DESTIN — After 26 years of memories, smiles, friendships and countless half-price specials, the Lighthouse Restaurant in Shoreline Village Mall will close July 31.

T here was no fooling around on April 1 for the Destin High School Sharks softball team, as they played lights-out softball, beating the visiting Lighthouse Private Christian Academy Stingrays of ...

When the lighthouse was first built in 1825 to aid boats around the end of the peninsula, Florida had been American territory for seven years. It would not be a state for two decades. And only ...