The improv comedy group Walk-In Bathtub returns to the New Bern Civic Theatre (NBCT) stage this Saturday, Oct. 8, to host a MumFest After Party. As MumFest’s downtown street performances start to wind down, NBCT will open its doors for an After […]

Habitat for Humanity of Craven County invites women to get involved during Women Build Week November 1- 5, 2022. More than 18,000 women volunteers unite nationwide to build up their communities with Habitat homeowners. Habitat for Humanity of Craven County is engaging […]

The meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, at 6 p.m. in the Craven County Commissioners Meeting Room at the Craven County Administration Building in New Bern. If you want to petition the board, you’ll need to sign up between […]

New Bern Now (NBN) is excited to announce that we will be printing a local newspaper to serve New Bern, NC and surrounding areas. NBN was founded in 2009 and our mission remains the same — to inform our community. We connect […]

The Anonymous Trust trustees have generously awarded the Tryon Palace Foundation with a generous charitable grant of $170,000 for their Palace Scholars program and for a new educational outreach program. Additionally, the Anonymous Trust has approved two challenge grants that have the potential […]

The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund (AACHAF), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announced its award of $50,000 to the New Bern Preservation Foundation for the Preservation of King Solomon’s Lodge, North Carolina’s oldest African American Masonic Lodge. […]

The City of New Bern has partnered with CivicReady to implement a mass notification and emergency messaging solution called “New Bern Alerts.” This platform is free to subscribers and is available as a mobile app for Android and iOS users called “myAlerts.” […]