Destin News

About 11:50 p.m. firefighters were called to the home at 419 Primrose Circle. A fire had started in the carport and quickly spread to the house, said Battalion Chief Bronson Coleman with the Destin Fire Department.

Six South Walton restaurants have been awarded Florida Trend's prestigious annual Golden Spoon awards.

The city has poured thousands of dollars into several quick fixes, but in a few short months that will all change.

The twilight run is the primary fundraiser for the nonprofit domestic and sexual violence shelter that serves Okaloosa and Walton counties.

Debbie Weant held a ladies-only throwdown around her fire pit Dec. 4 at her Point Washington home.

State officials say they have no plans to remove the wreckage of a boat crash that killed three people in the Florida Panhandle.

Okaloosa County will continue to use in-house labor to clean the beaches on Okaloosa Island and in Destin through February.

The city's holiday festivities hit the highway and harbor this weekend with the 28th Annual Destin Christmas Parade and the 27th Annual Holiday on the Harbor Lighted Boat Parade.

The Okaloosa County School Board unanimously voted Monday night to go forward with public advertisement of new transportation zones for Bob Sikes and Walker elementary schools.

For years, Tommy Williams of Destin has been working to create a program that would help employers track their employees' movements.

Florida Trend recently announced the winners of its annual Golden Spoon awards highlighting the best and most innovative dining scenes in the state.

Three people are dead after a boat crashed into a bridge piling in the Florida Panhandle.

Legendary Marine of Destin, FL, an IDS customer, was named Top Marine Dealer for the second year in a row at Boating Industry's annual Top 100 black-tie gala.

The owner of PowerUp Watersports in Destin was one of 67 competitors invited to the second-ever flyboard competition in the west Asian country.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission began the search Friday after a female body washed up on shore by the Boggy Bayou.

Energy conservation is something I've been interested in for a long time. There's only a finite amount of fossil fuels we use to create it, and frankly, it's just too expensive to waste.

Destin Fire Control District and the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office responded to a possible HAZMAT call Friday morning about a strange device floating in the waters behind Jetty East Condominiums.

Officials continue to search the Choctawhatchee Bay after identifying a woman's body pulled from the water Friday afternoon and finding a second body Saturday morning, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties received good news Friday when the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Board of Trustees doled out $88 million for projects to counties affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The same night the School Board considers zoning changes in Crestview, it will also look at reversing a zoning decision made years ago to deal with similar issues in another part of the county.