New Smyrna Beach News

Founded in 1768 by Dr. Andrew Turnbull, New Smyrna Beach is the third oldest of the European settled communities in Florida.

It feels like it's 90 degrees at 6 p.m. as I sit on a bench staring at a mess of Votran route sheets in my lap and considering the 11 miles to get home.

The field of Republicans vying to take on Democratic U.S. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas of New Smyrna Beach has grown to four.

A New Smyrna Beach community activist was arrested after a female neighbor accused him of lurking in the bushes and staring at her, police said.

D ining in downtown Sanford has been a bit of a challenge for a while. The revamping of the entry into the historic district from French Avenue onto First Street has been like waiting for a humongous pot of water to boil.

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The former Kister Kayat manufacturing plant along U.S. 1 in Edgewater has been reborn as CartTech, where shopping carts are refurbished and resold.

A DeLand man wanted on an attempted second-degree murder charge in a May shooting was arrested Thursday.

New Smyrna Beach police said they arrested George Heise, 77, after a woman called and said a man was hiding in her backyard and watching her.

A New Smyrna Beach teen was arrested and charged with arson after a torched back bedroom of his house on Charlovix Street was discovered Wednesday morning.

More than seven years after she was accused of killing an elderly woman during a home invasion in New Smyrna Beach, Karen Blosser was found competent to stand trial Wednesday.

The United States Coast Guard rescued six people off the Volusia County coast Saturday.

Two veteran Volusia County school principals -- both homegrown and longtime fixtures at the elementary schools they head -- will retire Tuesday.

A 27-year-old Rockledge man was charged with two counts of attempted armed robbery after allegedly holding up two Volusia County pharmacies.

Seventy years ago, Earl Wallace helped commission U.S. Coast Guard Station Ponce de Leon Inlet.

Two pairs of Volusia elementary schools each will share a principal for the next academic year and each of the nine high schools will have one fewer assistant principal as part of a plan to save an estimated $1.78 million.

Officials of the St. Augustine-Baracoa Friendship Association have extended their thanks for which is described as the overwhelming response to an appeal for donations for the humanitarian mission in Cuba.

This city has a brownfield and so does Port Orange. Now New Smyrna Beach and South Daytona are looking to get theirs.

Next fall, Florida voters will decide if they want the power to approve or deny changes to their communities' comprehensive land-use plans.

CRAWFORDVILLE - Uno, the big German Shepherd, howled his readiness to get to work Wednesday as the head of Florida's prison system finished introducing him.