Category: government

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office provides these arrest reports for publication:
  Oct. 11
●Edmundo Gamboa, 37, Crestview: fleeing/eluding police with disregard of safety to person or property…

DESTIN — Late registration is available for the Third Emerald Coast Transportation Symposium is Nov. 12 and 13 at  Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort  near Destin. 
Registration costs $250 per person.…

CRESTVIEW — Two of the city’s oldest churches have reverted to their original zoning following two unanimous votes of the City Council.
Councilmen on Monday passed ordinances freeing the First Pres…

CRESTVIEW — The late Durell Peaden is now known as more than a beloved country doctor and hard-working former state senator who sought to bring quality healthcare education to Crestview.
He is now,…

These projects are approved to receive RESTORE Act funding in Okaloosa County:
●Economic revitalization of Niceville’s Historic Old Downtown, $400,000. Objective is to acquire property in Niceville…

HOLT — Okaloosa County Commissioner Nathan Boyles wants to hear how Holt residents want the community to grow and develop.
He has scheduled an informal meeting — 5:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at the First Bapti…

Drivers will encounter these traffic disruptions as crews perform construction activities:
●U.S. Highway 331 across the Choctawhatchee Bay Bridge in Walton County: intermittent lane closures 7 p.m.…

CRESTVIEW — Alice Thomas’ fifth-graders at Antioch Elementary School in Crestview recently contacted the publisher of Rush Revere, the character Rush Limbaugh created to time-travel back into America…

Dear editor,
Please take some of the workers that know what they're doing, and know how to do something — besides trying to figure out how to spend all our tax money, and the B.P. oil money.
Plea…

CRESTVIEW — People who live in the P.J. Adams Parkway/Antioch Road corridor's eastern section — and who've for years heard rumors about traffic improvement plans — finally saw something tangible duri…