Fayetteville NC

TAR HEEL, N.C. (WECT) - An employee died Saturday at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Bladen County, marking the second deadly incident at the facility in seven months. Smithfield Foods confirmed the death on Monday but has not released the employee’s name or the cause of death. A...

Officers wrote 192 tickets for school zone violations across Cumberland County last week. Two days of enforcement. Deputies, troopers, and officers from four police departments launched "Operation Safe Passage" to protect kids returning from winter break. Multiple agencies worked together on this effort. Drivers got...

PWC OFFICES TO CLOSE FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., DAY. Fayetteville, N.C.- The Fayetteville Public Works Commissions’ customer service center and administrative offices will be closed on Monday, January 19, 2026 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Regular utility business hours will resume on Tuesday,...

A Smithfield Foods employee was found dead at a facility in Bladen County over the weekend, the company said.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — The driver of a tractor-trailer died after running off the road in Cumberland County Monday afternoon, the North Carolina Highway Patrol said. According to NCDOT, the crash happened on River Road near Middle River Loop in Fayetteville just after 12:30 p.m. Due to the crash,...

Last year, the parade was postponed due to weather and moved to February.

SENECA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A Target store is coming to an Upstate community. The Target website showed that Seneca will be getting a Target store at 1810 Sandifer Boulevard. In April 2025, the Oconee Economic Alliance posted that the new Target store, along with other retailers and restaurants, will...

Fayetteville leaders voted Jan. 5 to continue a yearslong effort to build a Black Voices Museum downtown, even though a preliminary price tag is a bit of a doozy. Reggie Truxon, senior associate at architectural firm Gensler, told Fayetteville City Council members at the Jan. 5 work session that the firm's concept...

DUNN – A passenger died following a two-vehicle collision Sunday at a busy intersection in Dunn. Dunn Police said the collision involved a Ford F-250 traveling east on U.S. 421 and a Chevrolet Equinox traveling west. The driver of the Equinox was attempting to make a left turn into the Dunn Plaza Shopping Center when...

FORT BRAGG — A trial program that delivered groceries to home from military commissaries is available at all military commissaries in the U.S., an official said this month. Kevin Robinson, a spokesman for the Defense Commissary Agency, told The Fayetteville Observer on Jan. 6 that Fort Bragg’s South Commissary was...