Gaston News

Friday, July 18, 2008 Bids opened on first phase of NCCAR project Lance Martin/Herald Senior Staff Writer JACKSON - Bids were opened Thursday on the first phase of the N.C. Center for Automotive Research ...

It's been a busy month for the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office narcotics division.

Pitcher plants. Sundews. Venus' fly traps. Bladderworts. Predatory fungi. These are carnivorous plants - flowering plants that have evolved methods of capturing and digesting the bodies of insects as a source ...

Fifth-grade teacher Eileen Ball said she knows she can call on her principal at Kiser Intermediate School or someone in the superintendent's office if she ever has a problem.

Checking the mail can keep sex offenders out of jail, but some still let their registrations lapse.

Gaston County residents who have been enduring life along five unpaved roads should get some relief within the next year.

A man accused of criminal sexual conduct with a minor was arrested in Cleveland County after an 18-month-long manhunt by the Iredell County Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marshal's Service and the South Carolina ...

An international port terminal on the North Carolina coast means a wave of development that could send ripples to Gaston County.

Four young women with ties to Gaston County are in Raleigh this week competing in the Miss North Carolina and Miss North Carolina's Outstanding Teen Pageants.

There were once more than 200 drive-in movie theaters in North Carolina. That was back during the drive-in boom in the late 1940s and 1950s that saw the number of outdoor theaters in the U.S. grow from less ...

A Gaston County man will spend the next several decades in prison after a jury convicted him Wednesday on eight charges, including two counts of second-degree murder, in a fatal drunken driving case.

Homeowners on Lake Gaston can expect to pay more this summer to remove the dreaded tendrils that choke boat propellers, tangle swimmers and hinder wildlife.

Gaston County expects to receive almost $3.5 million this year from the N.C. Education Lottery for the benefit of school construction.

Support the sales tax increase? Mecklenburg County commissioners moved a step closer Wednesday night toward asking voters for a quarter-cent sales tax increase to fight crime.

Daniel Zane Carroll of Warrenton, N.C. and Ryan Spenser Pitchford of Norlina, N.C. on Monday entered guilty pleas to second-degree arson and other charges in relation to a fire that destroyed the Lake Gaston ...

Knowing when your child is ready to be left at home for extended periods of time is a tough call.

A Gaston County legislator has filed a bill that would reduce dollars going into mental health community support funding and give the funds to other health programs.

The search is on to find Miss Gastonia and Miss Gastonia's Outstanding Teen 2009.

Teens Changing Gaston County , youth philanthropy initiative funded by the Community Foundation of Gaston County and the Next Generation Fund, recently held a Grantee Celebration. via The Gaston Gazette

“We're the only state besides Florida in the Southeast United States that doesn't have it in their constitution that gay marriage is illegal”

A Gaston County state senator has once again introduced a proposed amendment to the N.C. Constitution that would ban same-sex marriages. via The Gaston Gazette