City considers charging commercial vessels a fee to use city-owned waterfront docks to load and unload in New Bern. The New Bern Board of Aldermen approved changes to the city’s ordinance during meeting on May 13, 2026 at City Hall in New […]

City council will take on 44 agenda items at City Hall tonight. The New Bern Board of Aldermen will meet on May 12, 2026, at 6 p.m. in City Hall, 300 Pollock St., New Bern, NC. Here’s what’s on the agenda: Requests […]

Board of Aldermen approve funding for a feasibility study for developers, election bill, termination of a sewer easement at the Craven County Industrial Park, CLG grant application, a request to use $50,000 of MSD Funds as a grant match, request to begin […]

City of New Bern will begin work on a crosswalk improvement project beginning on May 11, 2026, in downtown, according to a press release. The intersections of Hancock and Pollock, Craven and Pollock, and Middle and S. Front streets in New Bern, […]

City Manager says New Bern intends to withdraw membership from the Eastern Carolina Council of Governments. It sounded like City Manager Foster Hughes told the New Bern Board of Aldermen on May 5, 2026, that the Eastern Carolina Council of Governments membership […]

Eastern Carolina Council Interim Executive Director David Rosado today issued a statement in response to a request for comment on the Craven County commissioners’ decision to withdraw membership. The Craven County Board of Commissioners voted on April 20, 2026, to withdraw membership […]

The Craven County commissioners approved the purchase of 76 acres of land to prepare and sell it to a future owner, voted to withdraw membership from the Eastern Carolina Council of Government, accepted a federal grant for a new air traffic control […]