Who should be named Pensacola News Journal's Student of the Week? Cast your vote
The Pensacola News Journal is working with high schools in Escambia and Santa Rosa County to put their top students in the spotlight every week.
National Weather Service changes maps to read Gulf of America instead of Gulf of Mexico
The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho de la Nueva España, and, finally Gulf of Mexico.