After about 20 minutes of discussion at its July 7 meeting, the Destin City Council said no to vending on public beaches. “We have very limited public beach,” Council member Jim Bagby said. “And I ...

This summer, Louisiana vacationers making their annual escape to Florida's Gulf Coast will find a new stretch of sugar white sand and aquamarine waves — the result of a multimillion-dollar effort to ...

After more than an hour-and-a-half of public comment, the message was the same: Leave the beach alone, and we don’t want to commercialize the marina. Okaloosa County Commissioner Drew Palmer, who ...