The postmaster in Star is accepting entries through Oct. 11 for the postal district's annual Christmas holiday postmark.

The unemployment rate for Randolph County decreased slightly from July to August but countered a trend this summer of the rate rising incrementally.

The number of people killed by flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall over the weekend in Nepal has reached 193 ...

Joe Wolf, a former North Carolina captain for Dean Smith who went on to play for seven teams in an 11-year NBA career before ...

Alex Bowman opened NASCAR’s playoffs on defense — not of his style of driving, but of his status in the seat of the No. 48 ...

Ross Chastain took the lead from Martin Truex Jr. on a late restart and won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on ...

Cone Health is installing a complex piece of equipment for cancer treatment in the medical center it is building northwest of ...

The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching ...

North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has quickly named his next chief of staff in his state government office.

The dog can stay, at least for another round of NASCAR’s playoffs. The future of little Lulu, the stray puppy Denny Hamlin’s ...

Even though rushing yards are up and passing numbers are down over the first three weeks of the season, it’s too soon to call ...

Author Nicholas Sparks chose the heart of North Carolina to be the setting for his most recent book, “Counting Miracles.” ...