Category: local

CRESTVIEW — One local activist, accepting the Okaoosa Board of County Commissioners' challenge, is putting feet to the pavement to save the city's threatened bus routes. Commissioners, citing low rid…

CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Water and Sewer Crestview office will close from 12-4 p.m. Oct. 2. Contact the 311 Citizens Information Line for more information.

BAKER — Whether you’re snaking through a corn maze, firing a corn cannon or taking a haunted trail, you can get into the Halloween spirit starting this Friday in Baker.

LAUREL HILL — Safe Haven Horse Rescue Center rehabilitates and finds homes for abandoned and neglected members of the equine species, but the horses themselves can help rehabilitate and provide comfo…

LAUREL HILL — Following the Hobo Festival committee’s decision to cancel this year's event, two Laurel Hill organizations are stepping up with a substitute festival.

CRESTVIEW — Scurvy dogs of various degrees of proficiency had to learn their taekwondo forms Thursday or face their saber-wielding masters’ wrath.

CRESTVIEW — Former Mayor Ted Mathis, who died Thursday of congestive heart failure following a period of illness, served in City Hall from November 1987 until April 1995.

BAKER — Local businesses, two North Okaloosa churches and the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office are raising drug abuse awareness this weekend.

North Okaloosa County residents can donate new, unworn pajamas in infant through adult sizes for foster children who may have been abused or neglected and could use pajamas for a sense of security.