Two candidates are competing to fill the District 5 Okaloosa County Commission seat currently held by Mel Ponder, who is not seeking a second four-year term.
Okaloosa County School District staff will be on-site for the upcoming Stuff the Bus School Supply Drive, which will help local students get the tools they need for the upcoming school year.
The topics of tourism, growth and infrastructure in Okaloosa County dominated much of the discussion in the portion of Thursday night’s county candidate forum that featured remarks from seven County Commissioner candidates.
On Thursday, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was on the scene at a residence north of Crestview with a subject who was barricaded in his home and refuses to come out. OCSO deputies went to the home Thursday to serve a warrant for threats. However, the individual then barricaded himself in the home. After several […]
Hub City officials are partnering with local attorney and landowner J.D. Wingard Jr. on a plan that aims to help motorists avoid a segment of the often traffic-clogged State Road 85.
As a boy, Jack Patten Jr. warily avoided black bears and other wild animals while working by the fifth hole of the nine-hole Crestview Country Club on Antioch Road.
Laurel Hill resident Travis Dewrell said the fire that recently destroyed his mother’s log cabin house was intentionally set, and that whoever caused it first stole cash, jewelry and guns from her safe.
On the Hub City’s Main Street, the historic Fox Theater building is about to undergo a major renovation while down the road, the building that housed the Crestview Plumbing and Hardware store remains available for lease.
On the rainy, early afternoon of May 10, and on the heels of an overnight storm that toppled trees and power lines and damaged businesses and homes in much of Crestview, crews were making progress on the Hub City’s Main Street Renovation project.
The EF-2 tornado that began blasting Okaloosa County around 3 a.m. Friday, May 10, toppled trees, damaged buildings and signs and downed power lines in much of Crestview but especially on the city’s north end.
