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By Les High Chairman Columbus Jobs Foundation When I was born in 1961, the population of Whiteville and Columbus County was about 5,000...

By: Ivey Schofield The City of Whiteville just got a boost in its efforts to stimulate economic development downtown through a program...

By: Thomas Sherrill, The News Reporter A student walking onto Southeastern Community College’s campus this fall probably won’t see many...

Editor’s note. This is the third of a three-part series on the Lumber River and its potential as an eco-tourism destination. Dickson...

By Thomas Sherrill, The News Reporter An industrial park that overlaps the Brunswick-Columbus county line on U.S. 74-76 will have its...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series that features the Lumber River. Part I covered ecotourism possibilities for...

This is the first in a series of three stories about the lower section of the Lumber River and the revitalization of Fair Bluff. A future...

By: Thomas Sherrill, The News Reporter Pamela Young Jacobs, Director of the Small Business Center Years after graduating from...

By: Thomas Sherrill, The News Reporter The roughly half-century-old terminal building at Columbus County Municipal Airport could be...

Seventy-five students graduated from Columbus Career and College Academy in the West Columbus High School auditorium Tuesday night....

By: Ivey Schofield, The News Reporter The Whiteville City Council decided Tuesday, April 12, 2021, to rezone and annex a property on Love...

By Thomas Sherrill, The News Reporter Construction travel and campgrounds helped Columbus County fare better than many other locations in...

Southeastern Community College held its spring commencement exercises Friday morning in front of the A-Building on the college’s campus....

A customer enters the new BB&T on J.K. Powell Boulevard in Whiteville. Photo by Justin Smith By: The News Reporter The Cape Fear chapter...

Current Columbus County voter precincts. By: Ivey Schofield, The News Reporter The Columbus County Board of Elections decided Monday to...

By: The News Reporter More than 30 employers from a variety of industry sectors are participating in a hiring event Tuesday, May 11 at...

Columbus County Manager Eddie Madden By: Thomas Sherrill, The News Reporter Making the drive from Elizabethtown each morning has been an...

By: Les High, The News Reporter Columbus County has had three good wins with new industrial announcements in the past month, reflecting...

Gary Lanier, director of the Columbus County Economic Development Commission, talks to Jay Memula, right, of Jay Technologies about the...

ATMC continues its expansion of high-speed internet in Columbus County, announcing Tuesday that the service is now available in the New...