Mecklenburg County High School senior Amonta Farrar has been selected to the 2025 Region 4D Boys Basketball All-Region first team. Farrar led the Phoenix in scoring and as the season wound down became ...

South Boston Speedway’s Limited Sportsman division will launch its 2025 season Saturday, April 12 with the division’s longest and richest race of the season – the second annual Kenny Meadows Limited ...

The Mecklenburg County Board of Supervisors is poised to halt all future utility-scale solar development in the county even as the Virginia General Assembly weighs legislation that would curb the ...

Mecklenburg County High School’s Samantha Van der Weken became the first Phoenix wrestler, female or male, to earn a place on the VHSL wrestling champions podium after a third-place finish in the VHSL ...

The Mecklenburg County High School varsity girls basketball team continued to lay the framework for future successes, with Jordyn Maclin and Jaliyah Boswell recently being selected to All-Region 4D ...

A large brush fire just across the Mecklenburg/Lunenburg county line burned nearly 200 acres on Saturday and forced the evacuation of a half-dozen residences. No injuries were reported as a result of ...

Virginia State Police are investigating a single vehicle crash Sunday on Interstate 85 near the 27-mile marker. The initial call for the crash was received around 11:03 a.m. According to Virginia ...

After a Sun reader wrote in last week to take issue with State Senator Tammy Mulchi’s recent comments disparaging federal contractors for “piss-poor planning” amid Donald Trump’s assault on the ...

A Texas-based solar developer has brought three lawsuits against Mecklenburg County to compel action on the company’s request to build the Antlers Road Solar project, a 90-megawatt facility proposed ...

Robert Goodlow Floyd, 89 of White Plains, died Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 at Lawrenceville Health and Rehab.  He was an employee of the former Brodnax Mills.  A funeral was conducted Friday, Feb. 28 at ...

With heavy hearts we announce the unexpected passing of Tommy Mitchell Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025 at the age of 45. He was a proud and loving father, a devoted soulmate, and a man whose heart found its ...

LaVerne Jones Bernard, formerly of Oxford, N.C. died Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after courageously battling dementia and COPD for nearly three years. A funeral Mass was celebrated Friday, Feb. 28, at 2 p.