The care packages feature a distinct North Carolina flavor, often packed with Mount Olive pickles, local peanuts, and regional barbecue sauces. Organizers say these items provide a critical morale boost for troops who have been deployed for months at a time.

Using a process called dendrochronology—or tree-ring dating—experts have confirmed the timber used to build the house was harvested around 1760. That places its construction more than a decade before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum has announced a formal dedication ceremony for a new historical marker honoring Dr. Booker T. Washington.

The Office of State Archaeology Conservation Lab in Greenville—formerly known as the Queen Anne’s Revenge Lab—officially debuted its new name and a broader focus last week.

North Carolina Wildlife officers navigated more than seven miles by boat to reach the female eagle found entangled in fishing line.

Crew was first stabilized at the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center before being moved to the National Aquarium in Baltimore for specialized rehabilitation. Marine biologists said Crew has recovered nicely and has reached all the health milestones necessary for his return to the wild.

The legislature’s budget stalemate has hit North Carolina’s prison system hard, making it difficult to pay bills and keep enough staff to safely operate its 55 facilities.

Surry County Schools Superintendent Travis Reeves is leaving the district on June 30 and taking a new role as executive director of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators.

A quartet of Republican judges ruled Thursday along party lines to overturn the court’s precedent. At stake is a multi-billion dollar plan to provide state funds to improve public education in North Carolina.

The North Carolina Supreme Court overturned its own 2022 decision in the long-running Leandro school funding case.

Most of the money is for debris removal and road repair.

Duke Energy is asking permission from state regulators to raise rates for both its North Carolina companies. But first, the public has a chance to weigh in.

Historian Ian Buruma chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners — including his own father — during World War II. Stay Alive is about the past, but has powerful lessons for the present.

Lithgow, 80, plays an intelligence agent in the FX action series The Old Man, and he's currently starring in the Broadway production of Giant, about a troubling side of children's author Roald Dahl.

Some 20,000 seafarers are trapped in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz; the UN says its trying to extricate them.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks retired Rear Admiral and former national security communications adviser John Kirby about President Trump's address on the war with Iran.

President Trump addressed the nation Wednesday night to outline his objectives for the war in Iran, discuss the military's progress to date and announce the war there is "nearing completion."

State agencies, private landowners and tribes can preempt wildfires by conducting controlled burns. But these controlled burns can only happen when the forecast allows.