Topsail Island sits about 40 miles northeast of Wilmington. The 26-mile-long barrier island off the North Carolina coast is home to three charming seaside towns: North Topsail Beach, Surf City, and ...

The N.C. Coastal Land Trust purchased the 150-acre "Point" at the southern tip of Topsail Island to prevent development. The Point will be managed similarly to how it has been, allowing public access ...

Topsail Island was once the site of a top-secret military project called Operation Bumblebee. The U.S. Navy project developed and tested experimental ramjet missiles from 1946 to 1948. Several ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Now is no time to build a planned 37-acre development on the pristine south end of ...

It didn’t come as a surprise when Chris Rackley learned Topsail Island was voted in a recent online poll of travelers as a top beach destination. He hears it from vacationers in the area all the time.

The idea of a day trip to Topsail Island is both exciting and a tiny bit frustrating. The excitement is obvious — it is a wonderful place to spend a day — and the frustration is simply owing to the ...

Five months after Hurricane Florence, Topsail Island is still in the process of rebuilding. Beach towns along the barrier island that rely on tourism are busy prepping for the summer season. Chris ...

UPDATE: This story has been corrected to show the southern tip of Topsail Island is in a conservation district. The isolated southern tip of Topsail Island, a 26-mile-long barrier island north of ...

A three-alarm fire destroyed two homes and damaged a third on Topsail Island early Saturday, according to firefighters. The fire broke out sometime after midnight in a home under construction on ...