ROCKY MOUNT — Workers on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are taking a break from tree cutting along the route due to bird nesting season.

The 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline being built by Duke Progress Energy and Dominion Energy Transmission that will run through Nash County will…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina legislative Republicans on Thursday advanced their goal of permanently requiring voters to show photo identification — a proposal previously thwarted this decade by veto and federal judges who declared a similar mandate racially discriminatory.…

NASHVILLE — Eighteen offenders will face federal prosecution after being arrested for outstanding federal charges in a coordinated warrant enforcement operation.

Robert J. Higdon, Jr., U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina held a news conference on Thursday in the Nash…

The Pitt County Girls Softball League has been selected to host the Babe Ruth eastern North Carolina state tournament, beginning Saturday. Fundraising Manager Bo Batts sat down with preps beat writer Jake Keator to discuss the tournament and the impact it will make on the league and…

A day after Pitt County Post 39 won via forfeit against Kinston, the Pitt American Legion baseball squad travel to Wilson and dropped a 7-3 game.

Wilson was up 7-0 after five runs in the fourth inning.

Pitt (16-2) scored all of its runs in the fifth, getting an RBI from Robby Wacker and two by…

RE/MAX has the early advantage in the Greenville Little Leagues’ city championship series after a 12-2 win over Optimist on Wednesday night at Elm Street Park.

The score sat at 2-0, in favor of Optimist, after the top of the first inning. Holden Burroughs and Tyler Sparrow…

The sweeping outrage over President Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents is a welcome sign of our nation's moral and civic health. Ripping apart the family bond was too much even for some of Trump's most fervent apologists to take.

In the end, Trump had to back off, a…

As a family doctor since 1964, I have been called into court on several occasions to testify regarding the removal of children from their biological parents. In fact all over America, social services facilitates the removal of many children from their homes every day, a process that can…

I was lucky enough to have been born in the United States and have lived here my entire life. During most of those years, I have proudly said, I am an American. There were two periods when I couldn't make that statement: during the Abu Ghraib incident in the Iraq war where our U.S. military and the…

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Tryon Palace, 529 S. Front St., New Bern, is celebrating National Pollinator Week through Sunday. Free pollinator-themed events are sponsored by the Duke Energy Foundation. A pollinator garden tour will be held at 10 a.m. today. Tour the Palace gardens to see favorite pollinator…

Capsules of movies playing locally. New releases are indicated with an asterisk.

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR — The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice everything in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.…

The inaugural East Carolina Piano Festival will bring internationally acclaimed artists and promising young pianists to eastern North Carolina.

The event will feature three public concerts by the faculty and guest artists, as well as free concerts by the Young Artist Program participants.

The first…

His face first popped up in my Facebook feed — shaggy gray fur, big brown eyes and a pink, lolling tongue.

His name was Miles, and a local rescue organization was trying to find him a home.

Miles was an older dog, abandoned at the animal shelter with a host of health problems. He could barely…

In one of my favorite pictures of my father and me, I’m kissing him on the cheek, and he’s looking at the camera with an expression of tired surprise. It was at the end of a weekend visit, and we were saying our goodbyes outside the restaurant where we’d met for breakfast.

I see…

Pitt County is home to world-class eastern North Carolina barbecue.

But there probably aren’t many who realize that different branches of the same family have cooked and sold barbecue in the Ayden area alone for more than 150 years. In fact, two of the best barbecue joints in North Carolina…