By Gordon Anderson | gordon@rantnc.com A group of citizens who have been speaking for months against a rumored proposal to place a data center in Lee County – and a natural gas mining operation to ...

The Sanford Spinners’ sixth season will begin this summer in a new home and under new leadership. The Spinners announced in early March that Tom Andor has been named the team’s general ...

Staff members from Lee County Library’s main location at Hawkins Avenue provided a tour of the new facility on Bragg Street ...

Charles Taylor, Brad Knott, Paul Barringer, Jim Burgin and Tanya White Anderson all won primary races Tuesday night and will advance to the general election in November.

After multiple weeks of early voting, a number of primary races affecting Lee County will be decided on Tuesday. Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voters can find their polling place by ...

The Greensboro Coliseum was loud, but for a moment Southern Lee High junior wrestler Nevaeh Williamson heard almost nothing.  Waiting around all ...

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Lee County Sheriff’s deputies made an arrest Tuesday night in the shooting death of Calvin Richard Lester Jr. at Fat Junior’s Grill Tuesday morning. Ar’mon Mandrell Jones of Fayetteville was taken ...

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.

Thousands of new homes, cheaper existing real estate and regular new job announcements have the experts projecting huge population growth in Sanford/Lee County over the next 10-30 years. The question ...