A North Carolina “boomtown” now ranks as the safest place to live in the state. The Raleigh suburb of Apex is No. 1 on a list of small cities boasting lower crime rates and crime-related costs, ...

One of North Carolina’s most picturesque roads has officially etched its name in history. The Blue Ridge Parkway, a route in ...

Red-cockaded woodpecker numbers plummeted largely due to habitat loss. But decades of collaborative conservation efforts have ...

According to AAA, more than 3.5 million North Carolinians are anticipated to travel over the year-end holidays between ...

USA Today readers voted a North Carolina New Year’s Eve celebration among the best in the country.

North Carolina State Highway Patrol said a tree fell on a pickup truck around 10:10 a.m., killing the driver. Forecasters are ...

A recap of events, openings and closings in Asheville's restaurant and brewery community at the end of 2024 and following ...

If you’re already looking forward to a vacation next year, you are not alone, and that means you need to think about your ...

Health care costs, medical debt, Hurricane Helene, Medicare Advantage, a proposed masking ban and abortion care were some of the top stories.

A massive storm will spread snow and ice along a 1,500-mile-long zone from vast portions of the Plains and Mississippi Valley to many areas of the Appalachians and the Atlantic coast from this weekend ...

Daunted by spotty record keeping and Black enslavement, a retiree traveled South in search of her family history ...