Bell Fork News Today

In honor of Black History Month, one Onslow County schools fourth grade students put on a unique event for the community, which took place Monday morning in Jacksonville.

Impacts from Tropical Storm Idalia are being seen throughout Onslow County Thursday morning.

Two local organizations are working to make sure the future of Onslow County children is bright.

A local sorority donated nearly 1,500 snacks to an Onslow County elementary school last week in an effort to help end child hunger.

The Onslow County District Attorneys Office has determined that the November shooting death of a 17-year-old boy by a Jacksonville detective was justified.

Throughout 2022, the announcements of new businesses and projects coming to Jacksonville sent waves through Onslow County.

The Jacksonville Treatment Center has moved to Huff Drive. Parents are concerned about the proximity to their children.

In reflecting on his success in the furniture trade in Eastern North Carolina, Travis Rose once compared himself to a bee that discovered it could fly despite its paper-thin wings. “I wanted to fly, but I didnt know I could,” he told a Daily News reporter for a story on his companys 50th anniversary in 2003. "I guess I finally got my wings." Rose went from a young furniture salesman right out of the Navy to become the patriarch of Rose Brothers Furniture, a Jacksonville-based retail giant w...

February 2, 2021 Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday signed 30-year leases for new prisons to be constructed near Atmore and in Elmore County. The two new men’s correctional facilities wilk be constructed by CoreCivic’s Developer Team. The state signed a lease agreement with Government Real Estate Solutions of South Alabama, LLC, a CoreCivic entity, for the Escambia County facility on Bell Fork near Atmore. The agreements are not subject to annual renegotiation; however, options to negotiate oc...