A major city based in central North Carolina will soon experience a mass wave of layoffs in response to an ongoing financial crisis.

The action is a direct response to the ongoing budget crisis and rising operational costs, according to the city.

The city of Rocky Mount has initiated layoffs for about 100 city employees, a little more than 10% of its full-time workforce ...

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WITN) - Rocky Mount announced today that it is struggling with a financial crisis due to overspending over the past two years. The city faces higher utility rates, reduced spending, ...

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WNCT) — Rocky Mount Mayor Sandy Roberson has addressed the city’s financial crisis in a Q&A video. According to the Mayor, the city has been spending millions of dollars more than ...

Nearly a million North Carolinians work as independent contractors or own their own businesses. They do so for a variety of ...

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WTVD) -- The council chambers inside Rocky Mount's city council were packed with Monday residents upset about the city's apparent accounting fiasco. Councilmembers Andre Knight, ...

Rocky Mount voters returned three councilmembers to their seats in a vote Tuesday despite weeks of reports of financial chaos in the city. An audit released last month showed that the city has been ...