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The county's budget In 2014, when I first became a commissioner, had a reserve of $6.5 million.This fiscal year, we hope to have a reserve of 15 million dollars. This has been an intentional effort by a fiscally conservative Board of County Commissioners. We watched our neighboring county need a tremendous reserve to address the devastation of Hurricane Michael. This past summer, Okaloosa County was faced with a significant budget deficit due to the economic downturn created when businesses were forced to shutter due to COVID-19. Okaloosa County alone was faced with an estimated $7 million d...

Okaloosa County voters will head back to the polls in early March to vote in a number of municipal elections. A total of 10 municipal seats across Fort Walton Beach, Laurel Hill and Shalimar are on the ballot March 9, although in many instances the candidates who qualified for the seats are running unopposed. Also on the ballot are a pair of local referendums: One will ask whether Laurel Hill voters favor dissolving the city to become an unincorporated part of Okaloosa County. The other would amend Destin's charter to prevent the city from conveying, selling, leasing or otherwise transferr...

Mimi Ramirez, Lantz's aunt and the sister of Robin Lantz, the woman he killed, said she learned of her nephew's potential involvement in Dodson's death when she called Taylor Correctional to ask why Justin had been moved to a facility in the Jacksonville area. "They told me he was under investigation for the murder of his cellmate," she said. Will Washington, the chief assistant state attorney in the Third Judicial Circuit's State Attorney's Office, confirmed that the FDLE had notified his office it was investigating a homicide at Taylor Correctional Institution that involved an inmate. He...

He couldn’t have picked a better song. Blind Melon’s “Change” played to thousands of listeners on the Gulf Coast as Woofy “ugly cried” in the studio for one of only a handful of times in the past 28 years. Likely the last time was when he had throat cancer in 2010. The longtime radio personality composed himself quickly. “I don't feel the sun's coming out today,” Travis Warren sings in the first verse. And it didn’t. Clouds hung over the Cumulus Media building on Hollywood Boulevard as Woofy ended his career as the voice of 99 Rock. ‘Young, dumb and stupid’

SHALIMAR — A design firm that has an office in Miramar Beach will continue to help Okaloosa County officials determine what type of upgrades should be made to Santa Rosa Boulevard on Okaloosa Island. The four-lane, approximately 2-mile-long road extends past seven county-owned public beach accessways between U.S. Highway 98 and an Eglin Air Force Base gate. On Tuesday, the County Commission unanimously approved paying $100,000 in local option half-cent sales tax money to Richardson, Texas-based Halff Associates Inc. to provide conceptual design drawings for various Santa Rosa Boulevard upg...