DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, tail number A6224, maintained by U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Anthony Staley, 943rd Maintenance Squadron crew chief, and Senior Airman Harley Straps, 943rd MXS assistant crew chief, achieved a “black letter status” before its retirement at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., May 6, 2024.

Electric vehicle (EV) sales in the United States have skyrocketed since their emergence on the market in the 2010s. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which is under the direction of the Department of Transportation, from 2018 to 2021, EV sales doubled. In the years since, EV sales have continued to go up. In 2023, 1.6 million were sold, a 60% increase from the million sold the previous year.

Florida voters in the Nov. 5 general election will be asked to decide whether to approve Amendment 1, which would make school board elections partisan by including political party labels, such as Democrat and Republican, on the ballot next to a candidate’s name.

On the afternoon of June 5, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 385 into law. The bill, known as “Cassie Carli law,” will go into effect July 1.

Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old, they will not depart from it.”

Training children in the ways of God is just what the Wesleyan Child Care Center does. The childcare, on the campus of First Methodist Church, is located at 599 8th Ave., in Crestview.

A four-year initiative to modernize the day-to-day equipment of active-duty Air Force security forces defenders reached its fifth and final phase recently with the award of a $39 million contract for state-of-the-art defender gear.

According to a startling finding from the planning firm conducting the North Okaloosa Planning Study, the county’s existing future land use and zoning rules for the study area “provide for 129,535 dwelling units, supporting a population of 351,039 residents” by 2050.

City of Crestview employees continue removing debris left in the wake of the May 10 tornado.

Okaloosa County’s “SR 85 Crestview Evening Relief project,” which aims to increase vehicle capacity on an often-clogged stretch of State Road 85, is a small but vital piece of a much larger planned highway-widening initiative.

A multi-million dollar traffic management center might be ready to be built in Niceville next year, according to Okaloosa County Public Works Director Jason Autrey.