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The Santa Rosa County School Board unanimously approved a $528.9 million budget Sept. 10 for the upcoming fiscal year.

Santa Rosa County District Schools is recognizing National Suicide Prevention Month this September by connecting families with the mental health resources they may need.

Each September serves as National Suicide Prevention Month, a time to bring awareness to mental health issues and the resources that could save people’s lives.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide was responsible for 48,824 deaths in 2024, the most recent year the agency has statistics for. While this amounts to a little over 1.5 percent of the total deaths across the U.S., CDC stats show a profound increase in the suicide rate per 100,000 from 2001 to 2024.

A planned ice rink in Pace could break a cycle that has kept hockey stuck in limbo around Northwest Florida for years: too little ice to grow, and too small to draw the attention needed to get more.

Aaron Riley had signed a lease on a Willing Street business and begun repainting the store when he learned tattooing wasn’t allowed in downtown Milton. On Sept. 8, the City Council voted 4-3 to keep it that way.

Paid parking returns to downtown Pensacola on Oct. 5, ending the free parking period that the city put in place during the renovation of Palafox Street.

On Sept. 11, 2001, former U.S. Marshal Dominic Guadagnoli was in a morning briefing a few blocks from the World Trade Center when the first plane hit.

At that moment, an ordinary September day would be etched forever into Guadagnoli’s memory — and America’s.

Damaged metal signposts are getting a second life as underwater microhabitat for marine life in Northwest Florida.

Mayor Heather Lindsay proclaimed September as Suicide Awareness Month during a City Council meeting Sept. 8, presenting a proclamation to Pastor Bill Wright of Share Your Heart of Northwest Florida.

A Santa Rosa County jury found a state prison inmate guilty of manslaughter in connection of a 2022 incident where he strangled his cellmate to death, according to a news release from the State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden’s office.