East Bay Boulevard at 6244 is now open following repairs made by public works crews. A metal road plate has been put in place over the roadway to make it safe for motorists to drive over this area as a temporary solution.

About 2 to 4 inches of rain have already fallen across southern Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties and an additional 1-inches is possible, according to the National Weather Service’s flash flood warning issued at 8:20 a.m. Monday morning.

There are already reports of standing water on roadways including State Road 87.

“We’ve got a lot of heavy standing water all the way up 87,” a dispatcher reported over the public safety scanner. “Slow down. Use caution.”

A Department of Environmental Protection investigation into reports of a fecal odor near Hidden Creek Golf Course found no evidence of abnormal operations, according to a press release sent out by Holley-Navarre Water System.

There have been no “exceedances” since January 2021, according to DEP’s response.

Heavy rains earlier this month led to a weeklong closure of The Club at Hidden Creek.

Thursday morning, there was no house at 7509 Gulf Boulevard.

By just after noon, one-quarter of a 3,000-plus square foot home had been trucked down the road, lifted and lowered into place. Within a few hours, that percentage was up to half. By sunset, the whole structure was expected to be in place on pilings.  

A 17-year-old Gulf Breeze teen has been cited for a Tuesday morning accident that tied up traffic on U.S. Highway 98 in the Tiger Point area.

The boy turned right from Central Parkway onto the highway, failing to notice a loaded dump truck in that lane. The truck driver, a 47-year-old man from Milton, tried to avoid hitting the teen’s vehicle, but struck the car anyway before overturning.

Three months after a kayaker pulled a young osprey out of the water, the bird was released at the Navarre Beach Marine Park.

It’s a funny thing getting old. Not funny like Comedy Central, but funny like interesting.

You spend decades getting there but somehow fail to notice, and then you wake up one morning and the world has tilted a bit on its axis.

The Holley-Navarre Fire District is one of 14 recipients in Florida of a grant that will help the district to hire an additional 12 firefighters.

A 25-foot sailboat that’s been leaning in shallow water right off the Navarre Park beach is under investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Spokeswoman Bekah Nelson said law enforcement was aware of it, calling it an “open and active investigation.”