Goldsboro is hoping to return one of its historical landmarks to its former glory as a fully functioning transportation depot and the nation's top transportation official got a chance to check it all out.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold five public meetings in the South to hear people's opinions about using genetically modified crops on wildlife refuges as food for migrating waterfowl.
Looking ahead to the 2013 hurricane season which is just over a month away, the National Weather Service says, much like last year, they expect this season to produce 12 to 13 named storms.
Greenville Police say heroin is replacing crack and cocaine as the popular street drug. Doctors and drug counselors in the east say it's resurgence is directly connected to skyrocketing addiction to prescription pills.
The doctor who oversaw death investigations in North Carolina for 23 years is expected to testify this week as families try to hold medical examiners accountable for their mistakes.
A North Carolina political strategist who died this week after being stabbed in her home is being remembered by family, friends and political allies at a church service and a Democratic Party dinner.
It has state of the art equipment. A spacious emergency room. Brand new operating rooms that aren't even up and running yet. Even a mobile MRI machine. But this is one hospital you hope you never have to visit.
The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday approved a bill its sponsors say will make the state more business-friendly. The bill requires cities, counties and numerous state environmental agencies to repeal or rewrite rules that go beyond federal law.
The Senate voted by a wide margin Thursday in favor of a bill directing state education leaders to ensure students are instructed how to write legibly in cursive by the end of fifth grade.
The Senate voted 29-16 Thursday in favor of permitting the use of suppressors when the hunter meets federal qualifications to own one, which includes criminal background checks.
NC State Auditor Beth Wood tells WITN the Department of Public Safety paid for medically questionable services, or for services already paid for in other bills.
A Pitt County farmer who shot two pit bulls on Monday when he says he saw them attacking his sheep is talking with WITN about what he says has been an ongoing problem.