By Gordon Anderson | gordon@rantnc.com The Lee County Board of Commissioners will switch nearly half of its regularly scheduled meetings for 2026 into a work session format that doesn’t ...

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Lacy Jarman is a nursing student at CCCC’s Chatham Health Sciences Center. Jarman and her classmates will enter a nursing profession that could see a shortage of as many as 12,500 men and women in ...

Lee County Sheriff’s deputies made an arrest Tuesday night in the shooting death of Calvin Richard Lester Jr. at Fat Junior’s Grill Tuesday morning. Ar’mon Mandrell Jones of Fayetteville was taken ...

Thousands of new homes, cheaper existing real estate and regular new job announcements have the experts projecting huge population growth in Sanford/Lee County over the next 10-30 years. The question ...

In the last few years, Sanford, North Carolina has become a city of murals. Bright, beautiful and even innovative murals that have added a splash of life to downtown areas in Sanford and Jonesboro.

Before there was a United States, what is now North Carolina was home to indigenous tribes for thousands of years. Their stories, traditions and heartache have gone mostly untaught in our history ...