ELIZABETHTOWN — Only the canvass awaits Monday morning. The Bladen County Board of Elections met Friday and finished decision-making on absentee-by-mail votes and provisionals from Tuesday’s special election for the 9th District. None of the [...]

KELLY — For a week, Bladen County braced for Hurricane Florence. One year ago on the morning of Sept. 14, she roared ashore as a Category 1 storm near Wrightsville Beach, about 60 miles away. [...]

ELIZABETHTOWN — A Raleigh public charter school has applied to open a location in Bladen County also serving neighboring Brunswick and New Hanover counties. Torchlight Academy Schools, led by board chairman Tyrone Tucker, is seeking [...]

WHITE LAKE — Berry farmers are not doing damage, and aquifers won’t be the answer to bringing more water. At a meeting Thursday for planning management of White Lake, those were the opinions of Jim [...]