Tallahassee – Gov. Ron DeSantis warned time is “running out quickly” for people to prepare for large, life-threatening Hurricane Helene, which was already a Category 2 storm Thursday morning as it raced toward making landfall on North Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Florida Power & Light said it is ready to respond at Hurricane Helene approaches the state.

With Hurricane Helene hitting to the east of Santa Rosa County, many in the county are getting ready to help with recovery in harder hit areas of Florida. 

It’s a nice day in Santa Rosa County, making it hard to believe a hurricane will make landfall hundreds of miles to our east.

As Hurricane Helene gets closer to moving out of the Gulf and onto land, evacuees have driven to Santa Rosa County to seek shelter from the storm.

The National Hurricane Center released its 10 p.m. update on Hurricane Helene, which continues to show the eye of the storm hitting in Florida’s “big bend” area. 

Santa Rosa County has been added to a wind advisory by the National Weather Service. On Wednesday morning, only the coastal areas of Santa Rosa County were put under the wind advisory, but now the entire county has been added. The path of Hurricane Helene, updated at 4 p.m. CT, still remains far to Santa […]

In a surprise decision Thursday afternoon, Santa Rosa County District Schools reversed course and canceled school for Thursday.

The National Hurricane Center released its 1 p.m. CT update on Hurricane Helene, providing the latest track for the storm, which remains relatively unchanged. 

Tallahassee – Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that “time is running out” for Gulf Coast residents, particularly in North Florida’s Big Bend region, to finalize preparations as powerful Hurricane Helene is poised to slam into the state Thursday.