Communities in Pitt and surrounding counties received a share in $127 million in statewide loans and grants to help pay for critical drinking water and wastewater projects, Gov. Roy Cooper announced.

The grants and loans come from sources including the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loan…

ELIZABETH CITY — A man charged with felony accessory is suspected of helping his daughter cover up a near-fatal assault on her boyfriend, police say. 

Clarence Ray Bundy Jr., 46, and his daughter, Hannah Renee Bundy, 21, both of the 1100 block of Lynch’s Corner Road in Elizabeth…

ROCKY MOUNT — The East Carolina Agriculture and Education Center on Kingsboro Road in Rocky Mount will be teeming with activity on April 2-3 when the 82nd Eastern Carolina 4-H Livestock Show and Sale takes place.

4-H Clubs from Edgecombe, Halifax and Nash counties will participate and club…

Like most college football teams, and even East Carolina under the previous coaching staff, first-year head coach Mike Houston plans for ECU’s quarterback to mainly operate out of the shotgun.

“There is points and times where we may be under center, but it is not going to be a lot,…

BETHEL — Despite the wet conditions, North Pitt had no trouble dispatching of South Central at home Thursday evening, winning 10-0 in five innings.

The Panthers (10-0) were led from the mound by Davidson commit Jacob Peaden, who continues to impress in his senior season. He went five innings,…

Senior high school basketball players from around the area will meet at Fike High School in Wilson on March 24  to participate in the first 252 Classic. The event, created by Jeremy Jeffers, will help local unsigned seniors gain more college exposure, and for others, may be the final time the…

Bless our hearts! If Staton is not good enough to be chancellor because of alleged swamp controversy, how is he good enough to be an adviser? Guess to justify the $300,000 plus payout!

Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should listen to a friend tell her that it is very difficult to talk and learn at the…

If the ECU chancellor search would follow the guidelines that Calvin Mercer outlined in his letter to the editor published Wednesday, I believe the outcome would be a highly qualified new leader and an enhanced national reputation for ECU.

This assessment is based on my involvement in numerous…

My name is Kennedy Tate, I am in 11th grade and I am a Boy Scout with Troop 30 at Jarvis. I am writing this letter to express my concerns about the Green New Deal proposal. I do believe in the preservation and conservation of the Earth. However, the GND does this in an ineffectual and costly manner.…

GREENSBORO — State judicial officials say a North Carolina judge has been suspended with pay, although no official reason has been given.

Sharon Gladwell of the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts said in an email that Chief Justice Cheri Beasley ordered a temporary suspension of…

When Andrew Gould began designing a sanctuary for Holy Ascension Orthodox Church in Charleston, South Carolina, he started by creating an imaginary backstory for the parish.

Instead of beginning with a circle of Orthodox families and converts in 1996, the art historian and architect imagined that a…

Cool, clean salads may not seem appropriate for March, when the weather wobbles between the tentative spring rays of sunshine and the stubborn gray remnants of winter. But maybe that's why this salad is perfectly timed.

You can apply the cliches "less is more" and "what you see is what you get,…

Seven months ago, I wrote a column about discovering a serious vitamin deficiency that was at least one apparent cause of significant changes in my mood and behavior.

When I wrote it, I had just been sent home after three awful weeks in the hospital, and I figured the worst was behind me.…

"Did tonight's meal kit get delivered yet?"

I'm trying to recall how many times I heard my mother say those words.

Oh, yeah, never. It's hard to believe that there was a time not so long ago when you had to go to a restaurant or to a friend's house to eat something you didn't make yourself in your…

One of the great joys of having siblings is living with the knowledge that they will never forget anything you ever have said.

Wait did I say, one of the great joys? I meant one of my biggest worries.

Sometimes it is actually quite fun to recall famous family quotes. My sister Nancy and I spent…