Questions about city services and staffing were kicked around during a recent Southport Board of Aldermen budget workshop. Alderman Frank Lai summed it up in a nutshell.

Planes taking off from the Cape Fear Regional Jetport last week flew hundreds of trips over the Boiling Spring Lakes forest fire in an effort to save people’s homes. Over a two-day span, from the ...

Boiling Spring Lakes Mayor Jeff Winecoff expressed on Sunday morning “a big thanks … to all the firefighters from around the area, all the police departments, sheriff’s offices and state troopers who ...

In a city still recovering from Hurricane Florence in 2018 and most recently Potential Tropical Cyclone 8, Boiling Spring Lakes residents endured over the weekend another threat: fire. As firefighters ...

N.C. Cooperative Extension paid a visit to Caswell Beach Monday morning with some important information the community can use ...

Like many, I was fooled, or at least caught off guard, by the weather this past week. We didn’t have nasty storms, even though we could have used one Friday and Friday night, but the wind turned to ...

A recent assessment of Oak Island’s recreational facilities produced several options for town council to consider, and none of them proved to be particularly inexpensive. Representatives from HH ...

All of us hear people saying they have to work three jobs to survive now. The reason behind employers limiting hours goes back to the Affordable Care Act and the requirements in the act. Any company ...

Last Wednesday, April 30, firefighters from around the state gathered in Raleigh for Firefighter Legislative Day. Southport Fire Chief Charles Drew and Battalion Chief Ralph Treadway attended and ...