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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.

A distribution company in Milton is looking to expand its footprint in Northwest Florida.

Goldring Gulf Distributing, which currently operates out of 192,000 square foot facility, is looking to build a 76,400 square foot expansion onto their facility in Santa Rosa Industrial Park in East Milton.

Last place. That’s where the University of West Florida football team is predicted to finish in the United Athletic Conference this coming season.

I’m not surprised. You shouldn’t be either.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the Key ring-necked snake and the rim rock crowned snake as endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the listing provides the protections afforded by the act to help conserve two of Florida’s rarest native snakes and support their recovery.

Caroline Powell has been named the new softball coach at Pensacola State.

Former Navarre Raider Michael Carter will start NFL training camp with a new team this season.

Carter was picked up by the Tennessee Titans in April,

Callan Taylor has spent a good portion of her life around Navarre High School.

Her parents are longtime teachers here and both are former coaches at the school. Taylor also played softball for the Raiders and was on the weightlifting team.

A woman died Sunday, July 19, after being rescued from a house fire Saturday, July 18, in the 2100 block of Villa Street. The fire was reported just before 8 p.m.

The 911 caller told dispatchers the rear porch of a home was on fire and that numerous vehicles were in the driveway. By the time Battalion 40 with the Holley-Navarre Fire District arrived, the fire had already spread into the attic.

A gymnastics coach and social media content creator from Navarre who had moved to Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty Monday, July 20, in federal court to multiple charges related to the production, possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material, as well as money laundering.

Theresa Mitchell, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to produce and distribute child sexual abuse material, two counts of production of child sexual abuse material, one count of receipt of child sexual abuse material, one count of possession of child sexual abuse material and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.