Efland News

Authorities say a train collided with a vehicle in Efland Tuesday morning, killing two people.

Two people were killed this morning when an Amtrak train hit a vehicle at the Mount Willing Road crossing in Efland in northwestern Orange County.

An Amtrak train heading from Charlotte to New York struck a car at a North Carolina railroad crossing, killing two people.

Alchemists have been around since the Middle Ages claiming the ability to turn base metals into gold.

Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat Center near Efland will become the fourth U.S. home to an EcoEternity Forest, a relatively new green-burial concept.

Pro Joel Richardson of Kernersville, N.C., caught five bass weighing 10 pounds, 15 ounces Saturday to win the Stren Series Northern Division tournament on Lake Gaston with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 36 pounds, 9 ounces.

Christiana Lutheran Christiana Lutheran Church will celebrate homecoming this Sunday.

Karen McAdams is always the first to arrive and the last to leave both days of the Central Piedmont Junior Livestock show and sale.

Home of the Month is a collaborative effort with the N.C. State University College of Design through its Home Environments Design Initiative.

A joke always seems to be on the tip of Howard McAdams' tongue, soon to be followed by his easy laugh.

How many people in North Carolina have access to high-speed Internet service, and how many do not? That question must be answered if North Carolina is to receive any of the $7.2 billion in federal stimulus money for broadband deployment.

Kathryn Elizabeth Champion and Justin MacArthur Cole of Efland were married at six o'clock in the evening on June 13, 2009, at Hodgin Valley Farm in Pleasant Garden.

The Triangle areaa s only remaining drive-in theatre and North Carolinaa s oldest operating drive-in theatre turns 60 years old this coming Wednesday, July 15, 2009.

About 50 Orange County Parks and Recreation campers were the very first ones to try out the new $4 million soccer complex in Efland this week.

Efland Cheeks Elementary school has its first summer reading program, this year, the News of Orange County reports.

The following have been charged with driving while impaired. A registration of .08 or higher on the Intox EC/IR II results in an automatic 30-day revocation of a driver's license.

The Herald Sun reports a $4 million athletic complex a decade in the making is now just weeks from opening in Efland.

Andy Ives, an Efland, N.C., native and recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, is biking cross-country to raise awareness for the affordable housing crisis in America.

Ten years ago, walking around a certain 61-acre parcel of land in Efland was more like off-roading. All you could see were overgrown weeds and trees coming out of nutritionally parched soil that had been slashed and burned several times in previous decades.

Library closings are far from the only budget cut Orange County faces this year.