Teatime is coming back to the historic Bush House on Saturday, Jan. 24 and will make a perfect chilly winter day’s respite.

Starting on Tuesday, Jan. 27, University of West Florida officials plan to host the UWF Business Academy at the university’s Emerald Coast Campus.

There is a high demand from residents in the Crestview, Baker and Laurel Hill areas for locally sourced beef, chicken, and eggs, as well as fresh sourdough, business partners Jordan Weldon and Shaun Clifton said on Thursday.

Based on the concerns of various area residents, and for informational purposes only, Jason Autrey, Okaloosa County’s deputy county administrator of development services, gave an in-depth presentation on license plate readers at Tuesday’s County Commission meeting.

As the U.S. House of Representatives and the rest of the nation wrapped up 2025, Crestview Bulletin spoke with Jimmy Patronis, the Republican representative of Florida’s 1st Congressional District, about his expectations and legislative priorities for 2026.

For the 2026 calendar year, all public, regular Okaloosa County School Board meetings will begin at 5 p.m. instead of 6 p.m.

Members of Hope Crest Church invite the community to help commemorate the church’s first anniversary at the fun and family-friendly Celebration of Hope.

During a public hearing at Tuesday’s Okaloosa County Commission meeting, at which the board discussed an agreement on park land for the future Independence subdivision near Crestview, county resident Lakeisha Deloach expressed several concerns that many other area residents share.

Nineteen-year-old Debra Espey was a quiet, sweet, all-American girl, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office officials said Tuesday in a news release.

The biological parents of a three-month-old boy recently were arrested by Crestview Police after the couple allegedly inflicted or permitted the infliction of serious bodily injury to the infant.