Congressman Richard Hudson was unavailable when about 50 constituents visited his Southern Pines office on April 24.

When your news staff here at The Pilot began talking at the end of last year about goals for 2025, more in-depth reporting was on everyone’s list.

The battle has begun. Both The Pilot and Tom McInnis favor short-term rentals in our residential neighborhoods. The people who live in the Sandhills favor long-term residents.

In rural communities, like the many we have here in North Carolina, local public schools are often community hubs, serving as places of learning as well as connection and growth.

In a perfect world, Moore County would be deep in the weeds planning a large new high school that would also house an application-only specialized track for students learning next-generation ...

When my colleagues and I call ourselves Freedom Conservatives, it’s a pretty good tell that we believe freedom is essential to human flourishing — and that we place a high ...