A former Triad resident was one of several people along the North and South Carolina coasts on Saturday to witness a fighter jet shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the U.S. for days.
A Chinese surveillance balloon was likely to fly over parts of North Carolina on Saturday evening, according to a trajectory map by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office will hold a community forum at 6 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Walkertown Branch Library at 2969 Main St. in Walkertown, the sheriff's office said.
William Penn became Winston-Salem’s newest police chief on Monday in part because city leaders believe he is best positioned to help the city attract and retain top-quality police officers, City Manager Lee Garrity said.
The four finalists for Winston-Salem’s next police chief stressed their experience and their plans Wednesday night to reduce local crime, especially gun violence, and to fill the vacancies among sworn officers on the police force.
Rural Hall named an interim town manager on Friday, just two days after former Town Manager Misty Meadows abruptly resigned.
The City of Winston-Salem will announce on Friday its four finalists for the police chief’s job, a city official said Thursday night.
Rural Hall Town Manager Misty Meadows resigned Wednesday night after the town council held a five-hour closed-door session.
Northwest Ward Council Member Jeff MacIntosh will not seek a fourth term on the Winston-Salem City Council when his current term is up in 2024.
Annie Brown Kennedy, the first Black woman to serve in the N.C. General Assembly and a prominent local attorney, died Tuesday of natural causes at her Winston-Salem home, a family member said. Kennedy was 98.
Too many people are silent and need to shine their light into the world to fight injustice, Denise Hartsfield, a retired district court judge for Forsyth County, told about 400 people gathered Monday at Union Baptist Church for the 43rd Noon Hour Commemoration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Winston-Salem residents will get the chance to hear finalists for the job of city police chief field questions about the approach they would take to the job during a Jan. 25 forum.
Lexington City Manager Terra Greene announced Monday that she is retiring, according to a news release.
The Forsyth Humane Society is not budging from the $1.5 million it requested to keep running the county animal shelter, making it increasingly likely that Forsyth County will take over shelter operations on April 1.
A Winston-Salem won $200,000 in the N.C. education lottery, the organization says in a news release.
Assistant Police Chief Michael Cardwell has been appointed as the interim chief of the Winston-Salem Police Department, the city said Friday.
Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr. will hold a community forum at 6 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Lewisville branch library in Lewisville, the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
Five Forsyth County groups will receive a combined $7.86 million in funding from the bipartisan omnibus bill that funds the federal government through fiscal year 2023, which ends Sept. 30, 2023.
State election officials said Wednesday that certificates of election can be issued Thursday morning with the expiration of a deadline for a group of Forsyth County election protesters to obtain a stay from Wake County Superior Court on their claims.
A poll worker told multiple voters on Election Day that a candidate had died, meaning Surry County will have to hold a new election in March for the Town of Dobson Board of Commissioners.
Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week.
The N.C. Supreme Court ruled Friday in Winston-Salem’s favor in a lawsuit brought against the city by the United Daughters of the Confederacy over the removal of the confederate statue that stood on the property of the old county courthouse until it was removed on March 12, 2019.
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Forsyth County commissioners have told the Forsyth Humane Society that the county board is willing to pay the group $1.2 million annually to run the county animal shelter, but no more than that.
Two years ago, Police Chief Catrina Thompson received praise for her handling of the protests in Winston-Salem following the death of George Floyd.
State elections director Karen Brinson Bell has turned down an appeal that some Forsyth County Republicans filed after the county elections board dismissed their protest over how ballot tabulators were shut down at the close of voting here on Nov. 8.
A group of Winston-Salem residents is demanding city officials provide more opportunities for community participation in the search for a new Winston-Salem police chief.
With accolades for the job Dave Plyler has done leading the board, the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners by acclamation picked Republican Vice Chairman Don Martin to move into the chairman’s slot on Monday, with veteran Commissioner Gloria Whisenhunt named vice chairwoman by acclamation …
Vacancies among the detention officers working at the Forsyth County Jail are not endangering public safety, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office says.
An election protest that has been appealed to the N.C. State Board of Elections will stop election winners such as the sheriff, county commissioners and school board members from taking their oaths of office in early December, but won’t leave any offices vacant.
On a 3-2 vote, the Forsyth County Board of Elections on Wednesday dismissed a protest of the 2022 midterm election that was filed by a group of local Republicans after election officials made an error that affected the way voting tabulators were shut down on Nov. 8.