Developers want the city of Greenville to rezone and annex more than 190 acres on three large plots of land near D.H. Conley High School for single-family homes.  

Three requests to change the properties from rural agricultural zoning to single-family residential are scheduled to go…

Pitt County Schools is getting closer to finishing its professional development center after the Board of Education reviewed of bids for renovations the building’s interior. 

The system purchased a building on Charles Boulevard to house the Pitt County Schools Professional Development…

The fate of Greenville’s red-light camera program and the income it has generated for Pitt County Schools now rests with three judges.

Attorneys representing the city, Pitt County Schools and Mary Sue Vaitovis presented their arguments for summary judgment in the case of Vaitovis v. City and…

The final four has arrived for spring high school baseball and softball, with both sports on the brink of determining representatives for the state championships, meaning this week’s regional series will provide the biggest moments this season.

Only one area school, D.H. Conley, remains in…

As expected, East Carolina baseball’s record-breaking season was officially recognized by the American Athletic Conference on Monday.

Jake Agnos earned the AAC pitcher of the year award, just four days after he set a new league single-season record for strikeouts with 124 in 83.0 innings this…

East Carolina needs a new women’s golf coach, which is an unfamiliar position for the Pirates.

Kevin Williams, who started the ECU program in the fall of 2000, officially resigned Monday to join Kalen Anderson’s staff at South Carolina as an assistant coach.

During his two-tenure, 17-…

I have followed with interest your series on the opioid epidemic with which we are currently struggling. A major concern has to do with access to treatment. The standard of care for persons addicted to opioids is medication assisted treatment, a combination of medication, such as Buprenorphine or…

Not that long ago, North Carolina Democrats had the "big tent" party — an eclectic group that shared common values but disagreed on many individual issues.

Moderate — sometimes even conservative — rural Democrats in the legislature worked alongside big city liberals. The moderates…

Later this week, North Carolina will renew its partnership with a little-known country that's been bringing out the best in our state's people for more than two decades.

North Carolina's National Guard has been helping the country's defense forces throughout this time. Librarians from Wilmington…

“You have a purpose — you are somebody.”

That was the message for approximately 80 senior adults at the 16th annual Senior Citizens Appreciation Ceremony from keynote speaker Willis Bernard, co-pastor of About My Father’s Business Ministries.

The three-hour lunchtime…

Patty's Place is a small downtown restaurant that serves lunch from 11 to 4. The place is busy, but quick, clean and pleasant. Patty cooks everything herself, the menu is short and the regular customers love it.

Her specialty is a large wedge of crustless green-chile quiche with a side salad…

Elizabeth City native De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s debut novel, “In West Mills” might be the blackest novel set in North Carolina this year, maybe ever.

This book is all about African Americans living and struggling in eastern North Carolina from about 1940 to 1987.…

Elizabeth City native De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s debut novel, “In West Mills” might be the blackest novel set in North Carolina this year, maybe ever.

This book is all about African Americans living and struggling in eastern North Carolina from about 1940 to 1987.…

I love foreign languages and travel, I love alpine skiing and I love interesting local color. So when I had a chance to take a four-week paid sabbatical from work some years ago, I spent more than a year researching the perfect destination that could scratch all those itches simultaneously. Ruthie…

Mom was our navigator, and her GPS was a 1966 book of maps that needed no correction for millionths of seconds.

In those days, the Global Positioning System was a military secret, so when she planned a 14,000-mile summer trip, she was on her own with pencils and a few brochures. In January she…