Craven County Board of Elections is working with the county’s GIS Department to create a new interactive polling site map for the upcoming election. Deputy Director of Elections Greg Carroll told Craven County Board of Commissioners — Tim Mason (District 1), Jason […]

Is it possible for two aldermen and a mayor to outvote New Bern’s six-member Board of Aldermen? After two elected officials — who live in Ward 6 — and the Ward 3 alderman voted to appoint former Alderman Jameesha Harris to the […]

The New Bern Board of Aldermen and mayor voted on a motion to raise the city manager’s salary on Tuesday night. City Manager Foster Hughes’s salary was raised to $208,000 after New Bern’s city council, known locally as the board of aldermen […]

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon attended an American First Speaker Series event in New Bern, NC on July 14, 2026. A c-span.org video shows Secretary McMahon and Laurie Buckout, a congressional candidate, fielding questions from reporters at Baker’s Kitchen. Someone asked […]

Requests and petition of citizens, Fiber optic installation, sale of city owned property, development, and more on aldermen meeting agenda. The New Bern Board of Aldermen will receive public input and an update on the fiber installation in the downtown area; consider […]

City of New Bern Planning and Zoning Board to review rezoning requests and make recommendations to the city council. The Planning and Zoning Board will review four requests to rezoning property on July 16, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. in the second-floor courtroom […]

City to consider closing streets in Ward 2 to accommodate drainage improvements. City of New Bern aldermen to consider adopting an ordinance to closing portions of Biddle Street, F Street, Fowlers Lane and K Street during their meeting on July 14, 2026, […]