Okaloosa County officials say dead bait fish have been washing up on some parts of Okaloosa Island and may be due to infestations of June Grass. Rich Huffnagle, the chief of Okaloosa County’s Beach Safety Division said with calm seas creating little wave action along the beach,  the smaller fish can’t clear their gills. Huffnagle…… MORE

Pensacola – Sertoma 4th of July Celebration activities take place in Seville Square from 11 a.m to 6 p.m. Fireworks begin at 9 p.m. over Pensacola Bay. Community Maritime Park Amphitheater – The Symphony Sparks and Stars featuring the Pensacola Symphony will begin at 7:30 p.m with patriotic and pops classics followed by a view…… MORE

Panama City Beach police have identified the man who robbed a Bay County bank Wednesday morning and are asking the public’s help in locating him. Bank employees at First National Bank of Northwest Florida on Hutchinson Boulevard said a white male – identified as 30-year-old Ross Masa, of Punta Gorda, Florida – walked into the…… MORE

John Dabrowski, a retired Army colonel and Department of Defense historian who now lives in Navarre, has become part of an effort to see a Roman Catholic chaplain, who parachuted into France on D-Day during World War II, be canonized as a saint. Reverend Ignatius Maternowski joined the Franciscan religious order in 1932 and enlisted…… MORE

Starting next week Pensacola will make eight blocks of North Palafox Street more bicycle friendly. Construction will begin Monday to add bike lanes and reconfigure parking along Palafox Street between Garden and Cervantes streets. The section between Cervantes and Wright streets will go from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction.…… MORE