Breaking News } Special Weather Statement for Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Wake counties.

UNC Health Care’s $30 million psychiatric hospital, proposed last week to relieve emergency room use by the mentally ill, will take a year just to prepare all required paperwork. The project, which lacks a site, is UNC’s olive branch to competitor WakeMed Health and Hospitals in exchange for WakeMed agreeing to drop its hostile takeover bid for UNC’s Rex Hospital in Raleigh.

A newly discovered small asteroid has harmlessly zipped close to Earth - just as scientists expected.

The head of the National Weather Service has suddenly retired and the agency is seeking an emergency $35.6 million from Congress because of allegations of financial mismanagement and money shifting within the agency.

Michelle Obama, the nation's first lady and a high-profile spokeswoman for healthy eating, has added a new book on growing and cooking nutritious food to her resume. Here's an easy soup recipe from the White House chefs, printed in "American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America."

In the trees and grasses of the South, there are a growing number of unwanted visitors that at best are an itchy nuisance and at worst can carry debilitating diseases: Ticks.

They're throwing granny off a cliff!

State lawmakers are considering a measure that would limit how North Carolina prepares for sea-level rise, which many scientists consider one of the surest results of climate change.