Albemarle News

Novant Health, formerly Presbyterian, is still on track to break ground on their new location in Mint Hill in 2014, and to complete the hospital in 2016, two years earlier than the initial plans.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is used to having considerable clout in the legislature.

It has been several years since I have written about Friendly Chapel Baptist Church located just out of Fallston, at 738 Sugar Hill Road.

In conjunction with the Museum of the Albemarle 's newest exhibit Real to Reel: The Making of Gone with the Wind, Education Coordinator Charlotte Patterson will present a History for Lunch program on Wednesday, June 5 from 12:15-12:45 p.m. The discussion will center on clothing used in the film and clothing in the exhibit and clothing of the 1860s.

Sunday evening, deputies were dispatched to the home of 27-year-old Jason Whitney Burleson in reference to a medical emergency.

The N.C. Potato Festival happens again in downtown Elizabeth City. There will be plenty of vendors, lots of music, rides for the kids, a street dance at night complete with fireworks.

The Museum of the Albemarle will host Dale Pollock, Professor of Cinema Studies and Producing at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 1 p.m. in the Gaither Auditorium.

STANLY COUNTY, N.C. The Sheriff's office is investigating a death just outside of the Albemarle city limit.

When most people think of the War of 1812, if they think of the war at all, some far away locale comes to mind.

We've seen cars that have been stolen and taken apart before. But we've never seen anything like this.

What started as a home invasion in Charlotte turned into a carjacking and ended in a police chase through Stanly and Anson counties Wednesday morning.

City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to sue North Carolina to block a looming forced merger of its water system with the Metropolitan Sewerage District.

On Saturday, the National Association of Letter Carriers will once again pick up canned food donations to help Stamp Out Hunger in northeast North Carolina and across the nation.

After spending several years and thousands of dollars opposing the corporate giant, officials in Stanly County now say they will no longer fight Alcoa's efforts to be re-licensed to run a series of hydroelectric dams on the Yadkin River.

Staff photo by Brett A. ClarkWhen Cindy Williams isn't working alongside husband and business partner Tim Williams at their print shop, she's working alonside him to organize the N.C. Potato Festival.

Winner of 10 Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind remains popular decades after its 1939 premiere.Hollywood's highly romanticized movie of the "Old South" is based on Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Police are asking the public to help them identify a person of interest in a Friday homicide – a man whose image shows up in what appears to be a store's security camera.

Wyatt A. Dail, 17, of the 100 block of Pineview Drive, Elizabeth City, was arrested April 8 and charged with possession of schedule IV of a controlled substance and felony possession with intent to sell or deliver schedule IV of a controlled substance.

From the city of Asheville: This is an informational notification from The City of Asheville Water Resources Department letting you know we will be continuing to install new water line infrastructure on Blair Street, Charlotte Street, Albemarle Road and Baird Street in the coming weeks.

The state House gave preliminary approval to new income limits for the state's preschool program that would make it off-limits to about 30,000 children who would have qualified under the existing guidelines.