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Most Santa Rosa commissioners aren’t using the official Facebook pages –offered to them last year by the county—on which their postings could be monitored and archived as public records.

As county commissioners prepare to spend millions of dollars to improve drainage in Holley by the Sea, county staff members are coordinating with the Homeowners Association to better regulate how new construction will affect drainage in the neighborhood.

The current national Sunshine Week initiative (March 12-18) to educate the public about the importance of transparency in government finds Santa Rosa lagging in how it watchdogs officials’ mobile phone text messaging.

In July 1965, a man-made waterway was opened that connected the Santa Rosa Sound to the Gulf of Mexico across a span of Navarre Beach 450 yards west of Navarre Bridge, near the boundary line with Eglin Air Force Base.

After a year of uncertainty, Florida’s death penalty law is back on track with passage of a bill intended to correct a flaw in the current statute.

A Gulf Breeze man accused of possessing child pornography was indicted by a federal grand jury March 10.

One woman is dead and a child and adult are in the hospital after a head-on collision Sunday on U.S. Highway 98 in Navarre.

A plan to extend the school day by 30 minutes next year has been put on hold because of negative reaction from teachers, Santa Rosa school Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick says.

Grandparents raising grandchildren is more common than people realize.

Seven years ago the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission launched a program to generate interest in the outdoors among youth in the state and establish within them a lifelong love for fish and wildlife conservation.