Ben Bahr leads the university’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Lab, which is working to develop a low-cost treatment for the brain disorder.

The N.C. Court of Appeals ruled this month that the mayor, who lost by 19 votes in 2023, did not have sufficient evidence of irregularities.

Public Schools of Robeson County remained slightly above the statewide average with an incident rate of 7.8 per 1,000 ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act shifts a greater share of the food program’s administrative costs to North Carolina and the state's counties.

Jason Wray, superintendent of the Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy, watches as students leave the "mess hall." (Photo by Les High) The state board that oversees charter schools in North Carolina had ...

The N.C. Department of Public Transportation plans to make Second Street in downtown Lumberton safer for pedestrians.

As neighboring South Carolina deals with an outbreak, local health officials are working to get more children vaccinated.

St. Andrews was acquired by Webber International University in 2011. (Julia Wall for The Assembly) The nonprofit organization that owns most of the land once belonging to St. Andrews University, which ...

If Richard Sceiford ever dreamed of donning a hard hat, it would have been for a stage role as a construction worker. But the lifelong thespian now spends much of his day in a work zone in downtown ...

It was supposed to be beautiful: Thick green husks of sweet corn growing eight feet tall for as far as the eye could see across Ethan Jordan’s farm in Columbus County. At the beginning of May, the ...