For nearly ten years, the local unit of the Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) program has been providing a way for Navarre area kids to improve their reading skills with a special kind of partner- a registered therapy dog.
Santa Rosa County Commissioners voted to fund a three percent raise for county employees without increasing property taxes at Monday’s final budget hearing. The move seemed to satisfy an overflow crowd of not only off-duty deputies and other county employees seeking raises, but also local tea party activists opposing tax hikes.
Navarre resident Shane Rainwater knew that Lily, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, was in a lot of pain after his daughter’s boyfriend found the dog lying on his porch, but he did not know that the pain was from a gunshot wound.
The Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida will celebrate 31 years as a wildlife rescue non-profit with WILDfest Open House 2013, tobe held from noon – 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, September at the Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida in Pensacola.
PENSACOLA — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission passed an immediate ban on the importation of deer from other states and countries on Friday, a move intended to protect Florida deer from a deadly mad cow-like disease.
Bowfishing is gaining popularity across the Emerald Coast, but yet there is often much confusion about exactly where and how anglers can partake in this sport.
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE – After months of preparation the weapons troop standardization load crew, or SLC, from the 33rd Maintenance Group performed the first munitions load verification on the F-35A Lightning II at Eglin Air Force base in late August.
Junior Cadet Samantha Combs and Senior Cadet Riley Roberson were recently honored as Navarre High School’s Raider Battalion Cadets of the Month for August.
The effectiveness of a new genomic screening method that could help predict possible infections and complications in patients with severe traumatic injuries will be studied through a four-year, $1.8 million grant to University of Florida researchers from the National Institutes of Health.
Mention the month of October and the color pink to people and they will almost immediately think of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. What people might be less likely to recognize is that September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, which dedicates the month to raising awareness and educating women on ovarian cancer, the fifth leading cause of cancer-related death in women.
