News Archive

Nearly three years after the City of Gulf Breeze started levying water utility surcharges on its customers who lives outside the municipality’s border, the Florida Auditor General’s Office is looking into numerous complaints about those fees.

The Club II in Gulf Breeze had unwelcome visitors last month, and Facebook landed two of those alleged intruders behind bars.

The Holley by the Sea Homeowners Association has secured $65,000 in grant money to combat black bears in the neighborhood.

November is Manatee Awareness Month and the state of the species is far better than it used to be, with Florida manatees now listed as threatened rather than endangered.

Staff Sgt. Kamyla Felder took a roundabout path to get to where she is now. After spending two years at Emory University in Atlanta studying international relations and Arabic, she decided she wanted something else.

I found it interesting when Jennifer Dantin mentioned some kids had never played in dirt in the adjacent article. While it seems hard to believe, it really isn’t. The world we live in these days is very clean and very busy. I was reminded, however, of a practice I heard about a few years ago that blew my mind.

Snack time and lunch are always exciting parts of the day for kids at school. Would it be shocking to hear that students at our schools are choosing salad for their lunch? Would it be even crazier to hear they are eating salad made from plants they had planted and harvested themselves?

A Milton man is facing attempted murder charges after a stabbing Nov. 9 that put two people in the hospital.

Allegations that three of Fairpoint Regional Utility’s seven board members violated Florida’s Sunshine Law by meeting in private last month are under review by the State Attorney’s Office in Pensacola.

When David Piech threw his hat into the ring for District 4 County Commissioner early this month, he did not think of it as a career move. He said he honestly does not think of it as a job at all.