North Carolina News

Since North Carolina's founding as a colony of the British crown more than 400 years ago, 99 men have taken office as chief executive.

Workplace deaths in North Carolina are on the rise after three years of declines, and officials worry that the nation's sagging economy is partly to blame.

The staff of incoming North Carolina Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton will be led by the executive director for the state Democratic Party for the past four years.

The North Carolina Home Builders Association plans to push its case on why a federal economic stimulus package should help their industry by encouraging buyers, which then would boost residential construction.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined business leaders on Thursday in protesting the decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to select a site in Kansas for a new $450 million federal disease laboratory.

The ACLU is suing a North Carolina school system it says has denied access to a pacifist who wants to talk to students about alternatives to the military.

Hey, read the rules! Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue is dampening some expectations in her first year as North Carolina governor, including plans to offer free community college tuition.

Franklin Graham's relief organization says a Sudanese leader is coming to North Carolina to visit Graham's Samaritan's Purse group and thank it for relief efforts.

Four colleges in North Carolina are ranked among the country's best values in private higher education.

COLUMBUS -- The unemployment claims systems in Ohio and at least two other states buckled this week under an onslaught of telephone calls and Web site hits from people who lost their jobs at the end of 2008, ...

Babies do better after a scheduled Caesarean section if they're born no sooner than seven days before their due date, a new large study of U.S. births shows.

The North Carolina Transportation Department estimates the number of people killed on the state's roads in 2008 dropped by 18 percent, compared with the previous year.

Brinks Inc. has offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed an armored truck guard in North Carolina last month.

All 100 North Carolina counties experienced a rise in unemployment in November, with 17 posting double-digit jobless rates.

Authorities in eastern North Carolina charged a man Tuesday with several counts of animal cruelty after investigators found dismembered animals at his home.

Electronic unemployment filing systems have crashed in at least three states in recent days amid an unprecedented crush of thousands of newly jobless Americans seeking benefits, and other states were adjusting ...

North Carolina Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue has wrapped up her Cabinet picks by choosing a former deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to lead the agency.

The newest members of North Carolina's congressional delegation are officially beginning their work in Washington.

The North Carolina Council of State will try to help stimulate the state economy by signing off on new debt for state construction projects.

A North Carolina law firm named for two former governors is merging with a South Carolina firm that wants a location in North Carolina's capital city.