The Daily Advance

07/20/2025

An Elizabeth City Police Officer is on paid administrative leave after firing his weapon and striking an armed man shortly before 1 p.m. on Sunday, according to the police department.

An Elizabeth City Police Officer is on paid administrative leave after firing his weapon and striking a suspect shortly before 1 p.m. on Sunday, according to the police department.

07/20/2025

Residents who have attended a River City Skippers baseball game this summer have likely heard the voice of Preston Mullins.

07/19/2025

RALEIGH — A Raleigh man has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl throughout eastern North Carolina. Part of the investigation involved special agents with the Department of Homeland Security conducting s…

RALEIGH — A Raleigh man has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl throughout eastern North Carolina. Part of the investigation involved special agents

07/18/2025

Motocross racer John Winslow Jr., 53, knows how it feels to cross the finish line as the winner.

07/18/2025

EDENTON — Sawyer’s Designs, a floral and gift shop formerly located across from the John A. Holmes High School construction site, has moved to a new, expanded showroom with a brand-new garden center about two miles north of town.

EDENTON — Sawyer’s Designs, a floral and gift shop formerly located across from the John A. Holmes High School construction site, has moved to a new, expanded showroom with a

07/18/2025

Paul Vincent was teaching kindergarten in Greensboro when he got a call from Museum of the Albemarle curator Wanda Lassiter.

07/18/2025

The city has awarded a Virginia-based engineering firm a contract to conduct $2 million in road and sidewalk improvements on Halstead Boulevard and Weeksville Road.

07/18/2025

Elizabeth City State University band students are expressing their appreciation after new Chancellor S. Keith Hargrove agreed to reinstate Bracy Martin Jr. as interim director of the ECSU Sound of Class Marching Band.

Elizabeth City State University band students are expressing their appreciation after new Chancellor S. Keith Hargrove agreed to reinstate Bracy Martin Jr. as interim director of the ECSU Sound of

07/18/2025

Art of the Albemarle will receive $4,000 from the city to help host its annual Splash Week this summer.

07/18/2025

About 150 children from around the region will attend swimming lessons this summer at the Albemarle Family YMCA in Elizabeth City.

07/17/2025

This week’s column will move pretty quick so buckle up. We’ve got several topics to cover.

07/17/2025

A teenager was shot and killed Tuesday evening on the grounds of Windsor Elementary School.