WINSTON-SALEM — The Winston-Salem City Council has taken an initial step in changing the name of a fair after protests that it was offensive.

Assistant City Manager Ben Rowe told members of the Fair Planning Committee on Wednesday that the city council decided the Dixie Classic Fair name…

CHAPEL HILL — A new bridge proposed for North Carolina’s barrier islands is being challenged by local residents, hunters and wildlife enthusiasts.

A lawsuit challenging state and federal approval of the Mid Currituck Bridge was filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Raleigh by the…

WILSON — A new initiative led by the Upper Coastal Plain Council of Government is combining two of Executive Director Robert Hiett’s areas of expertise: workforce development and online gaming.

“Like most people early in their career, I had a second job. Mine just happened to be…

East Carolina’s baseball team never trailed in a victory at Old Dominion on Wednesday night, giving the Pirates a six-game winning streak heading into a big American Athletic Conference matchup with second-place Tulane in Greenville.

ECU won 10-7 against the Monarchs in Norfolk, Va., thanks…

East Carolina went from on the bubble to officially in the NCAA women’s golf tournament on Wednesday, when the entire four-regional bracket was announced.

The Pirates will be the No. 14 seed at the Auburn (Ala.) Regional, beginning May 6, that is led by Duke as the No. 1 seed and American…

Facing the final five-game week of its regular season, East Carolina’s baseball team had to battle to knock off rival UNC Wilmington on Tuesday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium.

ECU’s 8-5 victory required much more late-inning drama than in the Pirates’ routine 9-1 win over the…

Back in the 1970s, America, in its dependence on fossil fuels, suffered from the OPEC oil cartel embargo. It caused everything to rise, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, all connected to higher prices at the pump. President Carter saw our national vulnerability to polluting toxic finite…

On April 18, U.S. Attorney General William Barr released Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the probe into "Russian meddling" in the 2016 presidential election. The report cleared President Donald Trump and his campaign team of allegations that they conspired with the Russian government in…

George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School hired Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to co-teach a course this summer called Creation of the Constitution. The course will be held 3,668 miles away, in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed 800 years ago.

Some…

With warmer days on the way, chilled soups are a bright and refreshing alternative to a steaming bowl of soup. And while cool soups are certainly a solution to the heat of summer, they are also delicious year-round.

In fact, the slightly chilled temperature often amplifies the flavor and…

As the flames rushed through Notre Dame Cathedral's wooden rafters — each beam cut from an individual oak — a squad of firefighters began a strategic mission.

Their leader was Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade. The goal was to save a crown of thorns that…

DEAR HARRIETTE: My brother and I live together in a two-apartment house. I like our arrangement. Even though we are both adults, we are young, and it feels safer having him around. He has a dog — a puppy, really — that he got about a year ago. Because my brother is still in school and…

DEAR HARRIETTE: My brother and I live together in a two-apartment house. I like our arrangement. Even though we are both adults, we are young, and it feels safer having him around. He has a dog — a puppy, really — that he got about a year ago. Because my brother is still in school and…

During my middle school years, my parents always used to invite my mother’s eccentric Uncle Bill to our house for Sunday dinner on Easter and other holidays. I don’t remember much of anything about Uncle Bill — except that he somehow managed to find ways to embarrass me in front…

The refrigerator beeps if I accidentally leave the door open, which I do a lot, but it's a different beep than the one the dishwasher makes to tell me it has finished putting spots on my glasses.

Do I really have to know when the dishwasher is finished with its spotting cycle? Besides, when the…