Recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released both national and state unemployment and jobs data from September.
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Bees Face Many Challenges – and Climate Change is Ratcheting up the Pressure | Opinion
The extreme weather that has battered much of the U.S. in 2022 doesn’t just affect humans.
Strange Occurrences at Ocracoke Island
Ocracoke Island, one of North Carolina’s popular vacation destinations, has experienced its fair share of phenomena involving sea creatures.
Travel Blog Ranks North Carolina As 9th Most Beautiful State, But Residents Know It’s Number One
North Carolina has served as a muse for songwriters across the generations, from “Carolina In My Mind” by James Taylor to “Chapel Hill” by Sonic Youth to simply “Carolina” by Harry Styles.
NC Gas Prices Again On the Rise, Jumping 14 Cents Compared to Last Week
The price of gas has gone up once again. In North Carolina, the average price for a gallon of regular gas has increased by 14 cents over the course of a week.
Buncombe County, and North Carolina At Large, Sees Boom In Remote Work
It’s no secret that one of the biggest shifts in work life in the past few years has been the increasing popularity of remote work as the pandemic forced offices everywhere to shut down.
Rum Keg Girl, The Story of One of the Most Popular Grave Sites in North Carolina
Along the coast of North Carolina lies one of the most well-known cemeteries in the state, The Little Girl Buried in a Rum Keg
After Community Outcry, EPA Won’t Send Soil From Superfund Site to Sampson County Landfill
Facing vigorous opposition from environmental justice advocates, the EPA won’t send contaminated soil from the Kerr-McGee Superfund site in Navassa, in Brunswick County, to the Sampson County landfill, federal records show.
ReBuild NC Placed Hurricane Survivors at Fayetteville Motel, Which Has Now Evicted Some of Them
On Thursday around 11:30 in the morning, several Hurricane Matthew survivors living at an Extended Stay America motel in Fayetteville, in Cumberland County received a knock on their door.
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia Unemployment Down One Percent From 2021
As released in the Bureau of Labor Statistics report earlier last month, North Carolina’s unemployment rate was 3.5 percent in August, up from 3.5 percent in July.