The Great Smoky Mountains are not just the setting for the annual writers conference, but a key feature with a focus on ...

Applications for the annual Tremont Writers Conference will be accepted through May 15. The conference will be held Oct.

Crown & Thistle soft-opened for friends and family in late November with a grand opening on Dec. 12. The sisters scoured antique stores from North Carolina to Florida to buy the tearoom’s china ...

Click “event calendar,” then “Hickory Calendar.” Scroll down until you see “Parent & Me – LEGO® Heart Ornament Class – ...

About three decades earlier, in the spring of 1930, miniature golf courses, in the words of the News, “grew up like mushrooms ...

What Is a Weed? Not everyone agrees on which plants are weeds, or what to do about them. Not all weeds need to be eradicated.

The maximum weekly unemployment payment of $350 hasn't changed for more than a decade, and it's among the lowest in the country — even as the cost of living in North Carolina and across the U.S ...

North Carolina Senator Jim Burgin, a Republican from Harnett County, sits in his office at the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh. The state Senate is considering a bill this week that would ...

More than 100 people in North Carolina have died from influenza since late last year, and case counts are still on the rise. There have been 117 flu-related deaths in North Carolina since Oct. 5 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — As a major blast of bitter cold heads for North Carolina early this week, the major electric utility in the state says preparations are underway to deal with the arctic temps.

A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in North Carolina’s monthslong battle over the results of November’s state Supreme Court election. Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate ...