A public forum Saturday is designed to build relationships between the sheriff’s office and the community. The Unity in Our Communities event starts at 10 a.m. at Whiteville High School auditorium. It...
Updated June 28 3:45 p.m. Every county except for one in North Carolina is now in either a drought or abnormally dry, the state Drought Monitor reported today (June 27). Columbus County is listed as h...
By Amanda Irwin Boys and Girls Home of N.C. This year’s Southern Farm Days held March 15-17 on the Boys and Girls Homes Farm attracted some of the largest crowds in the farm heritage festival’s 14 yea...
Deputies and Tabor City Police arrested a suspect wanted for larceny and other crimes in several cases stretching back to earlier this year. Courtney Cole Scott, 31, of 118 Canal St., Tabor City, was ...
June 30, 1954 ~ June 24, 2024 (age 69) Sammie Ransom, 69, of Bladenboro, died on Monday, June 24, 2024, in the Novant New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Sammie was born on June 30, 1954, son of the ...
November 10, 1957 ~ June 24, 2024 (age 66) James Mitchell 66, of the St. James Community, Lake Waccamaw, NC, departed this life on Monday, June 24, 2024 at Lower Cape Fear Lifecare Angel House in Whit...
Outdated pesticides will be collected at no cost in Columbus County July 23. The Columbus County Extension Office and state Dep. of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Pesticide Disposal Assistance Pro...
Columbus Animal Protective Services will be closed and offering limited services July 10-15. In a social media announcement, APS officials said the office will not be open to the public, and traps wil...
By Kayla Henson Columbus County Partnership for Children The N.C. Partnership for Children is part of a significant expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL) program in North Carolina, wi...
By Andrew Casas USDA ARS Office of Communications Part Two of a Series Scientists hope research onto a water-resistant delivery method will soon be useful in creating more methods of controlling firea...
Speed and improper passing contributed to a June 7 fatal crash minutes after the end of the school year, and one of the teens in the crash has been charged. Kamari Smith, 16, was cited for misdemeanor...
A father and a baby died Sunday in a fire near White Lake. Bladen County Fire Marshall Kenneth Clark said the blaze was reported around 2:30 p.m. When firefighters arrived at the home on Susie Sandhil...
Fair Bluff’s Watermelon Festival is being promoted as a chance to say goodbye to some of the town’s iconic downtown district. After being critically damaged in flooding from hurricanes Matthew and Flo...
The N.C. Forest Service will begin accepting orders Monday, July 1, for its annual tree seedling sale. With an average annual production of 16 million seedlings, the NCFS Nursery Program produces enou...
The state senate on Thursday proposed three constitutional amendments on illegal immigration, voter IDs and a state income tax cap. The original amendment, SB 630, only addressed that U.S. citizens ma...
By Olga Vicente USDA Agriculture Research Service Part One of a Series Scientists hope a fly can help control one of the most hated invasive pests of the South, the fire ant. Fire ants are a relate...