Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy Michael Neau passed through Santa Rosa County Tuesday morning on the way to his final resting place at Barrancas National Cemetery.

Adams Sanitation filed a lawsuit in circuit court Monday defending the right to appeal the rejection of its application to service the southern part of Santa Rosa County.

Being born on a busy beach can be an exhausting experience for a tiny turtle. The last of six loggerhead nests hatched last week on Navarre Beach.

A Navarre couple faces multiple felony charges after they were discovered passed out in a car with a 6-month-old baby unrestrained in the back seat.

Alexis Freeman, who is 22, and Randy Michael Smith, who is 23, were found in a parking lot on Page Bacon Road in Mary Esther about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

New Interim County Administrator DeVann Cook sent an email to staff Aug. 30 setting the tone for his administration and telling them what he expects.

It doesn’t really matter where I was 20 years ago Saturday, because I wasn’t in the Twin Towers or the Pentagon or flying over Pennsylvania.

But any American old enough to remember that day, remembers where they were when they heard what was happening, when they saw the images on television.

When the shell of an old Jet Ski washed up on Navarre Beach right after Hurricane Ida, a mini ecosystem washed up inside of it. Submitted photo

Santa Rosa County staff turnover has more than doubled compared to data from 2019 and 2020. And employees resigning in 2021 include a handful of high-level county employees, including the county administrator, the assistant county administrator, the public information officer and the head of the grants department.

Sept. 11 will not be forgotten in Navarre. At 8 a.m. on the 20th anniversary, firefighters will gather wearing 80 pounds of gear and climb 110 flights of stairs at Summerwinds Resort.

An update on how two big summer events fared on Navarre Beach led to a lengthy conversation at Thursday’s Tourist Development Council meeting about “disgusting” bathrooms.