Data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education shows that North Carolina students are ahead of the nation in eighth grade math and tracking with their peers in other tested subjects.

In 1587, a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and the ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have ...

President Donald Trump is heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles.

North Carolina's rapidly growing population makes for some interesting projections for the years, and decades, to come.

Temperatures in the North Carolina mountains are falling to nightly lows near zero, with wind chills near minus-20 degrees, ...

Extreme cold combined with wind can cause the human body to lose heat at a faster rate, enhancing the risk of frostbite and ...

In addition to voting for president, North Carolina voters are selecting a new governor and lieutenant governor. The ballot also includes other Council of State races as well as U.S. House ...

Snow is expected to fall across large swathes of the North East this weekend, and everyone is braced for some icy weather. A weather warning for snow and ice is set to come into force from midday ...

Cory Lavalette is a freelance writer covering the Carolina Hurricanes. He is senior editor for North State Journal, a statewide newspaper based in Raleigh covering North Carolina, and has written ...