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Nearly 15,000 fans of blues, brews and barbecue are expected to take over downtown Crestview.
The 22nd Annual Triple B Festival is set for Saturday, March 28, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will take place on Main Street and several side streets and is organized by the nonprofit Main Street Crestview Association.

A Planning Commission meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m., April 9, in the Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners chambers in Shalimar. One item on the agenda has drawn the attention of several residents who plan to speak against issuing a development order for Buttonbush Meadows, a 22-lot community planned for the Galliver Cutoff area.

The Crestview City Council approved $200,000 in attorney fee reimbursements for two of the three police officers who were criminally charged and later cleared in connection with the 2021 death of a Crestview man, according to a City Council consent agenda item.

A 42-year-old Crestview man struck a 5-year-old boy in the parking lot of the Baker Sports Complex on Charlie Day Road around 6:15 p.m. March 12.

A Crestview man has been sentenced to two consecutive life terms without parole after a jury found him guilty of killing his parents and the family’s two dogs in a 2019 double homicide, according to a news release from the Office of State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden.

Choctawhatchee Electric Cooperative announced the students selected to represent the cooperative in the 2026 Youth Tour program, including four delegates who will travel to Washington, D.C., this summer.

Okaloosa County approves $333K allocation of tourist development dollars to improve Brookmeade RC track in Crestview.

Businesses, organizations and krewes were on hand tossing beads and Moon Pies for the Mardi Gras parade hosted by Downtown Crestview, the City of Crestview and North Okaloosa Medical Center.

A Planning Commission meeting originally scheduled for Thursday evening, is slated for Thursday, April 9, at the Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners chambers in Shalimar. One item on the agenda has drawn the attention of several residents who plan to speak against issuing a development order for Buttonbush Meadows, a 22-lot community planned for the Galliver Cutoff area.

In some areas of Northwest Florida, gas prices at the pump have jumped nearly 50 cents since Sunday morning.