North Myrtle Beach’s 2019 budget of $119 million proposes a 7.9 mil property tax increase over the next 8 years to pay back a $4.25 million short-term loan the city used to buy 96 acres to add to the North Myrtle Beach Park and Sports Complex, and to build new amenities on the park. Read more
It’s fun, it’s for a good cause, and it’s practically a tradition.
The six possibly human bones found on Waties Island Sept. 21 are part of an Horry County Police “possible death investigation,” police spokeswoman Mikayla Moskov said.
Imagine moving into a quiet residential neighborhood, only to have the house next door turn into a business overnight, with new neighbors moving in and out every few weeks.
North Myrtle Beach's council vote Monday night made it official.
The case is closed, but the suspect is dead.
Some Horry County residents will be able to buy a North Myrtle Beach parking decal for $200 under an ordinance that passed first reading Friday afternoon. The ordinance still needs to pass second reading before becoming law.
As the State Law Enforcement Division investigates Atlantic Beach's 2019 mayoral election, one candidate in that race says he fielded a complaint of voter intimidation.
Folks in parts of North Myrtle Beach and Little River will start seeing workers in their neighborhoods as Santee Cooper begins a tree-trimming project that's scheduled to last through May.
Atlantic Beach’s 2019 mayoral election is under investigation by the State Law Enforcement Division.
Kevin Armstrong finally opened his barbershop.
Imagine a philanthropic Uber service, but instead of drivers chauffeuring passengers, it's volunteer pilots flying patients to specialists and treatments.
North Myrtle Beach is planning to repave 41 streets and a parking lot within the city at a cost of a bit more than $1 million.
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Paid parking on side streets and non-resident parking permits were among the recommendations presented by North Myrtle Beach’s parking consultants during a meeting Wednesday afternoon.
As Hurricane Dorian threatened the Grand Strand in early September 2019, thousands of Horry County residents were busy getting out of town or bracing for the storm.
North Myrtle Beach on Monday passed final reading of an ordinance to shorten the minimum duration of a sign’s message from 60 seconds to 10 seconds.
Bar 19 Twelve has been open less than two weeks, but it was already packed Thursday night.
The City of North Myrtle Beach plans to reduce the Barefoot Resort swing bridge to one lane in early January to allow for annual maintenance.
A group of North Myrtle Beach civic and business leaders are planning to hold a large concert in October 2020 to raise money for a domestic violence shelter in Horry County.
North Myrtle Beach on Monday approved first reading of an ordinance to shorten the minimum duration of a sign’s message from 60 seconds to 15 seconds.
North Myrtle Beach City Council joined Surfside Beach and Atlantic Beach Monday in supporting the hospitality fee settlement.
Judge Benjamin Culbertson on Monday ordered a temporary injunction to close and secure a Windy Hill property owned by Joeseph Rideoutte Jr. as a part of a nuisance action against the property.
One of North Myrtle Beach’s oldest career civil servants has called it quits.
Students in North Myrtle Beach will be creating a vertical garden using recycled bottles with the help of a $2,500 grant.
The North Myrtle Beach city council on Monday passed final reading of several ordinances annexing almost 12 acres of land into the city and adding it to the Bahama Island Planned Development District to allow for more RV spots at the North Myrtle Beach RV Resort and Dry Dock.
Former District 1 Horry County School Board member Holly Heniford’s DUI case has been dismissed, according to North Myrtle Beach spokesperson Pat Dowling.
North Myrtle Beach on Friday held a drop-in charrette hosted by parking consultants Kimley-Horn in order to get feedback from residents on the city’s inaugural paid parking program that lasted from June 15 through the end of October.
The Reverend W. Russell Freeman will be the next District 1 representative for Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach on the Horry County School Board.
A real estate company owned by a North Myrtle Beach city councilman is facing a lawsuit over bats found in a rental home.
Atlantic Beach will keep its mayor and both incumbent councilors that were running for reelection, but it will get a new councilor to replaced the unexpired term vacated by Kenneth McLaurin earlier this year, according to uncertified election results released by the town Tuesday night.
All the North Myrtle Beach City Council incumbents retained their seats after Tuesday night’s election.
