The boards of both local school systems and Southeastern Community College want voters to know how funds raised from the proposed sales...

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, left, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, and U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis listen to county officials and Whiteville...

BB&T announced Tuesday it will consolidate its Whiteville-area operations into a new $20 million facility that will be built at the...

The public will have a chance to weigh in on proposed county incentives for a $22 million bio-mass plant near Clarendon that would create...

Both local school systems will have millions of dollars in additional construction money, thanks to a Needs Based Grant from the state...

The state has created a $56.5 million Disaster Recovery Fund to assist with Hurricane Florence response and is allowing school districts...

R.J. Corman Railroad will receive a $600,000 grant from the N.C. Department of Transportation (DOT) to re-establish rail service to the...

Following a recent decision by the Columbus County commissioners to split the operations of the Economic Development and Planning...

The 10th Annual Take the Lake brought 577 participants to Lake Waccamaw this hot Labor Day weekend. An estimated 200 people took to the...

The former automobile dealership property in Fair Bluff that will be transformed into a wildlife sanctuary for big cats has officially...

Organizers of the tenth annual Take the Lake weekend at Lake Waccamaw are saluting the holistic basis of human well-being with the theme...

A section of U.S. 74/76 in eastern Columbus County will be improved with the construction of medians and a traffic signal. The N.C....

Columbus Regional Healthcare System has selected John E. Young as its new president and CEO. Andy Martin, chairman of the CRHS Board of...

On a hot August morning recently, Doug Smith cast a Beetlespin toward a ripple under the Crusoe Bridge. The lure flashed in the brown...

Susie Rockel and her husband, Vincent, moved from the sand hills of the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the eastern end of Columbus...

Gov. Roy Cooper visited Fair Bluff Monday, his third visit to the flood-ravaged town since taking office. He spent an hour here after...

Lake Waccamaw will be the site of Take The Lake for the 10th year in a row on Labor Day weekend, Sept. 1-3. TTL committee members have...

The North Carolina Future Farmers of America Association selected Kaleb Wilson of Cerro Gordo as their vice president at the 90th State...

By Allen Turner allenturner@nrcolumbus.com Hundreds of teenagers and adult volunteers arrived in Columbus County over the weekend to...