Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. (AFNS) – During exercise Red Flag 24-2, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps personnel trained alongside the Royal Netherlands Air Force from March 11-24.

To help mitigate growth, Okaloosa County officials should “put the onus on developers” and charge them an infrastructure impact fee of $25,000 for every acre of development, Crestview-area resident Ken Hose told District 3 County Commissioner Nathan Boyles Tuesday night in Baker.

Arlington, Va. (AFNS) – On Feb. 6, five Marines aboard a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter belonging to the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing were reported “overdue” while en route to San Diego, sparking a search and rescue mission for the missing service members.

The Okaloosa County Commission is “extremely grateful to God for what He’s done through your life so far,” District 1 Commissioner and Commission Chairman Paul Mixon recently told outgoing District 1 state Sen. Doug Broxson, R-Gulf Breeze.

Crestview –  We’re catching up on the last couple weeks of local history. This week we take a look at the local technological innovation that in about 35 years would lead to Crestview teenagers staying up all night gabbing with friends: the telephone.

Big-hearted physicians from North Okaloosa Medical Center donated $6,000 to the Crestview Area Shelter for the Homeless this morning in celebration of National Doctor’s Day.

An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office K9 was instrumental in the capture of a suspect in Crestview on Saturday.

For the second year in a row a Crestview High School student in the Building Trades program has won the Robert and Amy Harper Scholarship awarded by the Home Builders Institute.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday in Baker, District 3 Okaloosa County Commissioner Nathan Boyles will host a public town hall meeting about the ongoing North Okaloosa Planning Study.
The meeting will be held at Baker School gymnasium, 1369 14th St.

Baker resident Liz Bears quickly peeled stickers from pages and gave them to scores of north Okaloosa County area residents and other folks who filed past her at the Crestview Community Center on Wednesday evening.
The message on the stickers read, “Stop North Okaloosa Run Away Growth.”