State labor officials say they are "sending a message" about unsafe working conditions after a Marshville chicken plant is fined more than $100,000 for labor violations.

State officials have fined a Union County poultry plant for more than $107,000 following an ammonia leak there last August.

A Union County Department of Social Services worker has been arrested on charges she embezzled nearly $3,000 from the food stamp program.

Country singer and North Carolina native Randy Travis was arrested in Texas Monday morning on suspicion of public intoxication outside a church.

For the first time since registering to vote in 1972, Marshville town council member Norma G. Carpenter is officially affiliated with the Republican Party.

Two Union County mayors joined 51 of their counterparts across the state Wednesday, Jan.

Union County Habitat for Humanity dedicated two more houses Saturday, Jan. 7, bringing the total in its latest project to 91.