News Archive

Santa Rosa County will move the Florida First Judicial Circuit Court into a $42-million new facility this summer, but it hasn’t decided what the future holds for the 95-year-old downtown Milton courthouse.

“My preference would be to sell it to the public and hope they can do something useful with it,” Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Bob Cole said last week.

With primary elections for Florida’s 2022 races just a month away, candidates and voters alike are looking to exchange more information on themselves and what they want to see done in government.

On July 12, the Greater Navarre Area Chamber of Commerce held a forum to do just that.

There has been quite a bit of controversy over the past couple years surrounding the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially around vaccines.

Earlier this year, unvaccinated service members were forced to separate from the military. One of these people was Jordan Karr.

A developer wants more potential commercial space on a 23-acre parcel between U.S. Highway 98 and Santa Rosa Sound in Navarre without giving up home sites.

“The question for me is, in order to accommodate two more acres of (highway commercial district use), do we go forward with this?” Santa Rosa County Zoning Board member Ed Carson asked at the board’s July 14 meeting.

The Florida Department of Health is reporting a “probable” case of monkeypox in Santa Rosa County. The department is waiting on confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control. Overall, as of Saturday, the department reported 180 confirmed and probable cases in Florida. According to the department, Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by a virus […]

The county is getting a deal on property in Holley by the Sea, according to Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Bob Cole.

Homelessness is a pervading issue in the United States, particularly in American cities, but one group that suffers from homelessness often gets overlooked.

Most people think of those with substance abuse issues or other problems as comprising a large portion of the homeless population, but senior citizens comprise half of the homeless population across the United States, according to one report published in The Gerontologist in 2016.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents and officers from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations, and the FBI arrested Gary David Goeke, 68, of Gulf Breeze on July 12. He was arrested for 30 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material and one count of promotion of the sexual performance of a child.

Heavy rainfall and localized flash flooding, particularly of low lying and urban areas, is possible beginning late today, Tues., July 12, with the threat increasing through Sunday morning, according to the US National Weather Service in Mobile.

Two to four inches of rainfall are possible north of I-10 with those closer to the coast receiving four to six inches of rainfall. Storms could train over the area increasing the threat of flash flooding.

In the classic baseball movie “Field of Dreams,” a voice in the corn famously told Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella “If you build it, he will come.”

Joey Harrell, the Santa Rosa County School District’s assistant superintendent of administrative services, said at a workshop last month that Florida schools are guided by the opposite edict when planning any expansion: “When they come, we can build it.”