RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a longtime activist and fundraiser in North Carolina and national Democratic politics who served in the 1990s as the U.S. ambassador to several Caribbean ...

Raleigh has been riding a population boom for years, and along with that is a construction craze that's among the most active ...

Standing near the top of a 4,000-foot ridge above Chambers Cove, geologist Jennifer Bauer turns away from the 30-degree slope we're climbing and looks out over the valley peeking through the trees ...

A North Carolina trial judge has upheld decisions by election officials to reject protests by the trailing candidate in a ...

In any other year, a county government Facebook post like this wouldn’t get a second look. “Reminder: Today is the Final Day to Pay Property Taxes!” Buncombe County posted a few weeks ago. But with ...

Henderson County stands to take a $40-million-dollar hit from Helene as its applications for help covering storm-related expenses and lost revenue are being considered.

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is developing a plan for this year’s Public Mountain Trout Waters stocking ...

LEE COUNTY SCHOOLS’ CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES SAY THEIR CURRENT PAY AND THE COUNTY’S PROPOSED RAISE IS A ‘SLAP IN THE FACE,’ CONSIDERING THEIR SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOCAL EDUCATION By Gordon ...

It’s House Bill 20, the Fair Maps Act. It would amend the North Carolina Constitution to require that legislative and ...

Rep. Erin Paré, a Holly Springs Republican who was recently appointed a chair of the House Appropriations Committee, filed this bill to allow for a state income tax deduction for gambling losses.

What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a ...