After 50 years, the Berrydale Volunteer Fire Department in Jay is planning for a new building.

The current building utilized by the fire department was built by the original volunteer firefighters, but renovations have gotten expensive, and plans are in place to demolish the current structure and build a new one.

Eight people, including six children, were transported to Sacred Heart Hospital after a wreck in Escambia County on Sunday.

Governor Ron DeSantis awarded workforce development and infrastructure improvements funds through the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund (JGGF) and the Defense Infrastructure Grant (DIG). Awards were made to Pensacola State College, the city of DeFuniak Springs, Santa Rosa County, and Jackson County for projects that will support the aviation and aerospace industry, the military and defense industry, and increase access to workforce housing.

Santa Rosa County School District students have been waiting on their high school transcripts to send to colleges, but they aren’t alone. Other Florida school districts have had to wait too, as the slowed process this year is not immune to Santa Rosa County.

Two people were seriously injured in an accident on the Fourth of July on Interstate 10 in Santa Rosa County.

An explosion, heard from more than 20 miles away, rocked and decimated the walls of the barracks near King Abdulaziz Air Base as frantic screams of terror pour out of the building. 

When news broke of the death of a Jay Volunteer Fire Department firefighter in an off-duty motor vehicle crash, there was outpouring of grief and condolences from the firefighting community in Santa Rosa County and beyond.

Search and rescue can be difficult, especially if the person you are trying to locate is lost in the woods and can’t be identified at a specific address.

That is where What3Words comes in. What3Words is a proprietary geocode system designed in 2013 to identify any location on the surface of the Earth with 3-meter by 3-meter squares. Each square is identified by three unique words.

On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis awarded funds for workforce development and infrastructure improvements through the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund (JGGF) and the Defense Infrastructure Grant (DIG).

Santa Rosa County has been approved for its own Veterans Treatment Court, a program with the mission of keeping veterans out of jail by providing one-on-one mentors and resources that help with issues such as mental health and substance abuse.