New Smyrna Beach News

Port Orange film production company Blue Heron International Pictures honored two of its animal stars at its annual awards ceremonies this past weekend.

Parking at the beachfront Esther Street property and incentives to draw business into town topped its list of priorities.

Heard on News 13: Neighbors of the planned hotel on Flagler Ave. weren't given enough notice of the council meeting at which it was approved. A new meeting is planned for December.

The owners of The Big Planet are getting a big break thanks to a city incentive package.

A group of restaurants plan to whip up that special holiday feeling with a free homemade dinner a week before Thanksgiving.

The 19th annual "Flamingo Follies: A Holiday Art Show" will usher in the holiday season Saturday and Sunday, Nov.

A Lake Mary teen surfing off New Smyrna Beach was bitten by a shark. Volusia County Beach Patrol reports that the 18-year-old man was one of about 300 surfers in the water Wednesday when a 4-foot shark grabbed his right leg.

Police today are looking for two men they say robbed a Chinese food deliveryman of money and food in New Smyrna Beach.

Warnon Bell spent a hardscrabble life working on the railroad last century. The 88-year-old New Smyrna Beach resident said it was hard but honest work.

Two children were found in their New Smyrna Beach home critically burned shortly before 5 a.m. Monday.

Volusia County investigators were on the scene at an apartment in New Smyrna Beach Monday where two children were found with serious injuries.

Local foster children will be given quilts made by a group from New Smyrna Beach.

Crystal is still healthy as a horse after the mare was carefully rescued from the muddy hole that trapped her, officials said Friday.

New Smyrna Beach continues its promotion of the city's history as nominations now are being accepted for the ninth Donnadine Miller Memorial Historic Preservation Award.

A sex offender's craving for persimmons was cut short by a punch to the ear from a Volusia County neighbor who lived near the wild tree the convicted molester was perusing, deputies said.

There will be two new faces on the New Smyrna Beach City Commission. Barringer Reiker By a margin of 112 votes, Adam Barringer defeated incumbent Mayor Sally Mackay, who was seeking a second term Tuesday night.

THE ODYSSEY MEMORIAL IN NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FLORIDA Word count: 794 BY AURELIA Come my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world Ulysses - Alfred Lord Tennyson The courageous Mediterranean people who left the shores of Minorca in the eighteenth century to "seek a newer world" in Florida, were the largest group of white people to form their own ...

Voters in three Volusia County cities -- Lake Helen, Ponce Inlet and New Smyrna Beach -- will go to the polls today to choose local officials.

The Pet Vet Cruiser is a state-of-the-art mobile clinic that offers free and low-cost spay and neuter services for pets in the unincorporated areas of Volusia County.

A motorcylist was killed instantly Thursday night when a motorist crashed into the bike, EVAC officials said this morning.