The tension between the interests of the state’s commercial fishing industry and its recreational fishers reached a boiling point when North Carolina lawmakers sought to ban inland shrimp trawling ...

Pace to remain on Albemarle County School Board Chuck Pace defeated Jim Dillenbeck in a special election Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by Katrina Callsen.

The Albemarle County doctor convicted earlier this year of feloniously using his finger to penetrate the genitals of one of his patients received a nearly 13-year sentence Wednesday evening.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board of Education will be asked Tuesday to approve the terminations or resignations of 117 employees, including 53 teachers who are losing their jobs.