State officials announced Friday that another $3.6 million in disaster recovery money for housing has been awarded to buy out 34...

NC Emergency Management announced Monday that $24.5 million in federal and state funds will be spent to acquire, elevate or reconstruct...

The results are in, and the class of 2018 “fifteen under 40” is another outstanding group. The outside panel of judges chose 15 young...

The long-awaited link near the Lake Waccamaw Dam could be complete within two weeks. The project, a cooperative effort between the State...

A happy group held a ribbon-cutting at the YMCA swimming pool in Fair Bluff Saturday on the occasion of the pool’s official opening. A...

Columbus County commissioners voted 4-3 Monday night June 18 to rezone land off Georgia Pacific Road to permit an asphalt plant on the...

Columbus County commissioners Tuesday night at the conclusion of a budget workshop reversed a decision they had made the night before and...

Columbus County 2018 budget

Three census tracts in Columbus County have been certified by the U.S. Treasury as “Economic Opportunity Zones,” qualifying investors to...

“My goal for this year is to try or do something new and exciting each month,” said Leslie Faulk, principal of Cerro Gordo Elementary...

Columbus Career and College Academy graduated 57 members of the class of 2018 Tuesday in commencement exercises held at West Columbus...

It’s back to the drawing board for Malec Brothers, at least from the perspective of the county commissioners. Citing public opinion...

Several of the biggest highway projects in the county will soon be seeing some activity. Ken Clark of the Whiteville Department of...

Superintendent Kenny Garland announced Thursday, May 10, that Whiteville High School had been named number 57 among North Carolina’s Best...

Construction on two county schools will begin “about this time next year,” said architect David Clinton of Szostak Design. Preliminary...

Whiteville is a prime location for several historic districts, according to a State Historic Preservation Office specialist. Beth King...

By Allen Turner An Australian-owned timber shipping company that has been operating in Columbus County since January hopes to triple its...

Members of the Columbus Jobs Foundation heard lots of good local economic news Monday at their annual spring meeting at The Spillway...

The Whiteville Downtown Development Commission (WDDC) voted Wednesday to accept the recommendation of its soon-to-be-departing executive...

Gene Merritt didn’t plan on spending three years in Whiteville. When he came to the city in October 2015, the theninterim executive...