An important cultural site is close to being returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after a city council in North Carolina voted unanimously Monday to return the land. The Noquisiyi Mound in ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Eastern North Carolina is my home. I love this place – and I’ve worked hard throughout ...

Forever War, Part 2: This story is published in partnership with WHQR, a nonprofit radio station and NPR affiliate in Wilmington. It is the second in a series of stories about the PFAS crisis in North ...

Eastern North Carolina finally got another taste of winter on Monday, and depending on where you live, it looked very different out your window. Along and south of Highway 264, this system behaved ...

PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — As a winter weather event moves across eastern North Carolina, temperatures could get cold enough for the potential of ice to form on the roads overnight. Flurries began to ...

The Kinston, North Carolina, factory acquired by Airbus makes fuselages and wing spars for the company’s A350 wide-body plane. KARL JEFFS Airbus Airbus acquired the Kinston fuselage plant after Boeing ...

For more than 50 years, Jean Beasley worked to protect sea turtles, safeguarding more than 3,000 nests and overseeing the emergence of nearly 250,000 hatchlings since she started collecting data in ...

Cases of deer attacking people have been reported across North Carolina and experts believe humans are to blame, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission says. Ken Taylor N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission ...

Five eastern North Carolina school districts have hit the jackpot, being awarded millions in state lottery-funded grants for school construction and renovation projects. But Pitt County Schools did ...

The National Thanksgiving Turkeys, Chocolate, left, and Chip moved into their new home at the N.C. State University Talley Turkey Education Unit after receiving a pardon from President Joe Biden at ...

A few areas in Eastern North Carolina woke up to an unusual sight on this Veterans Day, with snowflakes falling weeks ahead of winter. A strong Arctic cold front swept through overnight, dropping ...