“The rains of Sept. 28 are an event that happens only once every hundred years,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Maniscalco referring to the amount of rain that fell within a six-hour period. “It was torrential.”

The Gulf Breeze Fire Department is reassessing how it responds to calls for medical help from senior living facilities as development plans move forward for a second one inside the city limits.

First responses to traffic accidents and other emergencies in Santa could be reduced by several minutes thanks to a planned alliance of vehicle dispatch responsibilities with Escambia County assistance workers.

Over the objections of several Santa Rosa County employees about the lack of raises, commissioners have passed a sizable budget increase for the new fiscal year without raising the property tax rate.

The Escambia County Jail inmates who have been housed in Santa Rosa since an explosion destroyed their facility in April 2014 are paying their own way as guests of Sheriff Wendell Hall.