The Santa Rosa County Commission officially hired Brad Baker as its new county administrator on Thursday.

An issue with a double-sided milk cooler caused Bagdad Elementary to score “unsatisfactory” on two recent inspections by the Department of Health in Santa Rosa.

Milton City Councilwoman/ECRC Board member Marilynn Farrow and District 3 Okaloosa County Commissioner/ECRC Board member Nathan Boyles are among the board members who are concerned that around $200,000 in taxpayers’ money might have been used to pay for the three-day gathering, which reportedly included a Cirque de Soleil-like party where ECRC CEO Austin Mount was […]

A man recently released from prison has been charged with kidnapping the same victim again. A neighbor who called 911 may have saved the victim’s life.

A nearly 6-hour Santa Rosa Board of Commissioners meeting April 25 revolved around a four-plus hour public forum session, with dozens of speakers voicing their opposition to a conceptual route that would extend the Pea Ridge Connector to connect to Berryhill Road.

Residents spent the first four hours of Thursday morning’s Santa Rosa County Commission meeting speaking out against a conceptual route that would extend the Pea Ridge Connector through farmland to connect to Berryhill Road.