Rockhounding is a popular activity, but digging through the rules of where you can go and what you can keep isn't much fun.

The thrill of the hunt keeps people coming back, sometimes driving hours from across North Carolina just to see what new treasures have appeared since their last visit. Regular customers develop ...

That’s the everyday experience at The Depot at Gibson Mill in Concord, North Carolina—a bargain hunter’s wonderland where ...

The America 250 commemoration in McDowell County will pick up steam during the next three weeks, with two events scheduled ...

In Charlotte, new surveillance footage shows a shocking attack on a young woman in her work uniform riding the train. Police say just minutes after she sat down a man behind her pulled a knife from ...

The Gold Shield Foundation of North Carolina is committed to offer immediate financial assistance to the families of fallen or critically injured first responders. The non-profit organization creates ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WRAL) - North Carolina’s statewide average test proficiency rates are still behind pre-pandemic levels across all subjects except for fourth-grade reading and fourth-grade math, new ...

An evening bike ride on a rural road turned fatal in a most unusual way, when the cyclist slammed into a deer, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol. The crash happened around 7:30 p.m.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — When the general assembly decided to build a state university here 235 years ago, they named the town for a church built by the British. The little chapel on the hill was actually ...

Six-time Super Bowl champions coach Bill Belichick makes his North Carolina debut when the Tar Heels take on the TCU Horned Frogs in college football's final game of Week 1 on Monday night. Belichick ...

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover ...