A missing hiker found off a trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Buncombe County Thursday had been tied to a tree, according to emergency radio call recordings obtained by WLOS. In the recordings, a firefighter with the Reems Creek Volunteer Fire Department tells a dispatcher the 64-year-old woman is alive. “She’s not deceased at this time,” a rescue worker at the scene told a dispatcher. “She is tied to a tree. This is the one they were looking for.”

State midterms are even more boring than general midterms—and maybe more important. Case in point, North Carolina.

SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - North Carolina officials sued the U.S. Justice Department on Monday to defend a law that restricts use of public restrooms,

A Republican candidate running to become North Carolina's attorney general faced criticism on Tuesday after saying "we must fight to keep our state straight" while discussing a law that restricts transgender bathroom access and gay rights. The measure has positioned the state at the center of a debate over equality, privacy and religious freedom as states propose legislation seen as discriminatory against gay and transgender...

"Guests get to use the bathrooms."

The Blue Man Group is the latest musical act to cancel shows in North Carolina after the state's passage of a law limiting anti-discrimination protections for the LGBT community. The group was scheduled to perform June 17 through June 19 in Charlotte but issued a statement Friday that it was canceling the shows. The statement said the group values "every individual's right to live a dignified, vibrant life in full color. As such, we are joining the...

North Carolina is set to host the 2017 NBA All-Star game, but in a meeting with reporters today, commissioner Adam Silver said that the game will have to be moved if recently enacted anti-LGBT laws are not changed. Silver was much more vague when asked about when specifically such a decision would be made, but this is still as clear a rebuke of the North Carolina laws as we’ve seen from him.

McCrory boasted that while the business community has criticized him, people at "an African American buffet restaurant" in the small city of Hamlet, NC had thanked him protecting them.

For 28 years, Kay Grayson lived side-by-side with wild black bears in North Carolina's swampy coastal forests, hand-feeding them, defending them against poachers, and letting them in her home. When she went missing last year, the only thing the investigators could find were her clean-picked bones. And that's just the start of the mystery.

In protest of North Carolina's new anti-LGBT law, popular porn website XHamster.com has banned all computer users from the state. Since 12:30 p.m. ET Monday, the free porn-sharing site has blocked IP addresses from the Tar Heel State, citing a belief in equality for all. “We have spent the last 50 years fighting for equality for everyone and these laws are discriminatory which XHamster.com does not tolerate,” the site's spokesman told Huffington Post. “We feel this punishment is a severe one.

The Tale of Two Smithfields. By Emily Wallace. (Dec. ’15)

Among others voicing objections: the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes and director Rob Reiner (This Is Spinal Tap, Misery). Nevertheless, McCrory has announced that the passing of the law was all but common sense. But Howard said the legislation fixed a problem that Charlotte created.

The controversial restriction takes effect for the first time in the March 15 primary.

Logan Graham, a student at North Carolina State University, recently wrote a column in the university’s newspaper, The Technician, expressing his outrage over the troubles he faced when he tried to get a voter ID as an out-of-state student after new, contentious voter ID laws were passed in North Carolina.

A working mother fights to give her kids a better life in a city where that’s next to impossible. By Lisa Rab.

In a federal courtroom with room for fewer than 100 people in the gallery, an army of attorneys has spent the past week arguing over whether North Carolina’s voter ID law harms the fundamental right to vote.

This David vs. Goliath story could impact the future of renewable energy everywhere.

Stan Eury turned an obscure bit of immigration law into a mammoth federal program — and a lucrative business empire, importing tens of thousands of Mexican workers for legal American jobs. Except that some of the jobs weren’t real jobs, and an untold number of those workers may never have returned to Mexico at all.

Brewers in N.C. point to the power of peer pressure to change minds about renewables.

In North Carolina, "barbecue" means barbecued pork, and regional varieties draw fierce loyalty. Some call it the Balkans of barbecue.