September 14, 1933 ~ October 8, 2024 (age 91) Born September 14, 1933, Valeta Suggs Cox, 91, of Tabor City, passed away on October 8, 2024. Valeta was a lifelong member of Old...
Conventional deer season opens in Columbus County and across the southeast Saturday. All deer hunters must wear a hat, cap or other outer garment of safety orange at all times....
Due to the impact of Hurricane Helene on pesticide training and recertification, private pesticide applicators statewide will have until Dec. 20 to meet their recertification requirements. “We made th...
Gambling is becoming a booming business in North Carolina. The N.C. State Lottery Commission said this morning (Oct. 9) that more than $575 million in bets were placed in September...
The application period for county governments and conservation nonprofit groups to apply for farmland preservation grants from the N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund op...
Good evening, Meteorologist Christopher Cawley here with an update on Category 5 Hurricane Milton. Milton underwent an eyewall replacement cycle on Tuesday and briefly weakened to a cat-4 … but...
Press Release October 8, 2024 Water Quality Issues & Boil Water Advisory Due to emergency repairs to the Public Water Supply System, a Boil Water Advisory has been issued for...
Vape and tobacco shops may soon be more tightly regulated in both the city and county. Columbus County commissioners on Monday set a public hearing on the draft ordinance regulating...
October 7, 2024 Mr. Legrande Powers (Buster) 69, of Whiteville, NC transitioned to be with the Lord on Monday, October 7, 2024, at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC....
May 19, 1940 ~ October 7, 2024 (age 84) Barbara Garrell Babson, age 84, of Elizabethtown, NC, died Monday, October 7, 2024 in Bladen East Health and Rehabilitation, Elizabethtown, NC. Born May 19,...
The Columbus County Agricultural Fair starts today and runs through October 13 at the County Fairgrounds on Prison Camp Road. This year’s event features the return of the Fair Queen...
Good Monday evening, Meteorologist Christopher Cawley here with an update on Milton. While impacts for the Whiteville area will be essentially nil, the same cannot be said for our friends...
March 4, 1941 ~ October 6, 2024 (age 83) Mildred Reaves Hancock of Whiteville NC passed away Sunday, October 6, 2024. She was born in Columbus County to the late Ernest Reaves and...
The yellow ribbons are for others now. The ribbons that flew from every utility pole, every door, and many a mailbox in October 2000 are long since gone, faded, shredded...
County Manager Eddie Madden said the county never prevented City of Whiteville assets from being deployed to the Hurricane Helene response. City officials expressed frustration last week after a team...
An eight-month-old child was hospitalized Friday with an infection from a surgical incision, a broken bone and cocaine in his bloodstream Social workers and the sheriff’s office were contacted after...