At its budget meeting on Tuesday, a majority of the Crestview City Council agreed to promote interim City Manager Jessica Leavins to city manager.

Okaloosa County officials intend on sticking with the existing and longtime countywide millage rate of 3.83 mills for fiscal year 2025-2026.

Dion’te Wingate, 24, of Crestview, Florida, has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to two counts of possessing with intent to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl.

A company that builds artificial reefs using cremated remains is constructing its first “seametery” offshore of Destin.

Residents ready to fence like a Three Musketeer, savor French culinary culture, and delve into the heritage of Crestview’s Sister City in France are invited to celebrate Bastille Day (a couple days early) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 12, at the Crestview History Museum in the historic Bush House.

In his new book titled “Mystery at Green Pond: The Murder of Bud and Nancy Davis by the Blackwell Brothers,” Destin author Ronald W. Collins chronicles the events that led to the shooting and killing of a Confederate Army veteran and his wife in Okaloosa County in 1917.

The heavy police presence during the latter hours of the recent May Day celebration in Crestview was needed to try to keep revelers safe, city Police Chief Steve McCosker told attendees of a post-May Day town hall meeting on Tuesday.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, Okaloosa County has a new growth management director.

Okaloosa County Emergency Medical Technician Jessica Freitas has received the county’s H.E.R.O. Award for disarming and helping a distraught woman in Mary Esther.