Brunswick County News

Officials in a small North Carolina city are worried truck and train traffic from a proposed international port terminal could ruin their community.

People who work in the housing business have had to find other ways to make money in this slumping economy, and it's not just homebuilders who have been affected by the recession.

When a resident of a vacation home on Talman Street in the Ocean View area of Supply came to Brunswick County this week, an unexpected visitor was in the home.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:03 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:03 p.m. The Brunswick Nuclear Plant in Southport will conduct its annual full-volume test of its public notification sirens.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 9:08 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 9:08 p.m. Bolivia The Brunswick County Sheriff's Office is holding a pill turn-in Wednesday from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The office's drug enforcement unit has invited people to go to either of the sheriff's office's locations and drop off their old or ...

Published: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:25 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:25 p.m. Supply Brunswick County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man after an attempted carjacking Saturday in a grocery store parking lot, officials said.

A refurbished gas chamber purchased for use at the Brunswick County Animal Shelter may have had leaks that caused employees to get sick in Reidsville, a local animal activist claims.

If you're like most Americans, you probably have a medicine cabinet filled with half-used prescriptions from ailments of years past.

Submitted by WWAY on 19 November 2009 - 6:25pm. READ MORE: A man who escaped from the Brunswick County Jail is on his way back to North Carolina, after being arrested in Baltimore.

Submitted by Jenna Caiazzo on 17 November 2009 - 7:17pm. "As good as new" doesn't quite cut it for animal rights activists.

An armed robbery was reported Wednesday evening in the Civietown area of Supply.

Several Brunswick County groups are making sure needy families have food on the table for Thanksgiving day.

Submitted by WWAY on 17 November 2009 - 6:05pm. Fugitive Files Mugshot Text In today's Fugitive Files, deputies in Brunswick County need your help locating a pair of brothers who are on the run.

Our friend Perri Morgan at Capitol Monitor in Raleigh has been hard at work creating a handy tool for tracking federal a oestimulusa spending in North Carolina.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:20 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:20 p.m. Two former employees of Coastal Cinemas in Shallotte and two others were arrested Monday on charges of armed robbery at the movie theater Sunday night.

LELAND A North Carolina sheriff's deputy has been accused of assaulting his estranged wife.

Brunswick County authorities are investigating what they say is a suspicious house fire in Sunset Harbor.

Brunswick County has filed its response to Lexon Insurance Co.'s claim that the county cannot sue it for money to finish the water, sewer and roads in Avalon, an abandoned project of N.C. 211, because of the newly passed state law called the Permit Extension Act.

Published: Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 7:28 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 7:28 p.m. Bolivia A 24-year-old man was killed Saturday night in Brunswick County when he lost control of his car and hit a tree, officials said.

Brunswick County police are searching for a man responsible for holding another man and his son at gunpoint and demanding money.