Nemours Children’s Health and Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart have partnered to launch their “Kids Do Better When We Work Together” collaboration to provide families with better-coordinated, specialized and more accessible care. Through their agreement, many pediatric specialists are employed by Nemours and practice on the children’s hospital campus.

Breaking: Two juveniles, one 14 years old and the other 16 years old, arrested in connection to death of missing 14 year old.

Three former Emerald Coast Lawns employees were recently on trial for possession and use of fraudulent employment documents. Two of the men also pleaded guilty to illegal reentry by a removed alien.

Shortly before 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Dec. 2, an accident occurred on SR-87 N and Coldwater Church Road.

Effective Jan. 1, 2026, the Santa Rosa County Central Landfill’s Tipping Fees will increase as provided in the rate resolution passed by the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 9, 2023.

The cold weather shelter for the homeless and/or heatless will also be open the night of Thursday, Nov. 27 at Ferris Hill Baptist Church, 6848 Chaffin St. in Milton.

A portion of Bell Lane will be closed on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

Drivers in Santa Rosa County will encounter traffic disruptions on the following state roads as crews perform construction and maintenance activities. In preparation for the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend, there will be no lane closures or other activities that impede traffic on major state roads beginning at 12 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26 and ending at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30.

A fatality occurred on Old Bagdad Highway on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 20.

The Santa Rosa County Library System recently added 101 Wonderbooks to its collections, thanks to a grant administered through the Panhandle Library Access Network.