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Greensboro & Winston-Salem, -- On Thursday, July 2, from 10:0am to 8:00pm, all guests donating non-perishable food items to the Second Harvest Food Bank at either BounceU stadium in Greensboro or Winston-Salem will get a fun-filled hour of recreation for just a dollar.

Surry County already has the second-highest unemployment rate in Northwest North Carolina and the Triad area, and a local official says there's no relief in sight.

A colossal political battle is being waged in Raleigh over residential insurance for coastal property.

The town of Boone's proposal to put a water intake plant on the New River that could draw as much as 4 million gallons of water daily must be carefully scrutinized.

The Better Business Bureau of Northwest N.C. issued a warning yesterday of a scam involving a group called Bloomfield Lending Group.

Children living with hunger in North Carolina by Yasmine Regester Carolina Peacemaker Originally posted 6/24/2009 One in four children live on the brink of hunger in North Carolina.

Give a young child the lid to the old stew pot and a wooden spoon and soon you have a percussion section right there under the kitchen table.

Nurses from throughout three eastern North Carolina counties gathered this week to participate in a "Strengthening the Health Safety Net: Your Community's Nursing Workforce" forum.

As we've reported numerous times on 3WC News, deaths by drug oversode are climbing in the county at an alarming rate.

A local group announced yesterday that it is launching a county-wide campaign to stop the proposed Fibrowatt poultry manure incinerator in Elkin.

Donna Reeves was worried about her daughter Casey's drug use. "I told her, 'I don't want to get that phone call somebody's found my daughter dead,'" Reeves said.

Several transit projects in Northwest North Carolina are among 140 state transit projects that will get federal stimulus money, Gov.

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MUCH OF THURSDAY. THIS WILL BRING REPEATED BOUTS OF HEAVY RAIN TO SOME AREAS...AND THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING.

Starting this weekend, there's a new feature on my blog: a community price book to help us all save.

Rain should taper off this morning, but runoff could still lead to some flooding after the rain ends today, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service said this morning.

Gov. Bev Perdue said today that Apple Inc. will build a new data center in North Carolina, with an expected investment of more than $1 billion over nine years.

"Good morning, Mr. Charlie," Buddy Kelly says as he walks into a small trailer to hand an elderly man his lunch.

Many of us are all but numb to stories about the effects of the recession. But one last week that noted a sharp increase in the need for food assistance in the region stood out.

"A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN WILKES COUNTY... AT 345 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER PARTS OF THE WARNED AREA.

State transportation officials hope to have a plan today to fix a huge sinkhole on U.S. 421 in Wilkesboro that was created yesterday when heavy rain washed away soil near the highway.