The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office is getting a new tool to help solve crimes — license plate readers that will notify deputies if a wanted vehicle drives by. During their meeting Tuesday, county commissioners unanimously approved Sheriff B…
If Columbus County commissioners move forward with the plan an architect presented to them Tuesday night, it could cost the county nearly $5 million to convert a vacant bank building into an entrepreneurship center.
“If you haven’t driven” on East Virgil Street lately, “just go one block,” Tammy McCullum suggested to Whiteville City Council Tuesday night. The potholes on that road, she said, are “terrible.”
In North Carolina, public bodies can only meet behind closed doors for specific reasons, but what goes on behind those doors is still a matter of public record. State statute is clear: "Every public body shall keep full and accurate minutes o…
Columbus County Sheriff’s Office promoted Deputy Emmett G. Brown to the rank of corporal Wednesday morning. The surprise ceremony took place in the Columbus County Courthouse.
Southeastern Community College has increased its focus on public safety training recently, and that emphasis is reflected in the college’s county budget request for the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1.
In a follow-up interview with The News Reporter, Chadbourn Mayor Phillip Britt provided additional details about the town’s 23.72% pay raise for its police force, approved by Chadbourn Town Council on March 7.
After close to an hour in closed session Tuesday, the Lake Waccamaw Town Council voted unanimously to purchase a three-bedroom mobile home from Marty Wright Home Sales of Chadbourn. Mayor Matt Wilson described it as “a trailer for temporary h…
Columbus County’s new drug treatment referral hotline that launched Feb. 6 resulted in a dozen people being admitted to a Wilmington recovery facility last month, according to a consultant who is helping county government implement a strategi…
Chadbourn Town Council unanimously approved a 23.72% increase to its police officers’ salaries Tuesday night.
Fair Bluff residents should be able to drink water from the town’s new well in December, engineer and project manager Carter Hubard from the W.K. Dickson Company told the town council during its meeting Tuesday. Hubard predicted that construc…
After hearing comments from the public Tuesday evening, the Columbus County Planning Board voted unanimously to recommend county approval of a proposed 1,000-unit housing development near the state line and a 22-unit development off Antioch C…
