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Gulf Power asks customers to beware of people calling Northwest Florida residents and businesses impersonating utility company employees.

CRESTVIEW — Okaloosa County Airports officials wonder whether it's time to re-evaluate zoning restrictions at Bob Sikes Crestview Airport to prevent residential encroachment.

The Florida Corrections Accreditation Commission has named Okaloosa County Department of Corrections’ Tammy Matthews the Accreditation Manager of the Year. “Her positive attitude and overall willingn…

CRESTVIEW — Okaloosa County's newly hired airports director, Sunil Harman, wants to encourage growth around the region's longest runway, which currently is "sleepy,” he says.

CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Economic Development Council's new executive director came to town recently and liked what he saw.

CRESTVIEW — The topic of how the Airbus plant locating in Mobile, Ala., will affect Bob Sikes Crestview Airport has surfaced again at the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce.

CRESTVIEW — Construction on Hot Spot Cigars and Coffee is steadily moving along, co-owner Steve Lancaster said.

CRESTVIEW — A new saloon on U.S. Highway 90 allows patrons to support 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) families and help Niemann–Pick disease patients while they wet their whistles.

CRESTVIEW — Sometimes, North Okaloosa County is referred to as "L.A," for Lower Alabama, with which we have more in common than the beach resort-oriented south end of the county.

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s July unemployment report, released Friday, shows the state’s unemployment rate is 7.1 percent for the third month in a row. Likewise, jobless rates in…