Elizabeth City News

A proposal before City Council to appoint one city councilor mayor pro-tem for a year and then appoint a different councilor in the coming year appears to pass legal muster, according to a municipal law expert whose opinion was sought by Elizabeth City officials.

He was the founder of Livingstone College. He was also the college's first president.

Elizabeth City police are searching for two suspects after shots were reportedly fired into a house at Hyman Circle Thursday night.

Those of us fortunate to live here know Elizabeth City is a great place to live, work and play.

Corbin Theatre Company is headed in a new direction with a new executive producer with a different accent and an international flair.

Pasquotank County leaders are trying to come up with a redistricting plan that will pass federal muster and increase representation for black residents.

A new study released Wednesday by Gov. Bev Perdue said North Carolina had the largest offshore wind resource on the East Coast and that the state should work with industry to develop the wind energy industry.

Interactive displays like this one will let museum visitors listen to actors read aloud letters written during the Civil War in Museum of the Albemarle's new Civil War exhibit, "Under Both Flags." The exhibit opens Saturday, 10 a.m., with events throughout the day, including Civil War re-enactors. Interactive displays like this one will let museum ... (more)

On Feb. 7, 1862, United States soldiers poured from surf boats onto Roanoke Island off of North Carolina's eastern shore.

There is a saying that Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week. But a group of area Christian pastors say they want to change that fact this Sunday with the annual Unity Service.

Staff Photo by Peter WilliamsToni McGovern, general manager of Hampton Inn in Elizabeth City, speaks to students from River Road Middle School Thursday, Feb.

Albemarle School celebrated its 100th day of school on Tuesday, Jan. 24, involving their students in a variety of activities.

The body of a cyclist found Friday in Pasquotank County was identified today as a 52-year-old Virginia Beach man.

Elizabeth City has agreed to let the county water system service Fountain of Life Ministries on U.S. 17 South.

Along with about 60 colleagues, I recently toured eastern North Carolina. We weren't loading up for the Outer Banks.

Inside Museum of the Albemarle's Civil War exhibit, the Theophlus White House will be represented with wall panels and artifacts from the actual Perquimans County structure.

The Albemarle Hospital Foundation has received the second of three annual installments of a grant to support health care clinics in northeastern North Carolina, including the one in Elizabeth City.

Barnhill construction workers prepare for the concrete to be poured and stamped at the intersection of Colonial Avenue and Poindexter Street, Wednesday.

She was recently named Senior Poet Laureate of Pennsylvania. submitted photoMildred Pearson Taylor grew up in Elizabeth City, encouraged by her teachers to write and get a good education.

Baltimore-by-way-of-Greenville, N.C. trio Future Islands is darkly romantic and dreamy, both heart-on-sleeve and somehow adrift from emotion on a cool, untroubled sea.