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Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners will return to two meetings this week as commissioners will hold meetings at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, and Thursday, Oct. 8.

Public comment is expected to be dominated by the proposed Navarre Beach Boardwalk, for which the county will host a public workshop at 6 p.m. Oct. 19 in Milton.

Central School science teacher Chris Trantham didn’t think teaching was something he would choose as a career, but a couple of curveballs in the game of life put him on the track he is on now.

When doctors sent Kathy Troup home on hospice care after emergency spinal surgery in May, she was told she might have two months to live. Her daughter left college in Gainesville to care for her and pushed for a second opinion.

A 64-year-old Milton man was arrested for allegedly trying to solicit a minor, but he was actually communicating with two undercover agents, according to a news release from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Milton officials have begun reviewing the city’s zoning rules after the City Council rejected an ordinance that would have allowed a tattoo shop to open downtown.

Roxanna Ford’s love of teaching came to her in childhood as she did homework on her mother’s chalkboard.

Drivers who take Berryhill Road every day will soon have a new breakfast option.

Eight additional harvest days have been added to the 2026 Gulf private recreational red snapper season, allowing harvest to remain open continuously from Oct. 9 through Oct. 22.

These additional days will align recreational red snapper fishing opportunities across Florida’s Gulf and Atlantic coasts.

It took less than two hours of deliberation for a Fort Walton Beach jury to find former Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy Eddie Duran not guilty in connection with the 2024 shooting death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson.

Another bear hunt is in the works for December.

Last year, a bear hunt was held in four specified hunting zones. The zones were within four of the seven Bear Management Units across the state. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), which approved and regulated the hunt, approximately 52 black bears were harvested, or killed.