Russia and the U.S. agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and ...

The NCHSAA also pushed back when basketball seeds will be set for playoffs from Saturday to Sunday. The change is aimed to ...

Southwest Airlines said Monday it will cut 15% of its corporate workforce, or 1,750 people — the first mass layoffs in the ...

Pinpointing the genesis of “waste, fraud and abuse” as political rhetoric is difficult. But the concept is older than the ...

Star: One of the shelter's longest residents, Star is the sweetest dog. She can be shy at first but will warm up quickly with ...

Burke County Public Schools will not have school on Wednesday. Due to the forecast for winter weather and possible snow, Wednesday, Feb. 19, will be a snow day for students, Burke County Public ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us communicate in a novel way.

The Trump administration gave America's schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money.

"Foothills Conservancy has done amazing work on so many levels for some time now," said David Benner, son of the trail's ...

Burke County is planning to open a facility focused on addiction recovery aimed to address opioid use and overdoses. The facility could be funded in part by money the county receives from lawsuit ...

"I'm new as your congressman, but this is not new, trying to work closely with Burke County to help out," said U.S. Rep. Tim ...

Victor Wembanyama has already gone up against the U.S. in international events, most notably last year’s Paris Olympics. He’d ...