U.S. regional bilingual newspaper, La Costa Latina, beginning Saturday will extend its coverage area and will now be available from Mobile to Panama City, PNJ.com reported Tuesday.

The free newspaper is published in Spanish and English and will be the first such free paper in the Mobile area. The newspaper's circulation is expected to now reach 10,000 copies.

"We hope to be distributing from New Orleans to Tallahassee by year end," said Grace Resendez McCaffery, president and chief executive officer of Latino Media Gulf Coast Inc.

La Costa Latina can be picked up in Pensacola, Pace, Milton, Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Crestview, Niceville, Valparaiso, Fort Walton Beach and Destin in Northwest Florida; and Robertsdale, Foley, Summerdale and Gulf Shores in Alabama; and at the paper's website www.LaCostaLatina.com.