TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Home Builders Association has joined a legal battle to help defend a new state law that includes blocking cities and counties from approving “more restrictive or burdensome” changes to growth plans.
Only one named storm, Tropical Storm Chantal, and zero hurricanes made landfall in the continental United States this year, according to hurricane researchers and forecasters from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The cold weather shelter for the homeless and heatless will be open on the night of Friday, Dec. 19 at Ferris Hill Baptist Church, 6848 Chaffin St. in Milton.
A new law in Florida bans drivers from having “license plate obscuring devices.”
Passed during the 2025 Legislative Session under HB 253, the new law increases the penalty for knowingly altering a motor vehicle registration certificate, license plate, temporary license plate, mobile home sticker, validation sticker or obscuring a license plate from a noncriminal traffic infraction to a second-degree misdemeanor.
Sunday morning, Dec. 14, at approximately 9 a.m., firefighters with Navarre Beach Fire Rescue District were dispatched to assist two kayakers in distress offshore.
Patients and families at Studer Family Children’s hospital received a special visit from two members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron on Dec. 11, just before the holidays.
Col. Mark Hamilton, who is the commander of the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, stopped by Santa Rosa County school board Dec. 11 to celebrate the district’s purple star designation.
Kadie Moretz has been named assistant principal at Navarre High School. The appointment was announced and approved at the Santa Rosa County School Board’s Dec. 11 meeting.
Florida Department of Transportation wants to let Santa Rosa County drivers know of current and upcoming projects impacting area roads and bridges in the coming weeks.
