Town officials call say a power surge an "Act of God." But lost home appliances and municipal financial documents suggest ...

The Action Pathways Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina serves several counties, including Bladen and ...

UNC-Chapel Hill historian Kathleen DuVal won a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America." ...

Two local charter schools have a significantly higher percentage of white and wealthier students a report from Public Schools ...

Life-size replicas of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will be installed in Elizabethtown.

The Border Belt Independent and local news partners hosted a listening session for young people at The News Reporter office in Whiteville.

Beth has always enjoyed cooking. But the kitchen at the home she shared with her ex-boyfriend for 10 years had become a war zone. He would criticize her every move, said Beth, who declined to share ...

After Hurricane Florence pummeled Bladen County in 2018, Amanda West had to start over. West, the owner of Over Yonder Coffee, Teas, & Creamery in Bladenboro, said flood waters were 3 feet deep inside ...

Grace Gerberry has been riding horses since she was big enough to sit up on one. When it came time to choose a college, a Google search led her to St. Andrews University in North Carolina. After ...

This is the second story in a two-part project about children’s mental health care in Bladen, Columbus, Robeson and Scotland counties. Read the first story here. Amanda Price and her husband were ...