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New video is up. South Carolina's attorney general announced a state-led worksite enforcement operation at Burnstein Von Seelen Precision Casting in Abbeville County. A State Grand Jury returned six indictments — two plant managers and four document vendors — for criminal conspiracy, identity fraud and forgery. Federal immigration agents detained 48 workers at the plant during the same operation. Those 48 are in civil immigration proceedings, not criminal charges. The operation is the largest single-site worksite case publicly reported in South Carolina since SLED's 287(g) partnership with ICE took effect last year. Watch the full report: https://myrtlebeachsc.com/sc-worksite-enforcement-abbeville/
Operation Ghost Story — Six Indicted, Forty Eight immigrants Detained by ICE in SC #myrtlebeach
The curvy couch came to the coast! On Friday morning, Fox & Friends set up shop at Lucy Buffett's Lulu's at Barefoot Landing, where co-host Steve Doocy worked a crowd dressed head to toe in red, white and blue for a live broadcast that turned a waterfront restaurant into a national stage. For Horry County residents, the visit was equal parts celebration and reflection — a morning that put North Myrtle Beach in front of millions of viewers, even as the woman who built the restaurant talked openly about stepping away from it. The stop wasn't a one-off. Lulu's was a planned leg of the Fox & Friends cross-country road trip, built around an RV giveaway in which one viewer will win the "Freedom Traveler" recreational vehicle the show has been driving from town to town. The tour rolled through Texas, Kansas, Florida and Georgia before reaching North Myrtle Beach on June 5, with a final stop set for the Jersey Shore on June 12 and the RV awarded live on July 3. Leading the coverage was Doocy, the program's founding co-host since 1998, who shifted last year into a "coast-to-coast" role based in Florida so he could broadcast from communities that rarely get network airtime. North Myrtle Beach — a tourism engine that often plays second fiddle to its larger neighbor to the south — fit that mission squarely. 📍 Lulu's at Barefoot Landing, North Myrtle Beach, SC 📅 June 5, 2026 Were you in the crowd? Let us know in the comments! 👇 North Myrtle Beach, Fox and Friends, Steve Doocy, Lulu's, Barefoot Landing, Lucy Buffett, Freedom Traveler RV, Myrtle Beach news, Horry County, Grand Strand, South Carolina news, live broadcast
Fox & Friends Broadcasts LIVE from North Myrtle Beach | Lulu's at Barefoot Landing #foxandfriends
New video is up. A rare 8-foot Dwarf sperm whale washed ashore at the south end of Garden City Beach on Monday evening, and the Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network is asking the public to remember one thing for next time: call, don't push. We walk through what *Kogia sima* is (it's not the great sperm whale most people picture), what happened on the beach, and the right number to call — 1-877-WHALE-HELP — if you ever find a stranded marine mammal on the Grand Strand. https://myrtlebeachsc.com/pregnant-dwarf-sperm-whale-garden-city/ Have you ever come across wildlife in distress on the beach? Tell us in the comments what you did — and what you wish you'd known.
Have you ever come across wildlife in distress on the beach? #myrtlebeach
New video is up. A Mexican national pleaded guilty in federal court in Florence this week to leading a drug-trafficking organization that the U.S. Attorney's Office said moved more than 120 pounds of cocaine, fentanyl and heroin into Horry County between 2016 and 2022. The FBI Columbia Field Office opened the investigation in 2021. A 2022 indictment disrupted the network, and the defendant was extradited from Mexico in February 2025. Sentencing has not been set. Watch the full report: YOUTUBE_URL
Mexican Trafficking Leader Pleads Guilty - 120 pounds of cocaine, fentanly & herion in Horry County
New video is up. The average cable bill in Horry County is around $147 a month. The slice of it funding the four local broadcast affiliates is roughly $15 to $20 a month. A solid digital news subscription is $9. This isn't an argument that cable is overpriced for everything — the bundle pays for sports, scripted entertainment, and infrastructure. It also isn't a complaint about the people who work at WMBF, WPDE, WBTW or WFXB. The structural point is narrower — Gray, Sinclair and Nexstar own four of the five stations in this market, and peer-reviewed research consistently finds that after a national consolidator takes over, the share of newscast minutes devoted to local politics shrinks. In fairness, the Reuters Institute's 2025 report still ranks local TV as the most-trusted news brand category in the country. Trust is real. So is the math on your bill. An annual subscription to Horry County Uncovered is only $69, however. Watch the breakdown and tell me below — what is your household paying for local news every month, and what are you getting back? Register for a subscription here {https://myrtlebeachsc.com/horry-county-uncovered/}
