McDonald’s restaurants across North Carolina are being renovated and adding kiosks for ordering and table service. It plans to spend about $214 million to modernize 430 restaurants — most of the company’s locations in North Carolina.
After a deadly year for N.C. prison workers, state leaders say they will significantly stiffen penalties for inmates who assault staff. Inmates who attack prison employees will be placed in solitary confinement and lose visitation privileges.
The teenager accused of robbing a 9-year-old boy’s lemonade stand in Charlotte, NC, has been arrested. His identity was not released because of his age.
After a September 2016 sales scandal, federal authorities are reviewing San Francisco based Wells Fargo after it admitted to an error that caused hundreds in foreclosure to be incorrectly denied loan modifications.
Cúrate, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina, has made Food & Wine’s list of the 40 most important restaurants of past 40 years. Executive chef Katie Button was credited for the restaurant’s success.
A North Carolina prison sergeant has resigned after being charged with trying to deliver marijuana and the addictive suboxone drug to an inmate at Lanesboro Correctional Institution in Anson County.
At least one priest who had served in North Carolina is named in a scorching Pennsylvania grand jury report on Tuesday criticizing the Catholic Church’s handling of reports of sexual abuse in that state for decades.
Video captured off South Carolina’s Edisto Island caught an armadillo swimming in the ocean on Sunday. It joins growing list of oddities found on Carolinas beaches, including rattlesnakes and bears.
North Topsail Beach in North Carolina has averaged more than one stingray injury per day for the past month, emergency officials say. Here’s how to avoid stingrays and what to do if you’re stung by one.
At 65.9 pounds, a cantaloupe grown by Danny Vester in Spring Hope, NC, is now the largest in the world. Vester is well-known for growing large pumpkins and watermelons too.
A North Carolina man’s cantaloupe sets new Guinness World Record for biggest cantaloupe by more than 5 pounds. Four years ago, Vester grew North Carolina’s biggest-ever pumpkin.
Sheriff’s investigators in Henderson County in the North Carolina mountains say they were fired upon when they went to investigate possible bear poaching. One suspect was charged with felony first-degree attempted murder.
Virginia local and state police announced plans to combat drunk driving by holding nearly 100 DUI and DWI traffic checkpoints and over 600 saturation patrols from August 17th through Labor Day holiday weekend.
The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles announced Tuesday that will reassign staff and hire more driver’s license examiners to try to reduce the long lines at its driver’s license offices around the state.
A World War II bomber crashed into Badin Lake, northeast of Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1944. As part of CuriousNC, a reader asks: Was the plane ever found? Who were the crew members who died?
A video gaining traction on YouTube suggests a “huge UFO” was recently spotted over Lake Norman north of Charlotte. The footage was recorded May 29 but has recently gained attention on social media.
North Carolina has six nationally ranked hospitals but Duke University Hospital is the only one in the national top 20 and one of only two in the Southeast that are in the top 20.
United States ICE officials will deport a Wilmington, North Carolina, man back to Ghana, stripping him of U.S. citizenship for sexually assaulting his stepdaughter when she was a child in fourth grade.
At 65.9 pounds, a cantaloupe grown by Danny Vester in Spring Hope, NC, is now the largest in the world. Vester is well-known for growing large pumpkins and watermelons too.
