News Archive

Crestview Mayor J.B. Whitten, with the help of Rocky Bayou Christian School and All in Credit Union, will host a prayer breakfast on Thursday, May 30 at the Crestview Community Center featuring guest speaker Clint Purvis.

C.W. Roberts Contracting Inc. will build Okaloosa County’s multi-use bridge-to-bridge path across a portion of Santa Rosa Island.

Three vehicles and a home were struck by bullets after multiple people fired weapons near Connor Drive, southeast of the Interstate 10 interchange, around 1 a.m. Monday.

The North Okaloosa Medical Center’s approximately $15 million ER expansion project could be completed in late 2025.

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — After a quick taxi out to Duke Field’s runway, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Geraghty spun up the 21-foot, electric aircraft’s 80-horsepower engine and zoomed forward.  The Pipistrel Velis Electro quietly lifted off heading north as the sun dipped in the west around dusk April 22.

An Emerald Coast Regional Council-hosted reception on Feb. 2 generated much interest because of the “outward appearance” that the event was self-promoting at the expense of taxpayers, Bay County Commission Chairman and ECRC Board Member Tommy Hamm said today.

The new, 286-seat Texas Roadhouse in Crestview is the type of growth the Hub City needs to see, Crestview City Councilman Ryan Bullard said shortly before the restaurant’s ribbon-cutting ceremony today.

In a prayer for Okaloosa County’s churches and faith-based community, the Rev. Sherrell Compton of New Life International Worship Center in Crestview asked God on Thursday evening to “grant us your divine wisdom, knowledge, understanding and discernment, so that we will know how to come in and go out in a manner that honors us.

More Crestview senior citizens should come and enjoy free meals and the chance to socialize with others at Crestview Manor, says Kim Fraley, executive director of the nonprofit Elder Services of Okaloosa County.

Baker Fire District officials are not “anti-growth,” says District Fire Chief Mark McKenzie.