Surfside Beach News

Fireworks are a traditional part of celebrating Independence Day in the United States, but they don't come without a cost.

Two homes were destroyed by fire and two others were heavily damaged by smoke and flames Saturday afternoon on Bay Drive in the Salters Cove community near Murrells Inlet.

The town of Surfside Beach is now one of two beaches in South Carolina to have the Blue Wave designation as an eco-friendly beach, the town announced Monday.

Saturday, July 04, 2009 at 7:53 p.m. At leastA four homes have been totaled andA six people displaced this 4th of July weekend.

Ocean Lakes Campground, 6001 S. Kings Highway, will host its annual golf cart parade at 2 p.m. 238-5636. The Sun Fun Summer Concert series features Too Much Sylvia at 7 p.m. Celebrity Square at Broadway at the Beach, Myrtle Beach.

An air conditioner caught on fire at a Blockbuster Video Tuesday evening around 5:30 p.m., said Surfside Beach Fire Department Chief Robert Packard.

Political pundits are describing Governor Mark Sanford's admission of adultery on Wednesday as a "confessional" in which he apologized to those of faith and asked for forgiveness.

The mother of missing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel left Myrtle Beach Wednesday to go back home.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 10:08 p.m. Surfside Beach town leaders provided some comfort to any residents concerned about a possible sales tax increase.

The mother of a missing teen from Rochester, N.Y., spent the weekend raising money to continue searching for her daughter.

Another Sun Fun Festival happened today, this time, in Surfside Beach. Even though this one isn't as large as the one held at the Market Common last weekend, people still got to enjoy plenty of free activities.

Kate Visser has been appointed sales manager for the Coldwell Banker Chicora Real Estate Dunes sales office and its Shore Drive and Covenant Towers community sales centers.

Hand-painted, pastel Ukrainian eggs sit untouched on the shelves of The Painted Banana in downtown Conway.

Federal and state health officials will be in Surfside Beach every weekend through the summer beginning Sunday to conduct environmental research.

On June 2, a Little River woman said she went to a bondsman to pick up the bond money she put up for her husband.

Rides for a new amusement park on Ocean Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach will start being set up as early as mid-July, one of the park's planners said Tuesday.

Laughter, according to an old cliche - and Reader's Digest - is the best medicine for what ails you.

A Surfside Beach couple is charged in a nine-count indictment after authorities allege they submitted documents to the federal government claiming that the husband was disabled because he lost the use of his feet, according to U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins.

A swim advisory has been issued for sections of North Myrtle Beach and Surfside Beach, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control announced today.

In 1990, the adult education program in Georgetown County was a fraction of what it is today.