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A wildfire near the North Carolina border continues to grow as rain moves into the mountains.

RALEIGH The N.C. Highway Patrol is urging motorists to slow down as they take Labor Day weekend trips.

Forecasters said rain and thunderstorms still threatened North Carolina on Thursday, but with less intensity than the day before, as remnants of Tropical Storm Fay moved toward the coast.

Hey, read the rules! North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory says job creation will be his top priority if elected.

Drunken-driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, the government reported Thursday, but alcohol-related fatalities increased among motorcycle riders in half the states.

DENVER—The 2008 presidential election offers North Carolina a chance to settle the score from the racially-divisive Senate campaign of 1990, Gov.

Many older North Carolinians and those with disabilities will be able to get services at a one-stop service center planned in Raleigh.

DENVER : The Rev. Al Sharpton said Monday that he and other civil rights leaders are kicking off a campaign to register voters in seven key states.

Heavy rain from remnants of Tropical Storm Fay overwhelmed storm drains, flooded streams and prompted tornado warnings today throughout a wide swath of central North Carolina.

A 21-year-old mother of two was in serious condition Wednesday after surviving five days in a North Carolina ravine that hid the wreckage of her pickup truck from searchers.

Having nibbled the leaves off 75 million acres of hardwood forest in the Northeast since 1970, European gypsy moths are munching their way across U.S. forests while the even more destructive Asian gypsy moth ...

The North Carolina General Assembly would make history if it overrides Gov. Mike Easley's veto of a boat-towing bill.

For a second straight year, SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a decade, a trend attributed to a record number of students now taking the test.

Over the past 25 years, cheerleading accounted for two-thirds of all catastrophic sports injuries experienced by high school and college females in the United States, a much higher proportion than previously ...

ASHEVILLE Forecasters issued a flash flood watch this morning for more than 10 Western North Carolina counties and a tornado watch for two others as remnants of Tropical Storm Fay brought heavy rains and cut ...

Prosecutors say the evidence is clear: former Rep. Thomas Wright had something to hide, and did so by failing to respond truthfully to questions from state election officials.

A former student was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison Tuesday for plowing his sport utility vehicle into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a self-professed bid to avenge Muslim ...

Republicans are debating an election platform that differs in at least one striking way from the past _ it's purged of the dear-leader tributes that turned statements of party principles into an incessant hailing of the chief.

In fact, a draft of the document going to the GOP platform committee Tuesday mentions 2008 presidential candidate John McCain and President Bush not at all. They'll be worked in later, in a section or two to be added.

It's nothing personal, party officials hasten to say. Rather, they've put the platform on a crash diet.

Two weeks after a devastating revelation sent her husband into political exile, Elizabeth Edwards isn't getting the steady sympathy usually afforded to a woman scorned.

Talk about animal magnetism, cows seem to have a built-in compass. No bull: Somehow, cattle seem to know how to find north and south, say researchers who studied satellite photos of thousands of cows around the ...