Randolph County News

While parts of the area have been dry all day, the ones who got rain... REALLY got rain! The southern part of the viewing area has been the hardest hit.

Providence Grove High School is nearing completion for Randolph County Schools to begin the moving-in process in preparation for its Aug.

Pottery lovers are torn between two factions that have surfaced in an area famed for quality of life, environmental beauty and appreciation of history and the arts.

The Randolph County Board of Commissioners voted Monday night to raise the county's tax rate by 2 cents.

An alligator found by along a road near Asheboro will soon have a new home in Florida.

The Randolph County Vice and Narcotics Unit has found and confiscated marijuana plants in a wooded area off Old Highway 49 just outside of Asheboro.

Food vendors seeking to temporarily open up shop in Randolph County soon will have to pay a fee to do so.

Thank you! Many of you gave the gift of life and hope Friday. Gospel Baptist Church in Archdale held a bone marrow, stem cell and blood drive Friday afternoon.

Randolph County officials say they will close four more recycling sites because of misuse.

Rising fuel costs are driving several fire departments in Randolph County to make pleas for an increase in fire tax district rates.

Until a few weeks ago, the 1978 death of Larry Ford was just one more cold case in the Triad.

Five of 14 county department heads asked for adjustments to their 2008-09 budgets as Randolph County commissioners continued to try to find ways to stretch revenues as far as possible Monday.

A car collided head on with a tractor trailer this afternoon in eastern Randolph County, requiring the driver to be air lifted to the hospital.

A treatment plant could be ready to pump the first drinking water from Randleman Reservoir by late 2010, now that the new lake's governing board has acted on its last major phase.

The temperature outside isn't the only thing heating up. Asheboro city officials will make a controversial decision Thursday night.

Randolph County Finance Director Will Massie has one guarantee about the 2008-09 budget.

The role a building played in furniture manufacturing in the Triad is over. The lessons people are taking away from it include how it can now help in education.

Randolph Community College will buy a building on Industrial Park Avenue in Asheboro rather than build a new facility to house classes.

A North Carolina pastor was busted in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart for solicitation.

How often does someone stumble across a talent they didn't know existed? Well for Frank Ray, he discovered a passion he didn't realize he had 10 years ago after seeing information in a newspaper about a pottery ...