Where locals get their news has changed. The costs of Free TV has skyrocketed.
For two decades, the North Myrtle Beach Aquatic and Fitness Center has been a fixture of community life, serving more than 5,200 members with swim lessons, fitness classes, and youth programs [WMBF, 2025]. But buried inside the City’s proposed Fiscal Year 2027 budget is a detail that deserves residents’ attention: the single largest slice of the center’s operating budget does not go toward the pool, the gym, or the people teaching classes. It goes toward administration. Administration Tops Every Other Division The Aquatic & Fitness Center (AFC) is divided into five budget units: Administration, Aquatics, Activities, Fitness, and Custodians. According to the proposed FY 2027 budget, total operating expenditures for the center come to $2,502,151 [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. Of that, the Administration division alone accounts for $953,019 — roughly 38 percent of everything the center spends [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. To put that in perspective, the actual Aquatics division, which covers lifeguards, swim instructors, and pool upkeep, is budgeted at just $460,359 [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. In other words, the city plans to spend more than twice as much running the center’s office as it does running the water programs the facility is named after. Administration also outspends Activities ($464,015), Fitness ($384,260), and Custodians ($240,498) combined in compensation weight relative to staffing [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. That imbalance becomes the natural starting point for a second question: if administration costs so much, where exactly is the money moving? A Curious Shift Inside the Numbers The budget itself records that Administration spending is actually dropping 10.1 percent next year, from $1,060,653 to $953,019 [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. On the surface, that looks like restraint. The detail underneath tells a more complicated story. Nearly the entire reduction comes from a single line: Repairs and Maintenance, which falls from $137,200 to zero — a 100 percent cut [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. The Aquatics division shows the same pattern, with its repairs line dropping from $36,800 to nothing [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. At the same time, the Administration division’s compensation costs rise by $36,520, driven by wage increases, a 28.7 percent jump in retirement contributions, and a 155.9 percent spike in workers’ compensation [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. So the “savings” are not really savings in the everyday sense. The city is spending more on people while eliminating the budgeted money for fixing the building — even as it prepares to take on debt to make that building far larger. The $15 Million-or-$18 Million Question This is where the financial discrepancies sharpen. When the city publicly announced the AFC expansion in November 2025, officials repeatedly described it as a roughly $15 million, 31,000-square-foot project [WMBF, 2025; MyHorryNews, 2025]. The FY 2027 budget, however, authorizes an $18 million borrowing supported by Local Accommodations Tax revenues for that same expansion [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. That is a $3 million gap between what residents were told and what the budget now commits to borrow. The budget does not spell out, in the AFC pages, what accounts for the difference — whether it reflects design changes, cost inflation, contingency padding, or simply a more complete estimate. For taxpayers, the gap is worth a direct question to council. The financing picture raises a further point. The center is projected to run a modest operating surplus of $201,849 next year, on $2,704,000 in revenue against $2,502,151 in expenditures [City of North Myrtle Beach, 2026]. But that surplus is dwarfed by the new debt, which will be repaid largely through tourist-driven accommodations taxes rather than membership fees.
Running the office costs more than running the pool at the North Myrtle Beach Aquatics Center
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SC Governor Primary: 5 Candidates, Polls Open Tomorrow

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National Garden Week Puts the Spotlight on North Myrtle Beach’s Yaupon Garden Club

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Country Music Stars Light Up CCMF as Beach Cleanup Caps the Weekend Myrtle Beach SC News

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Democrat Ballots make 60% of SC Early Voting Record at 318,602

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SC Worksite Enforcement in Abbeville: 6 Indicted, 48 Immigrants Detained (SC worksite enforcement Abbeville)

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Fox & Friends Brings the Cameras to Lulu’s: A Red, White and Blue Morning in North Myrtle Beach

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