The project for the Topsail Island town, funded via state and local sources, is using sand dredged from Banks Channel to ...

Less than six months after losing one mayor, the town of Topsail Beach is mourning the death of another. Morton Blanchard ...

The Topsail Beach Board of Commissioners voted in a new mayor at their regular meeting on March 12. Frank Braxton was voted in as mayor. Three of the votes were for him and one abstained. The board ...

In a press release, town manager Doug Shipley shared that Blanchard passed away on Sunday afternoon.

The Town of Topsail Beach is mourning the death of Mayor Morton Blanchard, who died Sunday afternoon, according to a town ...

A Topsail Beach resident since 2004, Blanchard served as a commissioner and mayor for the past five months. He worked for the ...

ranks among the nation’s top beach destinations. Getty Images/iStockphoto So, how did other North Carolina destinations fare? Topsail Beach ranks No. 12 and Holden Beach is No. 28 on the list.

The pipes would allow more of the greyish sandy slurry dredged from Banks Channel on the mainland side of Surf City to be pumped further up the Topsail Island's beach, adding feet of space to the ...