Rant correspondent The Mann Center’s rebrand is bearing fruit as one of its more ambitious projects to date – a “Women in Country” concert series featuring performers with a ...

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 ...

Hayley Redding teaches ELA and social studies at Western Harnett Middle School near the Barbecue community in Harnett County. The 2014 Campbell University graduate said she chose to teach in a rural ...

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 ...

Lee County sheriff’s deputies have charged a Lemon Springs man with murder in connection with the death of his partner. Randall Lee Stark, 66, of River Run Drive in Lee County faces one count of first ...

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 the ...