Breaking News } Flash Flood Watch for Johnston county.

After the company he co-founded sold earlier this year in a deal valued at $166.9 million, 31-year-old technology entrepreneur Aaron Houghton is now looking to launch a new marketing software business in Durham.

A Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress who tried to get his name off the ballot before winning this month's primary now says he's ready to run in the fall campaign.

You could hear the mountains of North Carolina in Doc Watson's music. The rush of a mountain stream, the steady creak of a mule in leather harness plowing rows in topsoil and the echoes of ancient sounds made by a vanishing people were an intrinsic part of the folk musician's powerful, homespun sound.

Changes to state gambling laws which allow the Cherokee casino in western North Carolina to offer live dealer poker and other table games have cleared a House budget subcommittee.

The Tennessee Valley Authority inspector general said Tuesday that two former executives at the federal utility withheld information about construction at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2, which has had cost overruns of up to $2 billion.

A bill to compensate people sterilized against their will through a state-sponsored program decades ago has cleared another North Carolina House committee, despite concerns from some Republicans about the plan's ultimate price tag.

North Carolina lawmakers are closer to scrapping the state's program measuring toxic air pollution.

The General Assembly gave final approval Tuesday to two bills that alter forced annexation rules in North Carolina for the second year in a row - this time to respond to a court ruling that struck down changes made in 2011.

The North Carolina site where "The Hunger Games' was filmed is being sold.

Steven Cooksey says all he wanted to do was help other diabetics get healthy, but a North Carolina agency tried to censor his online healthy food advice column, saying he was not a licensed dietitian.

As Democrats launch a campaign to encourage people to show their support for the party's national convention in Charlotte, a coalition of groups says it is still waiting for permits to hold a massive demonstration the weekend before the gathering.

Ambrose Dudley, a retired chief of bureau for The Associated Press, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 72.

Flash flood watches were in effect for much of the South Carolina coast as the remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl moved northeast from Georgia on Tuesday bearing as much as 4 inches of rain for parts of the Palmetto State.

Two men charged in the deaths of three people in Pitt County last month have now been charged with killing two people in Edgecombe County in March.

The North Carolina Senate is working on revamping public school policies ranging scrapping job-protecting tenure laws for teachers to protecting home-packed bagged lunches from child nutrition oversight.

A bi-partisan group says it is time to stop allowing politicians to draw new congressional and legislative districts every decade so they stay in power.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is closing a portion of Interstate 85 in Davidson County to allow workers to remove three columns that supported an overpass.