The North Myrtle Beach city council on Monday passed final reading of an ordinance mandating where residents are allowed to put their parking decals on their cars, golf carts and motorcycles.
The North Myrtle Beach city council on Monday approved first reading of a slew of ordinances designed to annex more than 11 acres of land into the city and add it to the Bahama Island Planned Development District in order to expand an existing campground to more than 200 RV spots.
The Horry County School Board announced Monday night that they would be interviewing eight candidates for the District 1 board seat on Monday, Nov. 11.
The Myrtle Beach Seahawks scored early and often Friday night, although resistance from the North Myrtle Beach Chiefs kept the undefeated team’s total score from reaching the astronomical levels they achieved during some of their previous conquests.
Municipal voters who go to the polls Tuesday will be among the first to use the state’s new voting machines that combine technology with paper ballots.
With the November 5 election less than a week away, some candidates on the ballot in North Myrtle Beach have raised considerably more money than others.
Correction: an earlier version of this story misstated the percentage of road fee money distributed to the municipalities where it was collected.
On November 5th, 2019, North Myrtle Beach and Atlantic Beach will hold their municipal elections.
It’s a preserve that was years in the making.
Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson wants a judge to shut down a rental property in North Myrtle Beach that has developed a reputation for drugs and violence, according to court records.
A resort-style development that encompasses the North Myrtle Beach RV Resort and Dry Dock could undergo some changes, but there’s no indication that the full project will be built out anytime soon.
The city of North Myrtle Beach on Monday passed first reading of an ordinance to amend its paid parking program to specify where residents’ free parking decals should go.
All five candidates for North Myrtle Beach’s three council seats up for election in November plan to attend a North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce meet-and-greet forum Thursday afternoon, according to Pete Brooks, the chamber’s director of public relations and governmental affairs.
The city of North Myrtle Beach started decorating the NMB Park and Sports Complex in September in preparation for the Great Christmas Light Show, and they expect it to be bigger and better than last year.
North Myrtle Beach is getting 12 new firefighters thanks to a FEMA grant called Staffing and Adequate Fire and Emergency Response, also known as SAFER.
Sunday is all about puppy love at Local on the Water in North Myrtle Beach.
Crews responded to a fire Thursday afternoon at a building that is under construction in North Myrtle Beach, officials said.
An investigation is underway after a BB gun was found in a North Myrtle Beach High student's backpack Tuesday morning, according to the school's administrators.
North Myrtle Beach is about to get more surfer-friendly.
North Myrtle Beach's Crescent Beach council seat is up for election this November, as Ed Ramey, the 47-year old owner and operator of Flash Cab, takes on experienced incumbent and Baldwin Construction Company president J. O. Baldwin III, 55.
Incumbent Fred Coyne, 59, is running unchallenged in North Myrtle Beach's November's election for the Cherry Grove council seat.
One of North Myrtle Beach's two at-large council seats is up for an election this November. Incumbent Harry Thomas - known as Hank Thomas on council - is being challenged by Horry County native Greg Richardson.
The speaker this year for the HTC Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series at Coastal Carolina University is Derreck Kayongo, founder of the Global Soap Project, on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in Johnson Auditorium.
The Horry County Coroner's Office is working to determine if bones found on Waties Island Saturday morning are human, according to a new release from Horry County police.
Trey White said Ethan Bellamy’s wakeboarding injury in 2017 was like none he’d seen before.
North Myrtle Beach police arrested three men on drug charges Thursday morning following an investigation into two residences in North Myrtle Beach’s Windy Hill neighborhood.
A North Myrtle Beach Police Department lance corporal was arrested and charged with third degree domestic violence early Saturday morning.
The Grand Strand was spared major damage as the Category 2 – and at times Category 3 – Hurricane Dorian moved north, skirting the coast without making landfall in South Carolina.
As Hurricane Dorian spins up the Carolina coast, switching between a category 2 and category 3 storm, people in North Myrtle Beach didn’t seem impressed.
We will update as more closures are reported. See map at https://www.horrycounty.org/gis/roadClosures/
Darren Miller held tight several leashes as he, his wife Barbara and their three dogs stood under the hot rising sun on the Murrells Inlet boardwalk, waiting on the goats.
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