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View Comments Pensacola and several groups that sued the city last year to stop the removal of the Confederate monument will hold mediation to attempt to settle the ongoing lawsuit over the monument's removal. The Ladies Memorial Association, the Stephen Mallory Camp 1315 Sons of Confederate Veterans, Save Our Southern Heritage Florida Chapter, Veterans Monuments of America and others sued the city last year after the City Council voted to remove the 129-year-old monument. A federal judge ruled in September that the groups lack standing to sue the city over the monument's removal, and the cit...

After a sometimes tense, more than an hour-long discussion Thursday night, the Pensacola City Council unanimously approved advertising two key parcels under the West Main Master Plan calling for a parking garage on the site. The city needs to advertise that it is open to proposals to lease the two properties under the West Main Master plan after Silver Hills Development Inc. walked away from its lease option agreement for the two parcels last month. Promoters of the West Main Master Plan have said that getting some type of parking garage built on the two parcels, called parcels No. 4 and No. ...

Pensacola's national police chief search down to three candidates The finalists are: John Ortolano, chief of police of Hobbs Police Department in Hobbs, New Mexico Eric Randall, assistant chief of police at Newport News Police Department in Newport News, Virginia Pensacola hired Public Sector Search & Consulting Inc. to conduct a nationwide search for Lyter's replacement. The search resulted in the selection of eight final candidates, who then were ranked by a city selection committee. The top three candidates chosen by the committee will participate in a public candidate forum, as well as...

The Pensacola City Council on Monday night unanimously approved a new tax incentive program under the city's Community Redevelopment Agency for development projects in the city's Waterfront Redevelopment District. The new program allows developers to claim a tax rebate on new property tax revenue generated by a project that meets the program's criteria. To qualify, a development has to create $40 million in taxable value to a property and meet other financial requirements, including having 10% of the value of the project committed to affordable or workforce housing, before it could be consid...