State Sen. Don Gaetz said he will file legislation overhauling the Florida Department of Children and Families in the next legislative session, outlining 10 provisions at a news conference at the Santa Rosa County Courthouse on Sept. 4.
In a recording made sometime before his death, Antonio Austin Haner described what he believed was a campaign against him that went all the way to the federal level.
A Crestview woman being held without bond in Oklahoma on explosives and firearms charges is the widow of a 29-year-old who died in a standoff with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office last month.
Two Santa Rosa County commissioners said they would not support removing license plate readers from county right of way, a day after commissioners in Walton County voted 5-0 for their removal.
Crestview City Council members gave city staff the go-ahead Aug. 24 to draft an ordinance that would spell out how residents can sell cottage foods from stands within city limits.
The Crestview City Council has a full agenda for their meeting on Aug. 24; discussing cottage food code changes, animal control agreements, and rate changes for sewer customers. The meeting begins at 5 p.m. in the City of Crestview council chambers.
Okaloosa County commissioners voted unanimously Aug. 18 to approve a $24,656,085 contract that will turn county-provided transit from a daily operation to an application-based, on-demand service beginning Sept. 1.
Okaloosa County commissioners unanimously approved a list of proposed projects a renewed half-cent infrastructure surtax would pay for, spending most of the discussion making the case for the tax’s renewal on the Nov. 3 ballot.
With U.S. Rep. Jimmy Patronis taking 71 percent of the vote districtwide in the Aug. 18 Florida primary, the first-term congressman from Panama City will face off against Democratic challenger Gay Valimont in the November general election.
