Halifax News

Just two months after claiming North Carolina's sixth highest unemployment rate in the month of February, Ashe County continued consecutive months of improving unemployment, falling to 12.1 percent, according to data released by the N.C. Department of Commerce on May 25.

Revolutionary War soldier Solomon Fountain has been honored with a marker at William and Mary Hart Presbyterian Church in Leggett.

McDowell Countyi s one of the first three counties to participate in a new $100 million effort to improve the health and well-being of people in rural areas acrossNorth Carolinaover a 10-year period.

Both local members of the North Carolina House of Representatives won their party's nomination to continue in their role Tuesday.

More than 21,000 voters living within the Halifax County Schools district have a chance to vote could go to the polls next week on a property tax increase that would help boost local funding for the school system.