A Pace man will spend the next five years in state prison after he found guilty to the death of his 10-month-old son after he was found dead in a hot car in 2021.

The Milton Train Depot is one of the last surviving passenger rail stations from Escambia to Walton counties, and volunteers who maintain it say the history preserved inside offers a glimpse of a service unlikely to return to Northwest Florida soon.

Residents of Santa Rosa County lined up for free trees April 22 during a combined Earth Day and Arbor Day celebration at Bagdad Mill Site Park, with most of the supply gone by midmorning.

As Florida lawmakers gathered April 28 for a special session to consider a new congressional map proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the debate landed close to home for with the area’s state senator filing the bill and local Democrats firing back.