Democratic state Sen. Val Applewhite of Fayetteville this spring has filed bills to send more than $72 million to Cumberland County for clean water, for public safety, and to address infrastructure …
There will be a final lesson waiting Saturday for more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students who will turn their tassels and embark on careers to come.
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners is on track to approve two new early intervention programs aimed at youth affected by opioid abuse.
Got a problem with where you’re assigned to vote? County officials say you can thank the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Fayetteville Public Works Commission plans a $439.1 million budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, a decrease of $25.8 million from this year’s budget, which is $464.9 million.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper wants to send more than $10 million to Fayetteville State University and more than $73 million Cumberland County for school construction.
The Cumberland County Board of Education unanimously approved Superintendent Dr. Marvin Connelly Jr.'s recommended budget for fiscal year 2024-25 — but not without facing some tough truths about teacher pay.
Preliminary results from a 24-hour count of Cumberland County’s homeless population appear to show a roughly 21% decrease from 2023, county officials said Tuesday.
Cumberland County is being considered for a titanium reprocessing facility. American Titanium Metal LLC, is seeking to borrow up to $1.3 billion to make it happen.
Cumberland County needs about 1,000 precinct officials staffing the polls on Election Day, but as of this week, the county is still 550 workers short — meaning possible longer wait times at the polls come November.
‘There is not enough gratitude in our hearts for Gold Star families,’ LaRue Cooke says as the Cross Creek-Briarwood Garden Club unveils the Gold Star Memorial next to the Blue Star Memorial Highway marker.
Ilana Sheppard and Lydia Nichols know all too well the cost of America’s mental health crisis.
Cumberland County Schools is mourning the passing of C. Fletcher Womble Jr., the former Fayetteville City Schools superintendent who played a pivotal role in the 1985 merger of the city and county school systems.
Community support and volunteers helped the Fayetteville Dogwood Festival organization navigate some of its toughest times and hold a successful 2024 festival, board members said.
They came this day to remember the old football coach who always inspired them to do their best, be their best and give their best. John Daskal taught his young athletes not just under the Friday night lights of the football stadium, but in every step of their lives.
A gathering at the Cumberland County Democratic Party headquarters on Thursday was a harbinger that North Carolina will again be a factor in the outcome of the presidential election.
With high school graduation on the horizon, Fort Liberty students and parents are preparing for a new chapter.
The passing of Fayetteville Fire Department Battalion Chief John Bowen, who died at age 35 on April 16, 2022, six months after being diagnosed with colon cancer, has been ruled a Line-Of-Duty Death by the N.C. Industrial Commission.
As Fayetteville State University Chancellor Darrell T. Allison passed his third anniversary at the helm of the storied campus on March 15, he had accomplishments to celebrate. …
Electricity customers of the Fayetteville Public Works Commission experience less time without power than those of most other electric utility companies.
If there was one thing the crowd of 230 people in E.E. Smith’s auditorium could agree on Tuesday night, it was that Fayetteville’s beloved historically Black high school needs new facilities.
Early voting starts Thursday for Republican second primary for North Carolina lieutenant governor, and the GOP second primary for state auditor.
Fridays are “shopping days” for Alger B. Wilkins High School students, but those shopping trips don’t involve a visit to Cross Creek Mall.
Five large buildings are for sale along the Hay Street and Person Street corridor in downtown Fayetteville. And a sixth one almost sold in March.
After the State Board of Education learned earlier this month that North Carolina’s teacher attrition rate jumped 3.67% in a year, Cumberland County Schools officials — faced with the third-highest rate in the state — are looking at their own numbers and considering best practices to keep teachers in county schools.