Southport News

The new Greenpeace "Rainbow Warrior" flagship will be in Southport this weekend.

A vehicle-free vacation is becoming increasingly more attractive as analysts predict record-breaking gas prices for 2012.A Patrick DeHaan, Senior Petroleum Analyst for GasBuddy.com, forecasts that prices will peak in May, reaching as high as $4.95 a gallon in Chicago and $4.85 in San Francisco.

It happens every year. After a dearth of plays in January -A there were just four put on locallyA - the drama starts coming fast and furious in February, with at least eight new shows.A Read aboutA what's opening this week below.

The Red Springs Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution Tuesday supporting a feasibility study of the proposed North Carolina International Port Terminal in Southport.

A few of the sights along a walk around Southport. Snapping photos of storefronts and signage, I found a few sights of Spring, a few projects begun and a number of welcoming places to rest and dream.

The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded a $1.7 million contract to replace the fender system on a Brunswick County bridge along N.C. 133.

The North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport is privileged to present Dr. Ufuk Kocabas, Director of Istanbul University's Department of Marine Archeology and the Yenikapi Shipwrecks Project, from 2-4 pm Sunday, March 4, at the Southport Community Building.

While it is not targeting a specific coal plant in the Washington region, it will target coal-fired utilities as it heads to Southport, N.C., and Ft.

Just up Highway 133 from Wilmington in the small seaside town of Southport a band called Museum Mouth makes marvelously noisy and infectious melodic punk music by musicians Karl Kuehn, Graham High and Kory Urban.

The weather has been the topic of most conversations I have had or have listened to lately.

The NC Department of Transportation will hold a meeting tomorrow about the proposed rate increase on the Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry and other ferry routes up the coast.

January 27, 2012 - Southport, NC - The Southport Historical Society announced they have partnered with the City of Southport in transforming the Garrison House into the City's Visitor Center and Museum.

Pat Sykes says she will run against Warren in May's Republican primary for the District 3 seat.

Motorists drive off the ferry Tuesday morning at the Minnesott Beach dock. The N.C. Ferry Division is proposing a $4 or $7 charge for drivers who use the Cherry Branch-Minnesott Beach route.

A middle school student in Brunswick County has been suspended after officials say he put BBs into the school cafeteria's vegetable soup.

It was business as usual for the most part at the Brunswick County Commission meeting Tuesday night.