in the Natural Resources Management Department, has been named the Escambia County 2025 Employee of the Year.

A U.S. appellate determined there's no need for a jury trial in an excessive force lawsuit brought against an Escambia deputy ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WALA) - The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has released an update in their investigation of this fire. According to investigators with the ECSO the two children were killed ...

CANTONMENT, Fla. -- A pregnant Cantonment woman's unborn child died in a crash overnight on Highway 29 in Escambia County, according to Florida Highway Patrol.I Pensacola homeless advocate arrested on ...

A federal judge rejected a First Amendment challenge to a 2023 decision by the Escambia County School Board to remove the book, which tells the story of two male penguins who raise a penguin chick.

Dozens of property owners in Escambia County have qualified for the FEMA funded Hazard Mitigation Grant Program – Voluntary Home Buyout program, but the process can take years and depend on funding ...