Google cut the pay of workers in some of its North Carolina offices. It's one of the places the firm is targeting for hiring a more diverse workforce.

South Carolina’s system for magistrate judges is unlike any state in the country, creating fertile ground for incompetence and corruption. Most aren’t lawyers, but their decisions can have lasting effects on the vulnerable people who come before them.

The case has it all: white-centrism, the "school choice" debate, and the obscene way in which North Carolina is failing its students.

Every May, the US Coast Guard and the Royal Navy hold a ceremony on a sliver of North Carolina land where four English World War Two soldiers are buried.

A North Carolina wildlife rescue came up with an ingenious way to mend cracked turtle shells.

Carol Folt said she planned to resign after approving the removal of the Confederate monument.

North Carolina's controversial legislation is impacting Hollywood's decision to film in the state. Netflix has opted to film its upcoming North Carolina-set series OBX, a coming-of-age drama set in a fictional town in North Carolina's Outer Banks, in South Carolina instead due to remnants of North Carolina's anti-LGBTQ House Bill 2. Best known as "the bathroom bill," the law requires transgender people use the public restrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificate. The legislation first drew criticism when it was enacted in 2016, with some studios even pulling their projects out of the state.

The Carolina coast has a seldom seen breed of squirrel that is 2 feet tall and weighs as much as a chihuahua. A state camera trap program is capturing images of these fox squirrels in remote areas. By Mark Price.

A missing 13-year-old girl from North Carolina has been found alive in Oklahoma, authorities say. Aubrey Acree, who was reported missing on Monday, was found safe more than 900 miles away in Checotah, Oklahoma on Wednesday after an alleged abduction. Police arrested 23-year-old Jacob Gardea, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, after finding Acree, according to a statement from the FBI and Rutherford County sheriff’s department.

We may not punch ballots on Election Day anymore, but for one 78-year-old man, he was punching something: a big black bear. Sonny Pumphrey was cleaning up fall leaves in his driveway in White Oak, North Carolina, on Nov. 6 when he came face to face with a mother bear and her two cubs. He said that the cubs ran away when he saw them, but that the mother stayed behind, leaving him with no choice but to confront her.

When Shelton Laurel and the Appalachian war are mentioned at all, they are too often perceived as an exception, wiped off with a “war's hell” or blamed on the ways of those peculiar mountain folks. By David Forbes.

A man was shot Monday when one of his own booby traps went off while he was trying to feed squirrels at his Cleveland County home, according to the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office. The incident happened around 11:30 a.m. at a home on the 100 block of Blevins Drive. Investigators say a 68-year-old man opened his back door to feed the squirrels outside, and that’s when the booby trap went off.

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We’re thrilled to report that the herds of wild horses that roam North Carolina’s Outer Banks have emerged from Hurricane Florence unscathed. Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Corolla Wild Horse Fund both confirmed on social media over the weekend that their equine populations are safe and sound following Hurricane Florence’s lashing last week. Corolla Wild Horse Fund herd manager Meg Puckett told The News & Observer that the wild herd found higher ground and grouped together against the wind and rain. People on the island also kept an eye on them.

Hurricane Florence made landfall just east of Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday morning, lashing the coast with a record-setting storm surge and an onslaught of heavy rain and winds. As of Sunday morning, at least 14 deaths have been blamed on the storm, almost a million people were without power across North and South Carolina, and hundreds of people have had to be rescued from flooded areas along the coast

Tropical Storm Florence's relentless rain is flooding parts of the Carolinas and promises even more for days, officials said Saturday, a day after it landed as a hurricane and left at least 11 people dead -- including a baby. The issues prompted North Carolina to tell drivers coming down Interstate 95 from Virginia to go around -- the entire state. The state wants motorists to go west to Tennessee and take Interstate 75 into Georgia.

Norma Rae was a lie. By Nick Martin.

The statue, known as “Silent Sam,” stood on the Chapel Hill campus for more than a century. After nightfall on Monday, protesters felled it.

A boy selling lemonade in a North Carolina neighborhood was allegedly robbed Saturday when a teen pressed a black handgun to his stomach and demanded money. Deputies later found a black BB handgun on a trail in nearby woods of Monroe, North Carolina, the Union County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Sunday. Also found: A metal tin stolen from the boy, plus a camouflage hat matching the one reportedly worn by the teen who fled on foot.

An illiterate North Carolina soldier paid the ultimate price for deserting the Confederate state