Annette Weston

Firefighters west of the Rose Hill area in Duplin County are gaining the upper hand after a fast-moving wildfire rapidly swelled to hundreds of acres, triggering emergency evacuations before regional storms and containment lines slowed its advance.

Order has been fully restored following a severe security breach and an hours-long hostage standoff that occurred yesterday at the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center in Windsor.

Scammers are bypassing spam filters by purchasing large lists of real phone numbers and cycling through them rapidly, often using a number just twice before moving on.

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon is returning to her hometown of New Bern next week as part of the "Great American Comeback Tour."

While the immediate threat to local homes has eased, authorities continue to monitor lingering hotspots and manage dense smoke spreading into neighboring coastal communities from separate blazes.

Order has been fully restored following a severe security breach and an hours-long hostage standoff that occurred at the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center in Windsor.

Board Chairman Neal Driver has filed a complaint with the North Carolina State Board of Elections against fellow board member Etsil Mason. The filing accuses Mason of violating state personnel law by publicly calling for the resignation of county elections director Janet Turner during an open meeting in April.

State Department of Transportation inspectors determined the pollution was not coming from the state's construction zone, but rather from a private rock road running parallel to the creek that partially washed out during heavy rainfall.

A NOAA proposal would require many recreational boats along the East Coast to travel at just 10 knots for up to 90 miles from shore to protect the Right whale.

Officials in "Little Washington" opened up the idea of declaring the Washington, North Carolina a “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” at Monday night's council meeting.