Council News

Although money will still be accepted and put to good use, the Bladen Journal's annual Empty Stocking Fund effort closed this week on a high note.

The Elizabethtown Town Council unanimously voted to adopted a driving record policy last week.

To Greg Cummings, Robeson County's economic development director, the proposed $2 million to $3 million expansion of Pembroke-based Caring Touch Home and Behavioral Health Care is a real "Cinderella story." The company has received a $480,000 N.C. Rural Center Building Reuse and Restoration Grant and plans to renovate an old 40,000-square-foot ...

It looks like Republican political organizer and gadfly Michael Muller has just posted his first in a series of political commentaries about Asheville and state doings.

Rocky Mount officials are preparing to launch a program to engage city residents and teach them about the function and scope of local government.

A North Carolina politician who heads a national Muslim civil rights group has condemned the Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

On a recent camping trip with his son's Cub Scout troop, Curtis Barwick ended a talk about his job managing contracts for the now-bankrupt Coharie Hog Farms with a desperate plea.

Election officials in Columbus County will wait until they finish another recount to make a decision about investigating an election protest.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 8:04 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 8:04 p.m. THOMASVILLE In April, 2008, Robert Harmon entered the empty house on Martin Luther King Boulevard his parents built in 1960 to find the floor covered in sewage.

President Obama signed an executive order this week creating a Council on Veterans Employment, requiring federal agencies to increase efforts to hire vets and to track those efforts.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 2:05 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 2:05 p.m. Several cast and crew members of 'One Tree Hill' and government officials gathered at EUE/Screen Gems Studios Thursday morning to witness Governor Beverly Perdue sign Executive Order 28, which reauthorizes the North Carolina Film Council.

Sustainable reconciliation is impossible to achieve without rectifying economic injustice, former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa James A. Joseph, said during the Truth, Justice & Healing Conference held in Greensboro in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Nov.

Storyteller, author comedienne and motivational speaker Kelly Swanson will bring her newest program, Who Hijacked My Fairy Tale? How to Hang on to Humor When Life Doesn't Go the Way you Planned , to the Ashe Arts Center in West Jefferson at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov.

Ah, the smell of warm, freshly baked bread is an aroma which will make many a mouth water.

Submitted by WWAY on 5 November 2009 - 5:26pm. Election Day has come and gone, but the work is not over for Board of Elections officials in Columbus County.

Coharie Hog Farms aim is to pay the farmers it owes for the sale of corn, Coharie partner Anne Faircloth said inside the Clinton-based company's main office Monday.

As many as 30 farmers in southeastern North Carolina say they haven't been paid for corn delivered to a large pork-producing company run by the daughter of former U.S. Sen.

ELIZABETHTOWN a ' Police Chief Bobby Kinlaw said a shooting took place Thursday night off Martin Luther King Drive in Elizabethtown.

Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 2:04 a.m. THOMASVILLE The Thomasville City Council voted unanimously to appropriate $141,500 from the city's legal and water and sewer enterprise funds to pay outside firms to investigate a wastewater spill estimated at 15.9 million gallons over 20 days ...

North Carolina ranks 10th for grape and wine production in the United States. The state's fruit has created a major boost in the state's tourism industry.