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Fayetteville police officers bought school supplies to contribute to a back-to-school giveaway Saturday at the Fort Bragg Harley Davidson dealership on Sycamore Dairy Road, according to a news release.

SPRING LAKE — The Spring Lake Board of Aldermen on Monday night will consider approving the new Spring Lake Area Land Use plan.  The comprehensive land use plan for Spring Lake was last …

Why Chemours is challenging EPA over PFAS drinking water advisory

In response to an updated federal drinking water advisory, the chemical company Chemours filed a lawsuit last month against the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging the science behind the …

Perhaps you will remember Tanesha Hendley, the former schoolteacher who found herself in the throes of May 30, 2020, when provocateurs and angry protesters damaged the downtown Market House, an issue that polarized the Fayetteville community.

City Council scheduled to discuss Vote Yes initiative

The Fayetteville City Council on Monday night is expected to consider a resolution that would allow voters to decide whether to change the way council members are elected. The Vote Yes initiative …

In this week’s notebook: Fayetteville State University names two associate vice chancellors and Cumberland County Schools is seeking literacy tutors.

Backpack giveaway set for Monday

Students can get backpacks, school supplies and a hot meal during a drive-thru back-to-school event Monday. Balm in Gilead, in partnership with Cumberland County Schools and the Carolina Panthers, …

Fayetteville could join other cities that allow people to purchase alcoholic beverages from licensed businesses and then walk around within a designated area, in this case downtown. The Cool …

Community Concerts of Fayetteville has lined up legendary soul, country and disco music for its upcoming season of shows. The concerts will feature Earth, Wind & Fire; Alabama; Tracy Lawrence and Clay Walker; and “Direct From Sweden: The Music of Abba,” according to a news release from concert organizers.

Cumberland County Animal Services is waiving adoption fees for all shelter pets next week as part of the national “Clear the Shelters’’campaign. The fees will be waived starting …

You can’t exactly call it a financial windfall. But every dollar counts. Especially when you are overseeing the annual Fayetteville Dogwood Festival. And, not to mention the accompanying fall festival and those spring through summer Fayetteville After Five gatherings at Festival Park.

Detectives with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office are asking the public for help in finding a car that they say may have been used in a shooting early Tuesday. Deputies were dispatched …

More than 6,000 employees of Cumberland County Schools gathered at the Crown Arena Tuesday morning for a convocation to kick off the 2022-23 school year, according to a news release.

The federal commission responsible for recommending name changes for Department of Defense installations that commemorate the Confederacy estimates it will cost nearly $6.4 million to rename Fort Bragg.

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a phone scam. The callers claim to be members of the Sheriff’s Office or with “court services,’’ the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Whether a Fayetteville advocacy group’s petition to change the way City Council members are elected is valid is still up in the air after the Cumberland County Board of Elections on Tuesday …

Cumberland tax bills to be mailed Friday

Cumberland County property owners will soon be getting their tax bills in the mail. The Cumberland County Tax Administration office plans to mail tax bills to property owners on Friday. The …

SPRING LAKE — The town of Spring Lake announced Lt. Dysoaneik Spellman as the next police chief after a two-month search. The decision was effective Monday. Spellman was appointed interim …

When you are in Paul Beard’s line of work, you come to meet a plethora of people from athletes to entertainment legends. Beard has served as assistant manager and manager for the Crown Complex in Fayetteville  and today is general manager of the Florence Center in Florence, South Carolina. He’s been doing some thinking of late.

One driver was killed and another was injured in a head-on collision Tuesday night near the intersection of Braddy Road and Stoney Point Road, the Fayetteville Police Department said. Officers …

The “guiding principles’’ that are to be followed by those whose job it is to build a proposed Crown Event Center cleared another step Tuesday toward being fully incorporated into …

A Fayetteville man was arrested on drug charges after narcotics agents searched a Fayetteville home Tuesday morning and found cocaine and marijuana, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office …

City Manager Doug Hewett has announced the promotion of two people onto his leadership team: Kelly Olivera has been named interim assistant city manager and Jodi Phelps has been appointed chief of …

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners on Monday accepted the county health director’s recommendation on how to spend the first installment of opioid lawsuit settlement money.

HOPE MILLS — The Hope Mills Board of Commissioners held a special work session Monday night to discuss the development of an overlay zoning district that will help guide development in the …

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