Ponce Inlet News

Just as some people today believe a Maya calendar pinpoints 2012 as the end of the world as we know it, some ancient Romans saw the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius , as a sign of a coming apocalypse.

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

Voters in New Smyrna Beach , Lake Helen and Ponce Inlet made choices for seven city offices Tuesday, with high turnout in every city.

A Ponce Inlet man has been charged with committing insurance fraud at the DeLand business in which he's a majority shareholder.

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

Seven candidates will be on the ballot in Tuesday's city elections, vying for the mayor's office and two seats on the Town Council.

Early voting is in full swing for four Volusia County cities with elections and referendum questions to be answered.

George Jones spent 34 years in government before becoming the Indian Riverkeeper, charged with protecting and restoring the Indian River Lagoon.

Want to learn more about the plants and animals that inhabit the beach dunes? The staff of the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet will offer a hike along the dunes at Lighthouse Point Park in Ponce Inlet.

Let's get something clear. There's no University of Florida football game, no Florida State football game, either.

Responding to a mayday call before dawn on Monday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued a quick-thinking Holly Hill man who grabbed three life vests from his rapidly sinking boat.

Suzanne Holy once jumped into the Halifax River because a cat had waded into the water and was in distress.

A dredging project to restore safe navigation to the Ponce de Leon Inlet has been completed.

BEACON PHOTO/BARB SHEPHERD Mapping a market in free fall - Volusia County Property Appraiser Morgan Gilreath and Deputy Appraiser Janice Cornelius pore over maps of the Ponce Inlet neighborhood where County Manager Jim Dinneen lives.

Faced with a potential federal ban on catching their prized red snapper, local captains decided to fight science with science.

Volusia and Flagler observances have been scheduled to mark the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon.

Someone to be at the helm a ' If things go according to plan, former Ponce Inlet City Manager Kassandra Blissett will be offered an agreement to serve as DeBary's interim city manager.

If you plan to go to the beach this holiday weekend, watch where you step. Jellyfish are washing up everywhere and they can give you a painful sting.

Space shuttle Discovery lights up the night as it streaks across the sky past the 122-year-old Ponce de Leon Inlet lighthouse in Ponce Inlet, Fla., after 11:59pm lift-off from Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The City Council will ask Kassandra Blissett, the former town manager of Ponce Inlet, if she would be DeBary's interim city manager.