The NAS Pensacola and the NAS Whiting Field community, home to Naval Station Pensacola and Naval Air Station Whiting Field, is one of five across the country named to the 2021 Class of Great American Defense Communities, the Association of Defense Communities (ADC) announced in conjunction with USAA, the program’s official sponsor.

The new Ascension Sacred Heart ER in Navarre held a ribbon-cutting Monday and will open to patients Tuesday, April 13 at 7 a.m., providing 24-hour emergency care to all ages.

Navarre ER, associated with Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, which held a ribbon cutting April 1, announced Monday that it would open at the same time.

That brings the total of emergency rooms in Navarre to three. Baptist Hospital opened theirs in the fall.

Less than two months after breaking ground on a distribution center in Alabama, Aldi has submitted plans for the construction of a Navarre store.

Santa Rosa County officials are expecting to respond this week to a site plan for a development that would bring a new Publix as well as other retail shops to a large parcel along U.S. Highway 98 on the eastern edge of the county.