Crestview City Manager Jessica Leavins will receive a 6.5 percent raise for fiscal year 2027, following a favorable evaluation and unanimous approval by the Crestview City Council at its Sept. 14 meeting.

Crestview water and sewer rates will increase 12 percent beginning Oct. 1 as part of a package of utility rate and city service fee increases approved by the City Council on Sept. 14.

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.

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.

About 30 people were standing at the Defiance County line on July 18, waiting on a man from Crestview to drive past a sign.

John Vaughn had told them to be there. Or rather, the president of a travel club had, and the club president had gotten carried away with it.

“He said, ‘everybody wants to go out there and see John Vaughn cross the county line and finish his final county,’” Vaughn recalled. “3,143 counties.”

The Crestview Planning and Development Board voted Aug. 3 to recommend that the City Council approve a rezoning request for a nearly 37-acre lot that will be home to 72 new single-family homes.

There’s a place in Crestview where you can watch fencing demos, flip crêpes, sample éclairs and learn about the city’s relationship with Noirmoutier, all in the air-conditioned comfort of a century-old historic residence and its museum.

The Crestview City Council voted unanimously on May 11 to authorize City Manager Jessica Leavins to negotiate a one-year deal with Crestview High’s swim coach David Hernandez to manage the pool at the Crestview Recreation Center.

Okaloosa County commissioners voted unanimously April 7 to partner with Divers Alert Network, a nonprofit recognized worldwide for dive safety research and emergency medicine, as the county prepares to sink the SS United States as an artificial reef.