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Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh made his case to win over his new constituents at a town hall event Monday night in Pensacola, Florida.

A planned roundabout for the intersection of Perdido Key Drive and Johnson Beach Road now has funding to move forward.

Shorebirds need sandy beach dunes to protect their nests from predators each summer, but after Hurricane Sally destroyed most beach crossovers on Perdido Key, officials are worried about beachgoers walking over the dunes and potentially crushing the endangered species' eggs. Perdido Key was among the most significantly damaged portions of the Panhandle after Hurricane Sally ravaged the region in September. The community still has many blue-tarped roofs, washed-out roads and downed fences, even without counting the extensive property damage to some homes and businesses. “I don’t think har...

P.E.I. bank swallows under threat from climate change Staff from Island Nature Trust, watershed groups and volunteers walked hundreds of kilometres of P.E.I.'s shoreline last summer, looking for colonies of bank swallows. It's a threatened species in Canada, having experienced a 98 per cent population decline over the last 40 years. Social Sharing