Catawba County News

Before the final budget ordinance is drafted, commissioners voted to approve shifting some money around for two school systems and to add money in next year's budget for the upcoming second primary.

Catawba County Sheriff's deputies discovered a shake and bake meth lab in Hickory on Thursday morning.

Catawba County, NC - A mother and her 1-year-old daughter were killed in a head-on crash with a tractor-trailer in North Carolina.

County officials are still looking into the best way to allow residents to express themselves by demonstrating after some back and forth last week over a request from Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate.

The public hearing starts at 7 p.m. at the 1924 Courthouse. It is a chance for residents to weigh in on the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

DENVER – A 26-year-old woman and her young daughter were killed Wednesday morning when their car collided with a tractor-trailer on N.C. 150 in Catawba County, authorities said.

The Times-News has learned that a woman and infant died after their vehicle hit a tractor-trailer head-on this morning on N.C. 150 near the Lincoln/Catawba County line.

Police are at the scene of a deadly accident in Catawba County that has shut down a Highway 150.

Anastacia Wilfong, a senior at Hickory Career Arts Magnet High School, talks about the close relationship she has with her mother.

Some clutched Bibles in their hands, warning of God's condemnation of homosexuality.

The North Carolina pastor who gave a disturbing, anti-gay sermon-in which he suggested rounding up all "queers and homosexuals" and quarantining them inside an electric fence-drew hundreds of protesters on Sunday.

Travis von Drehle, an Eagle Scout of Troop 387, points out numerous Eagle scout projects at Murray's Mill in Catawba.

ACLU , Love Not Hate , North Carolina Amendment One , Pastor Charles Worley , Providence Road Baptist Church , Nc , Newton , Protest , Reuters , Same Sex Marriage , Same-Sex Marriage , Slideexpand , NEWTON, N.C., May 27 - More than 1,000 people on Sunday protested a small-town North Carolina Baptist minister's sermon calling for gays and lesbians ... (more)

Protestors line the side walk of Southwest Boulevard during the Love Not Hate protest at the Catawba County Justice Center in Newton on Sunday.

Hundreds descended onto the Justice Center in Catawba County to protest a Maiden Pastor who is receiving national attention.

When that big, awesome B-52 bomber makes a low-level flyover at today's Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, Catawba County's own Dusty Price will be in the cockpit.

His passion for photography was renowned and his awards and recognitions for it were many throughout the US and the world.

THUMBS UP to Catawba County's government leaders for deciding after wise counsel to allow the Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate protest to go forward Sunday at the Justice Center.

We hope the 1,500 or so expected in Catawba County on Sunday remember the Biblical imperative that the preacher they're protesting apparently forgot – to love each other, and to treat people as they would like to be treated.

When civic leaders boasted that having the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was a chance to showcase the great things about living and working in North Carolina, they probably didn’t have recent events in mind.