Along with other environmental concerns, it's the reason officials are working to create an ordinance to ban the release of balloons in the town ... to the Topsail Island Shoreline Protection ...

The combination of that silence with tranquil woods, picturesque oceanscapes, and limited rainfall makes it easy to understand why people would move to Pender Island to live. Despite all those ...

An investigation continues into the intentional decapitation of an 8-foot-long bottlenose dolphin found on Lea-Hutaff ...

Reach him at dsheehan@gannett.com. This article originally appeared on Wilmington StarNews: Mayor of Pender County beach town ...

ATKINSON, N.C. (WECT) - The small Pender County town of Atkinson is without a mayor until further notice after Ken Smith resigned from the position Friday. Smith served as mayor for a year and a half ...