Congrats to two NC Lottery players on big Powerball wins! A player with a ticket from Smoker Friendly on Bragg Street in Sanford won a $50,000 prize and a player with a ticket from Country Store on Hurdle Mills Road in Hurdle Mills won a $150,000 prize! pic.twitter.com/4O2n50ejLw

Back in June 2023, the NC State football recruiting team became one of the first to extend an offer to heralded South Garner High School (N.C.) offensive lineman Ekene Ogboko. The 6-foot-6, 280-pound four-star has visited the Wolfpack a few times since — no surprise given his close proximity to the campus in Raleigh.

NC's tax code lacks a provision for deducting gambling losses, but proposed House Bill 14 seeks to address this.

A Wind Advisory has been issued for parts of western North Carolina as gusty winds of up to 50 mph are expected to impact the region, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

A chance for mainly late day showers returns for Friday in the Piedmont Triad with mild upper 60s and windy weather. Clearing begins before the big weekend race events at Bowman Gray stadium in .

The most intriguing part of this 2025 North Carolina recruiting class is the fact that there are three QBs committed to the Tar Heels. The latest is Gary Merrill, and the other two are three-star Au'Tori Newkirk and four-star Bryce Baker, the highest-ranked player in the North Carolina class.

With the start of a new long session for the NC General Assembly, here are some prominent early childhood organizations and names to know.

A flight attendant who lives in Greenville has joined the conversation surrounding the tragedy of a military helicopter and regional jet crashing in Washington D.C. What we know about the DC plane crash victims Carmenlita Locke is a flight attendant with American Airlines PSA and flies out of Charlotte Douglas International

North Carolina officials charged with leading recovery efforts in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene have told state lawmakers that they need more money.

An air quality alert was issued on Thursday at 3:31 p.m. in effect until Friday at 7:15 a.m. The alert is for Burke Mountains, Greater Burke, McDowell Mountains and Eastern McDowell as well as Yancey and Mitchell counties.

The fire broke out on Wednesday in Old Fort, North Carolina, which was one of the North Carolina towns hardest hit by Hurricane Helene when the storm made landfall in September.