St. Andrews was acquired by Webber International University in 2011. (Julia Wall for The Assembly) The nonprofit organization that owns most of the land once belonging to St. Andrews University, which ...

Dr. Ahmed Ahmed is a third-year internal medicine resident at UNC Health Southeastern in Lumberton. (Les High for Border Belt Independent) When Dr. Ahmed Ahmed clocks out after a 12-hour hospital ...

Four Republicans and one Democrat want to replace Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey, a Republican who isn’t running for a fourth term. The Republicans—Jason L. Butler, Ronnie Ivey, David Monte, and ...

Students recite the Scout Law before a meeting at Chadbourn Elementary School. (Photo by Les High) Every Scouting America meeting at the Chadbourn Elementary after-school program begins like thousands ...

Kirkland Bass catches air for friends and family at the U.S. 701-U.S. 74-76 overpass in Whiteville Sunday. Photo by Les High A winter storm dumped up to 10 inches of snow and brought bitter cold ...

The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office conducted a final canvass in October of Dixon Drive, the scene of a mass shooting. (Photo by Morgan Casey) When gunshots rang out during a large Halloween gathering ...

A polling site in Columbus County in 2024. (Photo by Les High) Unaffiliated voters have surpassed Republicans and Democrats in the Border Belt. The number of registered unaffiliated voters grew by at ...

Robeson, Bladen, Columbus, and Scotland counties avoided the worst of Winter Storm Fern last weekend, but freezing temperatures continue to pose dangers. Three shelters in Robeson County opened ahead ...

Ammie McRae Jenkins, the first Black student to attend High Point University and an activist who dedicated much of her life to preserving land owned by Black families in the North Carolina Sandhills, ...

With measles cases reported in North Carolina, local families might wonder if their children are at risk of contracting the highly contagious disease. More than 46% of elementary schools in Robeson, ...