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A developer has submitted plans to build four apartment buildings on a property west of River Run Road in Navarre. The apartment complex will be known as The Palmettos at Navarre.

The new plan is an update to previously submitted project plans. The property spans two parcels totaling 9.688 acres.

Tiger Point may soon be home to a Taco Bell restaurant.

CEFCO, which has expanded rapidly into Northwest Florida in the past five years, has a new name: Casey’s.

The Texas based convenience store chain was sold to Casey’s, a Midwest-based chain started in Iowa, in an all-cash transaction for $1.145 billion in 2024.

It was a little more than a year ago that Morgan Foshee told her boss she was quitting.

Morgan had been working in recruiting for Adobe, the software company behind Photoshop and the Portable Document Format. While the job paid the bills, she had larger aspirations.

The proposed Wawa on the south side of Highway 98 across from Edgewood Drive is one step closer to coming to fruition. The property is currently being cleared.

If you have visited Publix or any of the other stores and restaurants in the Shoppes of Navarre Plaza in the past few months, you may have noticed a section of the parking lot roped off. Located in front of Pet Nation, the area cordoned off features a sunken in drainage basin and grate cover. The area is now under construction.

Another gas station may be coming to Highway 87 S in Navarre.

A conceptual plan for a Circle K convenience store was submitted to Santa Rosa County Development Services on March 2 for 2716 Highway 87 S.

A political dispute over funding for immigration enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security has led to a partial government shutdown that is affecting federal employees, including those who work for the Transportation Security Administration.

With TSA employees not being paid during the shutdown, several airports are experiencing staffing shortages that have led to longer security lines. At airports in Atlanta, Houston and New Orleans, wait times have stretched several hours.

With an art career spanning 40 years, Dan Beck has built a name for himself.

Beck, an impressionist painter, has won numerous awards and recognitions for his artwork, which bridges traditional impressionism and contemporary art concepts.

Northwest Florida Construction Career Days celebrated a record-breaking sixth year in 2026.

The annual construction and transportation career fair drew more than 1,400 students and chaperones from schools across seven Northwest Florida counties. Counties involved in this year’s event included Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Jackson and Washington counties.