Alex Rivera, fire chief of MCB Camp Lejeune Fire and Emergency Services, speaks during the recent award presentation for Marine Corps Fire Department of the Year.

The Lowe’s Foundation announced a new partnership with Hiring Our Heroes on Aug. 14 with the awarding of $500,000 to start a Skilled Trades Academy in Jacksonville.

Like they’ve done in recent years, the Jacksonville and Croatan boys’ soccer teams clashed Tuesday night in an intense, back-and-forth match, action appropriate for state championship programs.

That is what’s in store Friday night in week one of area high school football action.

The 16th annual Montford Point Marine Observance is set to happen Friday morning at Lejeune Memorial Gardens.

Here are the area’s top high school sports performers for Aug. 18. Top performers are based off the results sent in by the coaches.

Photos of the Northside High volleyball team as the Monarchs hosted Pender in a nonconference match on Monday. The Monarchs ...

Hurricane Erin has been downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane but is gaining in size and raising the risk of life-threatening ...

Three Republican-led states are deploying hundreds of members of their National Guard to Washington to assist in the Trump ...

Tensions were high at the Aug. 12 Holly Ridge Town Council meeting as residents and council members struggled to find common ground on the consideration of a proposed annexation.

A Jacksonville man was charged in a head-on collision that killed a Richlands man Friday afternoon on Gum Branch Road.