The N.C. Coastal Land Trust has secured another grant to help with the nonprofit group's push to protect a popular and much-loved piece of oceanfront land at the southern tip of Topsail Island. The ...

TOPSAIL BEACH — Shortly after the military abandoned its guided missile-testing program on Topsail Island in the late 1940s, people hoping to own a piece of tranquility by the sea got their chance.

The threat of rip currents and beach erosion has prompted the closure of some beach access points in North Topsail Beach as Hurricane Erin draws nearer in the Atlantic Ocean. North Topsail Island ...