Due to flooding and high water, N.C. Forest Service officials have implemented a trail detour and closures at Turnbull Creek Educational State Forest (Elizabethtown). A detour is in place for Duncan T...
North Carolina’s price gouging law is in effect in Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, and New Hanover counties after Monday’s major rainfall and flooding. The Department of Justice reviews complaints ...
Steve Camlin knew Monday’s near-tropical system was going to be bad when he saw snapping turtles going for higher ground. “The incidents started after lunch,” he said. “It was raining so hard the turt...
Following is a list of partial road closures from Columbus County Emergency Services: Livingston Chapel Rd. Swimming Hole Rd. Brinkley Rd. Water Tank Rd. Neils Eddy Rd. creek flooded across the road N...
Kenji “Flash” Bowen was just trying to find a safe way home Monday when he ended up saving three lives. The 2018 East Columbus graduate and football and baseball standout was driving home to Leland wi...
A Delco man is being held under $250,000 bond after he was indicted for allegedly instructing a woman to teach a four year old to perform a sex act in a video he planned to sell. Christopher Ryan Ande...
Seven secondary roads and part of N.C. 87 remain closed today after historic rainfall from a tropical low pressure system drenched the county. The storm would have been Tropical Storm Helene, had it h...
Columbus Regional will close all Columbus County health network clinics and the Donayre Cancer Care Center at 3 p.m. today (Monday) due to the storm. Leland clinics are already closed due to unsafe dr...
Bookmark this report for continuing coverage. The coastal low known as Tropical System Eight is bringing heavy rainfall to Columbus County, and could bring wind gusts to 60 miles per hour before day’s...
The rainy weather cancelled or postponed a number of events – even football – in our area, but there’s still plenty going on, rain or shine. • The Southeastern Genealogical Society will meet Saturday ...
The Thursday night lights didn’t shine bright for two of the three county football teams that moved their games due to the forecast rain for tonight. Whiteville brought a win home Thursday from ...
Yet another student is facing disciplinary action after the fourth prank threat against a county school in three days. The sheriff’s office said a seventh grader at East Columbus Junior-Senior High wa...
Leroy Moore Jr. will spend the rest of his life in prison, after the jury in his retrial returned a guilty verdict today (Sept. 12). Moore was found guilty of first degree murder, possession of a fire...
Columbus Regional Healthcare System has added a new and more advanced robotic surgery assistance device to its treatment options. The Intuitive da Vinci 5 surgical system is designed with the goal of ...
More than $554,000 in food benefit dollars have been stolen from North Carolina’s Food and Nutrition Services participants since Aug. 18, according to a news release from the state Department of Healt...
Three teenagers have been charged with making threats against county schools in two separate incidents. Timya Riggins, 18, and Wesley Pridgen, 19, were taken into custody late this morning (Sept. 12) ...