Calhoun County

Voters in Calhoun County will head to the polls Aug. 18 to make their pick for the District 2 seat on the county’s school board in this year’s midterm primary election. While school board races typically may not receive as much attention as larger, statewide elections in midterm years, the people elected to these positions make decisions that directly impact students, families, and teachers.

Florida’s new budget for the 2026-27 is in effect and the state will be spending more than $117.6 billion on the environment, education, transportation, healthcare, criminal justice and economic development. Embedded with the billions is also funding slated to go toward individual cities, counties, municipalities, and other local entities—including Calhoun and Liberty Counties.

The service area expansion will also mean additional staff hirings.

Liberty and Calhoun, two rural counties right next to each other, have experienced little to no population growth over the past five years. At the same time, the population is getting older.

Today marks the four-year anniversary of Hurricane Michael crashing into the Florida Panhandle as a Category 5 storm. While progress has been made toward putting the ravaged communities back together, there’s still a long way to go. Blountstown Elementary students and staff took another step toward recovery last week as they helped break ground on their new school.

Forestry crews and firefighters have made progress on containing a massive blaze in northwest Florida, with the help of recent rainfall.

Firefighters have protected most of the homes and businesses threatened by wildfires in northwest Florida this week, but they still have a lot of work ahead of them to contain a massive blaze that's burning in three counties.

More than three inches of rain fell last night over a massive wildfire in northwest Florida, but the fire hasn't gotten smaller.

High winds from the Bertha Swamp Road Fire pushed farther into Calhoun and Gulf Counties late Tuesday. The change in direction has forced evacuations in those counties.

Preparations are underway for the grand opening of the Calhoun County airport after its terminal and hangars were damaged during Hurricane Michael. Local officials hope the repairs and upgrades will attract more industry to the area.