North Carolina News

Utilities regulators are holding hearings across central and western North Carolina to let consumers share their thoughts about plans by Duke Energy Carolinas to raise electricity rates by $235 million a year.

It's a rainy Monday morning in April, and I'm headed to a soundstage at Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington that contains a replica of a devastated town.

President Obama's trip this month to Africa, with the first family tagging along, is projected to cost taxpayers as much as $100 million, sparking criticism as the federal government scrimps along during sequester-related budget cuts.

A drive to raise North Carolina's top speed limit to 75 mph moved ahead Tuesday after a House committee recommended a Senate bill despite warnings by legislators that higher speeds will mean more casualties.

Having their music featured on TV shows like "True Blood," and "Vampire Diaries," performing at festivals like Bonnaroo, and touring all over the country, it is hard to ignore Delta Rae.

A conservative shift by North Carolina's first Republican-led government in more than a century is drawing weekly protests to the state capital of Raleigh, but some lawmakers are defiantly standing their ground.

Three talented, poised, and beautiful young ladies from MusicWorks Studio of Performing Arts will take the stage in Raleigh this week for the 75th annual Miss North Carolina Scholarship Pageant.

A North Carolina environmental group is offering a $1,500 reward to find the thief who stole more than 1,000 Venus flytraps from a city garden in Wilmington.

Two Warren County elementary schools are setting an example that is stretching across the nation.

Republican leaders from 10 Southern states are meeting in Alabama to plan strategies for making new GOP inroads across the region.

Rep. Michael Speciale, a New Bern Republican, does not look as protesters, police, journalists and legal observers file past him on the second floor of the North Carolina State Legislative Building on Monday, June 17, 2013, prior to an act of civil disobedience opposing the Republican legislature's agenda.

PPP FINDS FOXX AHEAD IN N.C. SENATE PRIMARY: Rep. Virginia Foxx is North Carolina Republicans' top choice for their Senate nomination, according to a Public Policy Polling survey that will be released later today.

David Joyce, president and CEO of GE Aviation, shows off a GEnx jet engine to an official from North Carolina at the Paris Air Show Monday.

North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is ordering an emergency quarantine restricting the movement of firewood or any parts of ash trees from leaving three counties along the Virginia border.

A Maine man charged with kidnapping a man who was selling a car and stashing him in the car's trunk during a trip to Delaware has pleaded not guilty.

The North Carolina Chapter of the NAACP is readying for another week of protests that have led to the arrest of nearly 400 people since late April.

Summer is the perfect time to get out and explore the unique art and crafts Western North Carolina has to offer, through special events and dedicated shops.

An alligator, found lying under the waterfall of a lawn sprinkler at night, was captured in the front yard of a home here.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation says the lane will be closed from 7 a.m. Monday until 7 p.m. Tuesday as crews complete work on an expansion joint on the bridge over Fishing Creek.

In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. In 2008.