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When a school bus is stopped and has its stop arm extended, vehicles are not legally allowed to pass. However, school buses are passed illegally over 17 million times a year in North America.

Santa Rosa County school district is taking part in a bus camera pilot program to reduce this number and keep children safe.

The county commissioners plan to give their undivided attention to the citizens and their governmental duty with a vote on restricting personal device use of anyone on the dais during public meetings.

After receiving a written resignation less than 10 days ago, the Board of County Commissioners began discussing how to replace Dan Schebler’s role of County Administrator.

Gulf Islands National Seashore will be conducting conduct lionfish research in the water west of the Fort Pickens fishing pier this year. The most recent survey was July 22.

An animal suspected of being in the whale family was reported off Pensacola Beach Tuesday.

COVID-19 positivity rates are rising in Santa Rosa County, a trend that is also being seen statewide. As of July 9, 43% of county residents had been vaccinated, which ranks it 39th out of the state’s 67 counties.

Like Tom Brady moving from the AFC to the NFC and still finding a way to win the Super Bowl, the Navarre Press moved into a higher division at the Florida Press Association Weekly Newspaper Contest and didn’t miss a beat.

Crews from the Florida Department of Transportation spent two days cleaning excess vegetation out of the ditch running along the north side of U.S. Highway 98 in an area that has been flooding recently.

Just after 9 p.m. July 13, near the midway point of a Santa Rosa County Board of Commissioners meeting that would last more than eight hours, an email went out.

After the use of racial slurs on multiple occasions within 15 months, a county employee has been fired.