The N.C. Department of Public Transportation plans to make Second Street in downtown Lumberton safer for pedestrians.

The Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy, which was at risk of closure four years ago, is now seen as a model for success.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act shifts a greater share of the food program’s administrative costs to North Carolina and the state's counties.

St. Andrews was acquired by Webber International University in 2011. (Julia Wall for The Assembly) The nonprofit organization that owns most of the land once belonging to St. Andrews University, which ...

The detention centers in Scotland and Richmond counties are overcrowded. A new facility would serve both counties.

Dr. Ahmed Ahmed is a third-year internal medicine resident at UNC Health Southeastern in Lumberton. (Les High for Border Belt Independent) When Dr. Ahmed Ahmed clocks out after a 12-hour hospital ...

More voters turned out for Tuesday’s primary in Columbus and Scotland counties than in 2022. But Bladen and Robeson counties saw decreases.

This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project. In February and early March, a Johnston County Superior Court judge held an evidentiary hearing related to a claim filed by Hasson ...

Ed Goodwin quickly took a liking to Leon Locklear when the two men met more than a decade ago. It might have seemed an unlikely friendship: Goodwin, a Chowan County native, was an up-and-coming ...

The Border Belt Independent is proud to announce Heidi Perez-Moreno has joined the staff as a full-time reporter. Perez-Moreno is a graduate of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. As a ...

A Confederate monument stands in front of the Robeson County Courthouse in Lumberton. Watch this documentary that accompanies our story about racial tensions in Robeson County. Tyrone Watson ducked as ...