A quick drive from Charlotte, this park lets visitors gaze out over the surrounding mountains and down into an abandoned quarry that nature is reclaiming.

North Carolina’s coal plants may keep burning for years longer than anyone expected. A bill advancing through the state legislature would prohibit Duke Energy from retiring a single baseload power plant until the company secures state approval to build a nuclear replacement for every megawatt taken offline.

You voted, and the North Carolina Zoo listened! The results from the sand cat kitten naming poll are in. According to the North Carolina Zoo, more than 21,000 votes were cast in the poll, but in the end,

Six black bears were euthanized in western North Carolina over two weeks after wildlife officials said the animals had become dangerously comfortable around humans and increasingly dependent on food found near homes.

How North Carolina came to lose faith in a massive electric vehicle project — and why VinFast says it isn’t done yet.

A federal jury has convicted 26-year-old Laurinburg resident Kenneth Maurice Quick Jr. on eight federal charges, including first-degree murder, drug conspiracy, and obstruction of justice, following a trial in the U.

North Carolina’s black bear population has made a comeback, and people are more likely to come across the bears than in years prior. Jenna Malzahn, a black bear biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission,