Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce officials on Tuesday attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for PenAir Credit Union’s new Crestview branch.

Crestview City Councilor Shannon Hayes recently was appointed to serve as the vice chair of the Florida League of Cities 2025-2026 Municipal Operations Policy Committee, one of the League’s five Legislative Policy Committees.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles recently received $13.6 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to support its partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the 287(g) Task Force Model.

The Okaloosa County School District has launched its new Champions of Education initiative, designed to provide community members with an inside look at the district.

The city of Crestview is accepting nominations for the Mae Reatha Coleman Citizen of the Year 2025.

An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit, alongside Okaloosa and Walton Correctional Institution teams, tirelessly tracked a fugitive through a swamp for several hours on Saturday before taking him into custody off Bill Lundy Road.

Travaess McLemore, 41, of Fort Walton Beach, was indicted by a federal grand jury, charging him with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine, John P. Heekin, United States attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced today.

A 48-year-old Laurel Hill woman died in a two-vehicle accident in Washington County early Friday morning.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then experience is the mother of innovation.

For a century now, Florida Power & Light Company has been restoring power to its customers after hurricanes, and, just as importantly, learning from each experience and working to improve its response after every storm.

More than $2.8 million in unlawfully retained bingo profits forfeited through criminal asset forfeiture actions have been sent to 10 Okaloosa County charities as part of the Department of Justice’s remission process, John P. Heekin, United States attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced today.