In celebration of National Parks Week, Gulf Islands National Seashore Superintendent Dan Brown is hitting the water for eight straight days paddling the entire length of the Florida District from Perdido Key to the East Pass in Destin. The “End to End Seashore Paddle” is 58 miles.

Although it may still be a bit jarring for some, it’s becoming more common to see people holding what looks like a cigarette, exhaling clouds of a milky white substance into the air at public places including shopping malls, grocery stores and airports.

Santa Rosa County commissioners voted April 25 to close the county’s 21 recycling drop-off sites until further notice due to health and safety risks from the overwhelming volume of recycling material not collected or processed by the county’s contractor, West Florida Recycling.

Just more than 34 years ago, a daring attempt to rescue 52 diplomats held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, ended in the death of eight service members, including five from Hurlburt Field’s 1st Special Operations Wing.

Sarah and Bridie love a little competition. And so does the dogs’ handler, Navarre resident Ute Kent. Kent has been participating in dog agility competitions with her two mixed breed pooches since 2007 and sometimes enjoys it just as much as her dogs do.