Fayetteville Area News
- While the legal battle over last year’s N.C. Supreme Court election is now settled, it’s not the last unresolved election contest remaining in North Carolina. A legal dispute over the 2023 election for mayor of the Robeson County town of Pembroke is still dragging on.
- A Jan. 23, 2025 memo from President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Interior to fast-track federal recognition within 90 days.
- The state Senate ed the Republican-sponsored bill along party lines. Democrats will try to prevent it from becoming law.
- A state Senate committee voted Tuesday to eliminate a permit requirement for people who want to carry a concealed gun.
- The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is continuing Chemours’ search for groundwater contamination beyond the Lower Cape Fear.
- During a Board of Commissioners meeting this month in Dare County, the county’s assessor gave a presentation on this year’s revaluation for property taxes.
- The $144 million facility, scheduled to open in 2027, will replace the nearly 60-year-old Crown Coliseum with a three-story venue that can host concerts, conventions, and other large events.
- The North Carolina base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of a national effort under the Biden istration to remove names that honored Confederate leaders. The base’s original namesake, Gen. Braxton Bragg, was a Confederate general.
- General Marquis de Lafayette toured across North Carolina during his visit to America in the 1800s.
- Cape Fear Valley Medical Center aims to comfort dying patients through the international "No One Dies Alone" program.
- Robeson County consistently voted for Democratic presidential candidates until Donald Trump's first run. It's one of North Carolina's more purple counties.
- With a new school year around the corner, North Carolina families have been spending big to buy supplies for their own kids, and their classrooms too.