Business

Rowan County Chamber of Commerce postpones gala to March due to COVID-19

SALISBURY — The Rowan Chamber of Commerce has postponed its 96th Annual Gala Meeting planned for Thursday at ...

Coronavirus

Novant Health testing site reopens as Rowan County COVID-19 cases hit new pandemic high

SALISBURY — With new COVID-19 cases rising and tests in high demand, Novant Health says it will reopen ...

Ask Us

Ask Us: Readers ask about former Tilley Harley-Davidson site, gain-of-function research, I-85

Editor’s note: Ask Us is a weekly feature published online Mondays and in print on Tuesdays. We’ll seek to ...

Coronavirus

Rowan County COVID-19 cases approaching new pandemic peak

SALISBURY — With omicron spreading more quickly than previous COVID-19 variants, daily case totals in Rowan County are ...

Education

Catawba College says nearly all students, staff vaccinated in time for classes to begin

SALISBURY – Catawba College will begin this semester with an almost entirely vaccinated campus when classes start on ...

Local

Salisbury Post names top 10 stories of 2021

COVID-19 vaccinations became widely available last year, with health workers as some of the first local recipients. The ...

Coronavirus

Rowan County reaches 500 COVID-19 deaths since start of pandemic, seventh highest in state

SALISBURY — State data show 500 Rowan County residents have died since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

News

Cooper urges boosters, plans worker mandate extension

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH (AP) — With COVID-19-related hospitalizations surging amid the spread of the ...

Coronavirus

State data show 310 deaths from COVID-19 in 2021

SALISBURY — COVID-19 resulted in the deaths of at least 310 Rowan County residents in 2021. The COVID-19 ...

State News

Virus cases hit another daily NC high; colleges rescheduling

RALEIGH (AP) — Another record number of daily cases of COVID-19 in North Carolina was reported on Friday ...

Coronavirus

COVID-19 cases in NC hit record, continue rising in Rowan County

SALISBURY — As North Carolina saw its highest number of new COVID-19 positives reported, Rowan County also saw ...

Coronavirus

400 new COVID-19 cases reported in Rowan County since last week

SALISBURY — Rowan County added about 400 new COVID-19 positives from Thursday to Tuesday. Because of Christmas scheduling, ...

State News

NC State’s bowl game scrapped as virus issues hit UCLA before kickoff

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Holiday Bowl became the fifth postseason college football game to be canceled when ...

Nation/World

Shorter isolation rules set for health workers; 18 NC workers lose jobs over vaccine refusals

By Mike Stobbe AP Medical Writer NEW YORK  — Worried that a new COVID-19 wave could overwhelm understaffed ...

Coronavirus

COVID throws kink in plans of ACC teams

Associated Press The Miami Hurricanes’ plans to play in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 31 appear to be ...

Coronavirus

Fauci says omicron variant is `just raging around the world’

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The COVID-19 omicron variant is “just raging around the world,” the White House’s top ...

Nation/World

Appeals court allows Biden employer vaccine mandate to take effect

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe ...

Coronavirus

COVID prompts schedule shuffling: Tar Heels now face No. 21 Kentucky on Saturday

Associated Press No. 21 Kentucky will now face North Carolina on Saturday in the CBS Sports Classic in ...

Nation/World

CDC recommends Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 shots over J&J’s

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press Most Americans should be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines ...

Coronavirus

Rowan County COVID-19 deaths nearing 300 this year

SALISBURY — COVID-19 deaths in Rowan County are approaching 300 this year. Including four fatalities due to the ...

News

First omicron coronavirus variant case reported in NC

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Health officials reported North Carolina’s first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus on ...

Coronavirus

Fauci says early reports encouraging about omicron variant

By Gene Johnson Associated Press U.S. health officials said Sunday that while the omicron variant of the coronavirus ...

Nation/World

Contact tracing revs up with arrival of omicron variant in the US

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus ...

Nation/World

Omicron coronavirus variant turns up in multiple states

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The omicron variant of ...

Coronavirus

Local deaths from COVID-19 approach 300 this year as new variant concerns emerge

SALISBURY — With concerns rising about a new variant of COVID-19, local deaths tied to the virus are ...

Ask Us

Ask Us: How do I receive a replacement COVID-19 vaccine card?

Editor’s note: Ask Us is a weekly feature published online Mondays and in print on Tuesdays. We’ll seek ...

Coronavirus

More omicron cases pop up as world rushes to learn more

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in countries on ...

Nation/World

Newest COVID threat: omicron variant in southern Africa

By RAF CASERT and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press BRUSSELS — Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...

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