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A Santa Rosa County jury has awarded a $37,495,930 verdict to 28 plaintiffs affected by the 2021 Midway water crisis. Represented by Morgan & Morgan attorneys Mitchell Schermer, Benjamin Webster, Evin Dyess Childs, and Alexia Nyiri, the plaintiffs rejected pre-trial settlement offers, resulting in the multi-million-dollar verdict. In the Spring of 2021, a homeowner in […]

58 votes and .2 percent of the vote.

That is all that separates Kerry Smith from Jeff Ates in the Santa Rosa County Commission District 2 seat.

That .2 per cent of the vote is significant as an automatic recount is triggered when vote-getters are not separated by more than .5 percent of the vote.

The curtain is about to rise on a new era in high school athletics in Santa Rosa County as the newest high school in the county will compete this fall.

Ninth and 10th graders will be in the school in year one, which means there will only be freshmen and JV teams.

As the Blue Angels and other aerial acrobats took to the skies over the Emerald Coast this past weekend, one man sat in a stand on Pensacola Beach directing the entire event.

Paul Entrekin, a retired Marine and air show aviator, has been the air boss for the Pensacola Beach Air Show for 33 years.

Xylon Subido has looked good over the summer running the ball in practice.

And that’s a positive sign for a player expected to be a key part of the Raider backfield this season.

The University of West Florida football team is picked to finish last in the United Athletic Conference preseason poll.

Santa Rosa County commissioners will begin to direct staff to begin drafting ordinances to curb parking issues seen throughout the county; from vehicles parking on beach dunes to RV’s parked on county right-of-way.

A ‘family complex’ is in the works in Tiger Point.

Developers with B&A Architectural Group Inc. have submitted plans to Santa Rosa County Development Services to build 3,825 square foot building, along with green space, amenities and parking to a couple of parcels on Country Club Road.

Navarre’s volleyball team has spent the entire summer putting in work. From day one, head coach Sloane FitzHenry knew she was walking into a great situation as a first-year head coach.

Located in a strip mall on the north side of Highway 98 in Midway, Slidsters Tap House grew from owner Scott Day’s love of the American food staple.

Slidsters Tap House, which opened March 25, 2025, celebrated its first anniversary a few months ago and continues to grow, even as other restaurants struggle with the ebbs and flows of the economy.