Martin County News Archives

The General Assembly closed Tuesday after more than six months of work dominated by the recession, a tight state budget and tax increases.

North Carolina legislators are close to giving a Canadian paper company up to $10 million to help it finance a production switch and retain hundreds of jobs in one of the state's poorest regions.

Highlights of legislation passed by the 2009 General Assembly include: - changed the state's calculation of corporate income taxes to give Apple Inc.

North Carolina legislators are close to giving a Canadian paper company up to $10 million to help it finance a production switch and retain hundreds of jobs in one of the state's poorest regions.

North Carolina legislators are close to giving a Canadian paper company up to $10 million to help it finance a production switch and retain hundreds of jobs in one of the state's poorest regions.

A major employer in the East is in danger of shutting its doors and putting hundred of people out of work in an already tough economy.

North Carolina legislators spent two days preparing to give a Canadian paper company up to $10 million before hitting the brakes on Thursday.

A man already under arrest for a murder in Martin County has now been charged in a shooting that happened in Greenville earlier that same day.

An extension cord that over-heated is believed to have sparked a fire on the second floor of a home Monday.