Northwest Florida State College (NWFSC) has been recognized as a Gold-level Military Friendly® School for the 2025-2026 academic year, a prestigious designation awarded following an independent evaluation of more than 1,800 colleges and universities nationwide. NWFSC...

Please be advised that the City of Freeport Election will be held on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.  Polls at the Freeport City Hall will open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m.  If you area a registered voter in the city limits of Freeport by June 9, 2025, you may cast your...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David Flosi hosted more than 500 newly-selected chief master sergeants for the inaugural Chief Initial Mission Command Training May 19–23 at Fort Walton Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. CIMCT...

South Walton Fire District firefighters responded to a residential structure fire around midnight Friday morning. The incident originated at 12:34 a.m. when SWFD Dispatchers received a 911 call reporting a large, three-story home on fire on N. Winston Lane. The fire...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- The 96th Test Wing, under agreements with the U.S. Coast Guard, developed a new test site providing instrumentation support to test and training missions in the Eglin’s gulf test range. The wing’s test organizations track, measure,...

Wednesday evening, the South Walton Fire District's C-Shift firefighters and the Florida Forest Service-Chipola District responded to a brushfire near Whispering Shore Cove in Santa Rosa Beach. The fire covered approximately 2.5 acres, but fortunately surrounding...

It was a dark and stormy day on May 10th, and the Choctawhatchee Bay was churning like no other. With tornado warnings in the area, the weather was worsening by the minute. At about 3 o'clock, dispatch got a call from a passerby at Grady Brown Park about a jet-ski...