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| 4/26/2021 Insurance costs threaten Florida real-estate boom Florida’s property-insurance market is headed toward a crisis, as mounting carrier losses and rising premiums threaten the state’s booming real-estate market, according to insurance executives and industry analysts. Longtime homeowners are getting socked with double-digit rate increases or notices that their policies won’t be renewed. Out-of-state home buyers who have flocked to Florida during the pandemic are experiencing sticker shock. Insurers that are swimming in red ink are cutting back coverage in certain geographic ar...

As the traffic nightmares from the Pensacola Bay Bridge outage continue, south Santa Rosa County drivers say they’re fed up with the increased traffic on U.S. 98 at rush hour times as detour routes on Avalon Boulevard create miles-long backups on the already busy thoroughfare. The traffic, which is the worst in the morning, lunchtime and evening hours, consists of huge backlogs that can run from the left turn late at Avalon and U.S. 98 all the way into Gulf Breeze “proper,” or within the city limits. Since the Garcon Point Bridge is the designated detour route for drivers who would norm...

Schools will be closed Tuesday in both Escambia and Santa Rosa counties as emergency management officials on Monday afternoon were preparing for freezing cold temperatures overnight that could leave roadways and bridges covered in dangerous black ice. "We expect temperatures to drop significantly tonight, potentially into the low to mid 20s, even along the coast," said Brandon Black, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mobile, Alabama, on Monday afternoon. "So with temperatures like that, any spots with standing water will likely freeze. And that's how we get black ice."  ...

Local health departments have reported being overwhelmed by calls and inquiries, vaccine slots fill up within seconds of being posted and many confused and angry seniors are at a loss over how to navigate the complicated vaccine system.  While the state ShareCare line was originally billed as a catch-all system for all vaccine providers throughout the state, local officials now say the line can be used only to make appointments through county-run facilities, including the local health departments and local county-run vaccine clinics.  "(ShareCare) is really for anything run through the c...

5:24 Sandra Averhart reports on the start of COVID-19 vaccinations to seniors, age 65 and older, in Santa Rosa County. Santa Rosa County began administering COVID-19 vaccines to eligible residents Tuesday morning at the county health department. Additionally, on Wednesday, Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital plans to conduct two mass vaccination clinics, including one in Milton. In Santa Rosa, the COVID-19 vaccine is coming at a crucial time. “Our positivity rate is 29.2% and that’s significant. The state rate is 12.2%, so you can see we’re trending well above the state,” said Sandra Par...