Detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department are investigating a sexual assault that was reported early Sunday on Shaw Road. Officers responded to the call on the 1400 block of Shaw Road around 1:45 a.m. The preliminary investigation indicates the victim was randomly identified and assaulted by a man who forced his way into her home, police said in a release. 

Now the mayor and some City Council members want to be in the entertainment business. That’s just what Mayor Mitch Colvin, Shakeyla Ingram, Larry Wright and Courtney Banks-McLaughlin were saying Monday night at a council work session.  

A loose coalition of community leaders has formed in hopes of bringing millions of dollars to Cumberland County to increase the number of sexual assault nurse examiners in the region.

The Fayetteville City Council on Monday will hold a public hearing on the 2022-23 budget recommended by the city manager. The proposed budget would spend $248.25 million in all and not change the property tax rate of 49.95 cents per $100 of valuation.

Electronics repair shop opens in Fayetteville Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions, an electronics repair shop, has opened in Fayetteville at 4225 A Ramsey St. The store offers professional …

Advocates of the N.C. Civil War & Reconstruction History Center plan to appear before the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners in August to ask for the $7.5 million the county previously agreed to provide for the project. 

The Cape Fear Valley Health Pavilion North Express Care will reopen Monday on a three-day schedule. The Express Care, which is at 6387 Ramsey St., closed in October 2021 to focus on COVID-19 vaccinations and testing, the health system said in a release. It will be open to see patients on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

For people who need to be reminded that they control their own future, Westover High School senior Katie Royal’s story of tenacity will definitely help them remember.

Gasoline prices are over $4.50 per gallon, food costs at grocery stores and restaurants are up, and it’s safe to say our Cumberland County Board of Commissioners was prudent Monday in adopting …

Municipal employees would be paid a minimum of $15 an hour as a result of additions to the proposed 2022-23 budget approved by the Fayetteville City Council on Thursday night.

A truck driver and a toddler were killed Thursday morning in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 near Fayetteville, the N.C. Highway Patrol said. The crash, which happened just after 2 a.m. near …

One person died and three others were critically injured in a vehicle crash on Gillis Hill Road Wednesday afternoon, the Fayetteville Police Department said. Officers responded to the crash, which involved three vehicles, around 3:45 p.m.

Since the age of 3, intense curiosity has fueled Kaitlyn Zuravel’s desire to find out how things work. Ginger Zuravel, the mother of the Terry Sanford High School senior, fondly recalls her …

Water rates will increase next year for customers of the Fayetteville Public Works Commission after the board unanimously approved the utility’s budget for fiscal year 2022-23. The cost of electricity will not change.

Fayetteville is moving forward with plans to spend more than $20 million on bridge upgrades and other projects to address stormwater threats.

The Fayetteville City Council is scheduled to hold its third and possibly final budget work session on Thursday afternoon at City Hall. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m.

Detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department seized guns, drugs and other items when they executed a “high-risk search warrant’’ June 1 on Spokane Road where a man shot at officers.

JROTC's mission is “to motivate young people to be better citizens.” No one lives up to this mission better than Trinity Ashworth, the battalion commander for the JROTC program at South View High School.

Greater Fayetteville Chamber leaders were full of excitement and enthusiasm just more than 12 months ago in announcing Shari Fiveash would be the new president and chief executive officer of the organization. So was Fiveash.

The executive director of the Fayetteville Dogwood Festival faced questions about her organization’s commitment to diversity as she asked the City Council for financial support.

A Georgia man was killed Wednesday when the motorcycle he was driving ran off the road and crashed into a tree, according to the Fayetteville Police Department.

Academically gifted, determined, ambitious. That’s how most teachers at Seventy-First High School would describe Adejuwon Balogun, who with his family moved to Fayetteville from Nigeria.

The Fayetteville City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to move forward with implementing a revised affordable-housing policy, including bringing back an incentive program and developing a housing trust fund.

Developers will not have to deal with temporary restrictions on lot size and setbacks after a vote by the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners on Monday morning. A motion to establish a 90-day moratorium for zero lot-line development failed to get a majority vote.

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners on Monday night passed the fiscal 2023 budget.   The budget passed on a 4-2 vote. Voting in favor were Commissioners Larry Lancaster, Toni …