(Photo: Johnston County's Heritage ... and others," said Smithfield Town Councilman Marlon Lee. Bennett Chapman spearheaded the effort to establish a North Carolina Civil Rights Trail marker ...

As part of the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) effort to improve transportation infrastructure and safety, several roadways in Johnston County, including those in the Town of ...

An affordable housing complex in a small town in Johnston County sold for more than $3 million. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Vesta Enterprises purchased Oaks Apartments in Four Oaks for $3.4 million.

Percy Flowers’ colorful life as a liquor outlaw gets detailed in a new book “Master Distiller,” free on Kindle Unlimited ...

A Johnston County judge ruled Friday that race was “a significant factor” in the jury selection and sentencing of Hasson Bacote, a Black man who was sentenced to death in 2009 and who was ...

The Johnston County Board of Education is another step closer to filling a vacancy on the board. The seat was vacated when Ronald Johnson was convicted Friday of extortion and other crimes.

A 22-year-old woman was hit and killed in a crash Friday night on Interstate 95 in Johnston County. The North Carolina Highway Patrol said that a family had pulled over on the northbound side of I-95.

According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol ... They arrived at the scene with the Kenly Fire Department and Johnston County EMS. Contreras was pronounced dead at the scene.

President Donald Trump’s pardons this week include one for a self-proclaimed “white nationalist” from North Carolina who ... he told the Observer. In Johnston County, Beddingfield was ...

The Johnston County Heritage Center has received a grant from North Carolina Humanities. This $20,000 grant is helping Heritage Center staff and teachers to provide more local history ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (WNCN) — After a quick meeting early Thursday morning, the school board for Johnston County voted Jeff Sullivan to fill their District 7 vacancy, according to officials. The Johnston ...