Business in, around and outside of Columbus County
The days of worrying about a sweat-smeared hunting permit or sopping wet fishing license are over. Effective July 1, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (WRC) launched a new, custom licensing syste...
With temperatures and heat indices topping 105 degrees in the coming days, Duke Progress Energy on Thursday asked customers to conserve electricity. The news release came out as more than...
Columbus Regional Healthcare System announced Monday that Megan Sargent is the new Chief Nursing Officer for the hospital. In a press release, CRHS said Sargent was born and raised in...
Southeastern Community College (SCC) has announced the opening of its comprehensive Truck Driver Training program. SCC will be working in collaboration with Caldwell Community College and Technical In...
An internet outage has interrupted service at numerous driver license offices and license plate agencies in portions of central and eastern North Carolina, the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles reported...
Cellular phone coverage has been interrupted throughout southeastern North Carolina. A regional cell phone outage is affecting Columbus and Brunswick counties. Emergency officials said landlines and w...
The Bladen County Sherriff’s Office is looking to add new family members to their team. BCSO is currently accepting applications for deputy sheriffs, detention officers, and school resource offi...
Southeastern Community College (SCC) will be partnering with a cutting edge information technology company to hire IT specialists locally. Provalus hopes to expand to Columbus County and bring more th...
With balloons, shaved ice, and a big crowd of kids, the new Trillium Playground opened at the County Fitness Park Thursday. Trillium is the county’s contract provider for mental health...
Some Duke Energy customers are still without power this morning (Tuesday) after a tree fell on a line near Bolton yesterday, as the second 100-degree plus day gets underway. At...
Madison Street through downtown Whiteville is open again, after emergency repairs on the facade at Merchantile on Madison have been completed. The facade had separated from the main wall of...
Repair work is continuing on the former Leder Bros. department store in downtown Whiteville, where a brick facade threatened to collapse Wednesday. City Manager Darren Currie said the facade was...
Columbus County Transportation has been awarded a $280,000 federal grant. The N.C. Dept. of Transportation announced today (June 29) that Columbus will receive the grant to pay for improvements to...
Traffic on part of Madison Street in downtown Whiteville is being detoured to Lee due to “construction issues” on a building in the 700 block today (Wednesday). Vehicle traffic is...
Local leader Dewey Lewis Hill passed away today (Tuesday). Hill, 97, served ten terms in the state house, representing Columbus and Brunswick counties, from 1992 until 2012. As a young...
A Whiteville house went under the excavator Monday and Tuesday as part of the city’s flood hazard mitigation buyout program. The property at 705 S. Franklin Street was heavily damaged...