With warm (and soon hot) temperatures across North Carolina, snakes are out and about. Here in the Triangle, that means some of us might be seeing venomous copperheads as we visit parks and trails ...

Eastern kingsnakes eat rodents and other snakes, and the dreaded copperhead, South Carolina’s most populous venomous snake.

Good morning and welcome to Under the Dome. I’m Caitlyn Yaede. As the week wraps up, the House unveiled much ... president of the University of North Carolina System, shared with the Board ...

North Carolina teachers and state employees will receive pay increases under the two-year budget plan released Monday by the state House of Representatives — raises that will be paid for in part ...

Under the House’s proposal to increase other tuition rates across the system, the Board of Governors wouldn’t be allowed to change the in-state NC Promise rates of $500 per semester.

A Missouri mom taking her son to baseball practice got quite a surprise this week when an unexpected passenger hitched a ride under her car’s hood.

The bipartisan bill, called the Fostering Care in NC Act, passed unanimously in the House and is now headed to the Senate. Lawmakers say the bill would give the state more power to hold county-run ...

David Rodriguez Munoz USA TODAY NETWORK The theme of North Carolina House Republicans’ budget so far has been cuts: saving millions of dollars by cutting vacant state employee jobs, as well as ...

The N.C. House began releasing its budget proposal Thursday, and Republicans are planning cuts in what's expected to be a tight budget year. Lawmakers got their first look at parts of the spending ...