The Robeson County Board of Commissioners is now ruled by Republicans for the first time after three members switched ...

Two local charter schools have a significantly higher percentage of white and wealthier students a report from Public Schools ...

If Richard Sceiford ever dreamed of donning a hard hat, it would have been for a stage role as a construction worker. But the lifelong thespian now spends much of his day in a work zone in downtown ...

Town officials call say a power surge an "Act of God." But lost home appliances and municipal financial documents suggest ...

The Action Pathways Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina serves several counties, including Bladen and ...

Now 73, he said he continued to eschew racist ideologies—at the tobacco markets where he befriended Tuscarora residents, in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, and at the General Assembly in Raleigh ...

Life-size replicas of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will be installed in ...

By Ben Rappaport benrappaport@borderbelt.org This is the first in a two-part project about the children’s mental health crisis in Bladen, Columbus, Robeson and Scotland counties. Read the second story ...

By Heidi Perez-Moreno Phyllis Williams was devastated when doctors diagnosed her with HIV in 2015. She had contracted the virus during a blood transfusion, and she felt her life would never be the ...

The longevity of these connections, and strong dedication to Jewish traditions, are part of what makes Whiteville an anomaly in the larger story of the Jewish South. “All around them in places like ...

By Danielle Battaglia and Sarah Nagem This story is co-published with The News & Observer and The Assembly. Jarrod Lowery remembers the frustration in his grandmother’s voice as they waited in line to ...

By Rachel Baldauf r achelbaldauf@borderbelt.org After Hurricane Florence pummeled Bladen County in 2018, Amanda West had to start over. West, the owner of Over Yonder Coffee, Teas, & Creamery in ...