Finding the right school for your children can be a difficult task. Selection can be even more complicated by variables related to income, location and student performance.

Two individuals in a Fort Walton Beach illegal gambling operation were ordered by a U.S. attorney to forfeit $5.8 million Monday.

In a fiscal year of high numbers for bed-tax collections, January saw a 41 percent increase in these fees paid by overnight visitors to Santa Rosa County.

A political action committee (PAC) is seeking to revive an effort to incorporate Navarre into a city, but they have some work to do before the county commissioners will entertain a ballot initiative necessary for the idea to move forward.

County commissioners plan to ask voters to raise the local option sales tax (LOST) in an August special election. This would extend and expand an existing half-cent LOST approved by voters in 2016.

Lighthouse Private Christian Academy announced the addition of the Lighthouse Academic Institute (LAI) to its growing academic campuses.