Paint Hill Farm, an oasis of preserved longleaf pine forest in Southern Pines, has changed hands once more to its final ...

Cameron is the kind of small town where most everybody knows everybody. So if issues arise, the community turns out to ...

Southern Pines is dotted with parks, from the playground downtown to the hiking trails at Whitehall tract. As the town works ...

The House of Representatives passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” on May 22 with the backing of Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC). According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill ...

One Big, Beautiful Bill” — what malarkey. It’s just the same song, second verse, with a diva soloist crooning of spending inefficiency backed by a chorale of what John Maynard ...

Is anyone else in Moore County feeling exhausted trying to keep up with the damage Donald Trump is doing to our country?

On April 28, the Spanish power grid, heavily reliant on intermittent solar power, failed due to instabilities, causing a blackout over all of Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France.

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Many small-town independent newspapers have become extinct species in the information ecosystem. From 2005-2025, about one-third of all newspapers in the U.S. closed. Print media has been replaced by ...

Of the dozen books I’ve read so far this year, none has affected me nearly so deeply as a brand-new treasure written by Ron Chernow. It’s called simply “Mark Twain.” ...

Graduation on the Union Pines High School football field was such a muddy mess earlier this month, a number of seniors wore boots under their graduation robes to process through ...

The current “big beautiful” spending bill before the Senate is an utter disaster for the country. It will increase the national debt from the current $36 trillion, of which we ...