On Monday, August 19th, the town of Holly Ridge encountered a series of events that included a major fire of a local industry, the...

Hurricane Debby made landfall on the gulf coast of Florida on August 5th and is scheduled to spend the next several days dropping record...

How to stay cool, protect yourself and your pets, and be able to afford the hot season ahead. Water is key. Cool water for both you and...

As we celebrate Freedom on the 4th of July, should we, in fact, be looking at all the freedoms we have lost or are losing? On Thursday,...

On Monday, April 29th at 10:15 pm EST, the residents of Hampstead, Surf City and Holly Ridge felt the Earth shake. Reports started coming...

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey announced the North Carolina Rate Bureau filed with the NC Department of Insurance...

A record breaking number of voters came out locally on Election Day which resulted in a high number of incumbents losing their seats to...

Randy Dean Allen, 55 a long-time resident of Surf City, died on Friday, September 8th in Sneads Ferry as a result of a motorcycle...

Phoenix Arizona has been suffering for over 30 days with 110-degree temperatures during the entire month of July and going on into...

June 30 – July 2nd Ocean City Jazz Festival, 5-8pm Island Drive, North Topsail Beach June 30 – July 31st Pet Food Drive for Pender County...

Canada is on fire. Images representing numerous fires can be seen from the Pacific coast all the way to the Atlantic coast. On Wednesday,...

Everyone has seen the ads for electric cars, solar panels and green buildings, but what small step can a person take today to really help...

North Carolina now belongs to a group of 37 states that require identification when voting. Here is the timeline of how it came to be: In...

The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office is a member of the Coastal Carolina Human Trafficking Task Force. The Task Force arrested six...

At the Holly Ridge Town meeting on Tuesday, April 11th, an item on the agenda was to discuss a proposal regarding the current zip code,...

New Hanover County Building Inspector Dean Brown encountered something quite out of the ordinary during his day.