County Administrator Hunter Walker is, on average, exceeding Santa Rosa County Commissioners’ expectations, according to the commissioners’ performance appraisal.
Santa Rosa County commissioners elected to keep the 30-year submerged-land lease it has with the Florida Bureau of Public Land Administration for Navarre Beach.
State Rep. Doug Broxson, R-Midway, has withdrawn a bill that would have allowed development of oil and gas resources in the Blackwater River State Forest.
The Santa Rosa County Commission is holding a special meeting at 6 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Feb. 28, to discuss proposed changes to the wellfield protection ordinance.
Navarre was inundated with rainfall from Friday through Monday last week, Feb. 22-25. According to the National Weather Service in Mobile, Navarre recorded 9.05 inches of rainfall during the period.
Panera Bread, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., plans to open a standalone Panera Bread restaurant at the Sea Shell Collections Center in Gulf Breeze by the end of this year, making it the seventh Panera Bread between Pensacola and Sandestin.
Competitors in the 2013 Python Challenge trekked through more than a million acres of swamps and sawgrass in search of well-camouflaged Burmese pythons. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced the results last week: 68 Burmese pythons killed during the Jan. 12-Feb. 10 competition.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Ruby-throated hummingbirds are migrating to North America weeks earlier than in decades past, and research indicates that higher temperatures in their winter habitat may be the reason.
