Following an ongoing investigation by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the deceased individual discovered on July 16, 2025, in a wooded area behind the Food Lion on Stanford Road in ...

The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on July 21 to change the time of its mid-monthly meeting after pulling the item from the consent agenda for individual discussion ...

HENDERSONVILLE—After Talon Dalton flied out to center field to close out Asheville’s 11-5 win over Cherryville Friday night, July 18, the strains of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” started playing ...

On July16,2025, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office was asked to assist the Lincolnton Police Department in the search for a missing person. 53-year-old Robert Wolf Jr. was last seen on ...

Even with lively discussion both for and against and questioning comments from Mayor H. L. Beam, Cherryville City Council ...

If I didn’t believe public-policy research mattered, I wouldn’t have spent so much of my career commissioning and funding it.

North Carolinians are rightfully proud that our state has the loftiest peak in America, east of the Rockies. Mt. Mitchell, towering at 6,684 feet, claims the honor in Yancey County.

Are today’s elected leaders incapable of addressing public problems in a serious, respectful, bipartisan manner? If your answer is yes, I’ll concede that you have a strong case.

Even bigger nights were coming for the casino in the 1950s. “Satchmo” and his 16-piece orchestra wowed the Nags Head crowd with an appearance for Wescott on July 12, 1958. More than 1,500 people ...

In the middle of a dark September night in 1711 in Carolina, John Lawson found himself captive, tied up and flung in the center of the council ring of the ...

On Thursday, July 17, at approximately 2:15 a.m., the NC State Highway Patrol responded to and investigated a fatal collision in Catawba County on Boggs Road near Hunsucker ...