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 ...

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 ...

A heartfelt thank you goes to Southport’s Fire Department Rescue Team and EMS Team for their rescue services during my husband, Tod’s, 34 falls.

The former Brunswick County Courthouse and the former Southport City Hall building has been in the news recently as it will be restored and serve as the police headquarters and upstairs city board ...

On April 26, the Second Annual St. James/Wounded Warrior Golf Tournament, Dinner, and “FUNdraiser” returned with even greater ...

I read Rep. Miller’s “From the Legislator” column in the April 30 edition of The State Port Pilot where he provided an overview of some of the bills going through committees. Miller mentioned four ...

A small group of enthusiasts created Oak Island Beach Pickles in 2013 and they played together on two makeshift courts behind ...

Oak Island Fire Department and Brunswick County Emergency Services conducted a simulation of a mass casualty event at ...

Like many, I was fooled, or at least caught off guard, by the weather this past week. We didn’t have nasty storms, even ...