Category Archives: Local News

Meet Cleopatra! She is a 2 - 3-year-old female domestic shorthair cat. Cleopatra is black and white with distinguished facial markings and beautiful green eyes. She is sweet loving and very content. C...

There's a lot going on this month at the local historical museum.Jennifer Kuykendall, the Executive Director of the Wayne County Museum, appeared on Jeff Farrow's Morning Show on Goldsboro's Greatest ...

A local radio pioneer has passed away. George Beasley, founder of the Beasley Media Group, died Wednesday at the age of 89. Beasley bought his first radio station, WPYB-AM, in Benson, NC, in 1961. He ...

How quickly conditions can change when Mother Nature is involved.Last week at this time, Wayne County was listed in "Moderate Drought" and a burn ban was in place. Now the burn ban has been lifted by ...

The Goldsboro Police Department believes it has identified the deceased person that was found on Bright Street last week.The GPD on Wednesday said the person found dead on the 300 block of Bright Stre...

The Wayne County Fire Marshal has lifted the burn ban for Wayne County effective Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. The N.C. Forest Service is lifting its burn ban at the same time Wednesday.The bur...

Firefighters from El-Roy, New Hope and Arrington were sent to a structure fire in the 1000 block of Spring Bank Road on Wednesday afternoon. As firefighters arrived on the scene, they found an old bar...

Around lunchtime on Wednesday, La Paz Mexican Restaurant on Spence Avenue in Goldsboro received an unexpected guest. A car jumped the curb and crashed through the front window of the popular eatery. F...

As North Carolina continues to round the corner on the COVID-19 pandemic, the state is keeping up its efforts to get vaccine shots in arms.On Wednesday, Gov. Roy Cooper said incentives appear to be he...

- From the Office of House Majority Leader John Bell -On the first day of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the House Environment Committee gave unanimous approval to House Bill 500, "Disaster Relie...