Interim City Manager Ed Wyatt presented a balanced, $14,272,016, budget for the upcoming fiscal year that includes no proposed tax increase and a 3 percent cost of living adjustment for city employees.

We were disturbed after getting off the phone with Captain James Avens of the Weldon Police Department Monday.

The message at Belmont Elementary School was clear Monday: Listen to the teachers and aim for college.

Judy B. Sanders, 57 of Jackson Street died Sunday, May 20, 2012 at Halifax Regional Medical Center.

Wesley Barrientos doesn’t mind sitting out the last leg of a cross-country bike tour after a crash injured his shoulder because it doesn’t change the message he and Jeremy Staat are sharing.

The Weldon Police Department and state Alcohol Law Enforcement have hit a critical snag in their efforts to have the Community House declared a nuisance.

An Enfield man was arrested today following service of search warrant on Highway 48.

A Weldon man has been charged in an early Sunday morning hit and run and chase which began in South Rosemary and ended when he crashed on Caroline Street in Weldon.

Verlie Rose Cullom 64, of Roanoke Rapids died Friday May 17, 2012.

Peggy Ann Mitchell Porch, 72, died Friday, May 18, 2012 in Halifax Regional Medical Center.