Walton County

Fire officials say a lightning strike in Florida launched a chunk of highway pavement through a truck windshield and injured two people inside the vehicle

Florida authorities say a hidden underground bunker was discovered on the property of a Florida child pornography suspect

A law that went into effect July 1 makes clear the process local governments have to follow in order to allow public access to otherwise-privately owned beaches.

Along a stretch of white, sandy shoreline in Florida’s Panhandle, a simple question has led to profanity-laden arguments, private security guards and calls to law enforcement: Who owns the beach?

The money is part of a $380 million national election protection program President Donald Trump approved in March.

AirBnB activated its disaster response program ahead of monster Hurricane Irma, waiving service fees for those affected by the category 5 storm.

Authorities in Florida’s Panhandle say a Texas man stole a deputy’s patrol car while handcuffed.

Swimmers in the Florida Panhandle are dealing with an almost invisible problem in the waters due to jellyfish larvae, or ‘sea lice’.

One of two inmates who escaped in the Florida Panhandle while being transported has been captured in Mississippi.

Search crews have recovered the bodies of a man and a woman from the wreckage of a small plane that went down in the water near Destin on the Florida Panhandle.

Authorities have captured an inmate who escaped from Louisiana after a two-day manhunt that ended in the Florida Panhandle.

Buffalo Bills offensive line coach Aaron Kromer was arrested Sunday in Florida after shoving a boy to the ground and punching him, authorities said.

Authorities say they were called multiple times to the home of a Florida Panhandle boy who drowned in a backyard pool.