Helicopters have been deployed to continue the search for a missing man at Lake Waccamaw. The 25 year old was kayaking somewhere between Dale’s Seafood and the 2500 block of Canal Cove when he went mi...
Water rescue units and drone teams are scouring Lake Waccamaw between Dale’s Seafood and the Sigmon Boat Ramp after a kayaker was reported missing. The kayaker has been described as a 25 year o...
Friday, Sept. 11 is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on our country. No matter where you were or what you were doing, we will never forget. We will never forget that moment you saw the TV, you ...
Seven inmates on the county roadside cleanup crew gathered 995 bags of trash during August. The Statewide Misdemeanant Confinement Program (SCDM) allows eligible county inmates the opportunity to prov...
Fleeing a sobriety checkpoint led to high bonds and multiple charges for a man and woman Aug. 28. Kasie Gwen Leonard and Marvin Magay Green were arrested after Green allegedly fled a checkpoint at N.C...
Deputies are reviewing video to find out who broke a window at the Brunswick ABC store Sept. 3. The window was discovered broken around 3:34 p.m., according to the report. Deputies responded to the st...
CERRO GORDO—The West Columbus Vikings were on a mission Friday night and they completed the mission with a 36-16 defeat of West Bladen. The Vikings were honoring Coach Brandon Smith, a long-time assis...
LAKE WACCAMAW—Brooks Albright threw two touchdown passes to lead the Chatham Central Bears to a 14-0 shutout of East Columbus on Friday night in football. In the first quarter, Albright found Gavin Wi...
LORIS–The Loris Lions scored on their first three plays on offense as the Lions’ crushed South Columbus 49-0. The Stallions were hit hard early and didn’t recover. On the first play from scrimma...
ELIZABETHTOWN—The Whiteville at East Bladen game lived up to its billing Friday as the Pack downed the Eagles 48-36. The game featured two of the best running backs in the area, Ty’lae Rose from White...
A possible waterspout sent boaters fleeing for cover near Lynn’s Place on Lake Waccamaw this afternoon. The apparent funnel cloud turned water feature was just outside the no wake line, said a ...
One lane of Hallsboro Road is back open as of 9 a.m., after a head-on collision this morning *Saturday). A van in the left lane collided with a fuel tanker, according to Joe Tyler of Hallsboro Volunte...
The lockdown at East Bladen High School has been lifted according to the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office. BCSO said in a press release that the school was secured earlier today “following a potential i...
Updated with the name of the inmate. Freedom was short-lived for a local inmate who broke away from a transport van Thursday, according to the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office. Court documents show An...
Imagine an additional 60,000 visitors to downtown Whiteville. That’s the goal for organizers of the Gateway Project, a new non-profit working to bring visitors off the U.S. 701 Bypass into busin...
By Katie Compton Boyd Guest Columnist It’s times like this when I question very seriously where exactly I am, what precisely has gone on, and how disappointed I am with many of my gender. I sat...