News Archive

Everyone is invited to the Hub City’s 2025 MLK March & Program that will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King. Jr.

Recreational and commercial blue crab traps in all waters from Franklin County to the Florida/Alabama state line must be removed from the water before Jan. 5, the first day of a 10-day trap closure. This closure will give groups authorized by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) the opportunity to identify and retrieve lost and abandoned blue crab traps from the water.

Okaloosa Beach Safety is currently hiring for seasonal lifeguards in preparation for the upcoming spring break and summer months.

The U.S. House Committee on Ethics released a report today alleging that former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz “regularly” paid women for sex, used illegal drugs and violated state laws.

S.O.: Girl threatened to conduct mass shooting at Crestview High

Vaida Jasmine McDougald, a 13-year-old Okaloosa Online Student who lives in the Deerland area east of Crestview, was arrested at her home on Dec. 2 on a second-degree felony charge of making an electronic threat of a mass shooting/terrorist act.

Mayor, councilors are sworn in

Returning Hub City Mayor J.B. Whitten and newly elected City Councilors Brandon Frost and Shannon Hayes were each sworn into office on Nov. 18 by the Rev. Paul Mixon, who is a pastor at Central Baptist Church in Crestview and the District 1 Okaloosa County commissioner.

Crestview celebrates its baby box

God put all the pieces into place for Crestview to have a Safe Haven Baby Box, then-City Councilor Cynthia Brown said at the Oct. 28 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the life-saving initiative.

September 11

Three hundred U.S. flags, or about one for every 10 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America, sway in the breeze sailing over the front yard of Barry and Arlene Barrett’s home at 6070 Old Bethel Road, just outside of Crestview’s city limits.

Fox Theater makeover begins

The major renovation of the historic Fox Theater building began on Aug. 6.

Baby box contract receives green light

The Crestview City Council on July 8 unanimously approved a five-year lease and service agreement with the Woodburn, Indiana-based Safe Haven Baby Boxes nonprofit organization to provide a baby box in the Hub City.