Since COVID, couples have leaned into the cheap and quick option of getting married at a courthouse. Or a jail.

Duke Energy announced big profits during this week’s quarterly earnings call. The presentation comes on the heels of new legislation that further improves the company's credit and removes a key North Carolina climate target.

Severe damage from Helene led engineers to declare the Lake Lure Flowering Bridge beyond repair, but volunteers say the garden’s legacy will live on.

Neurologist and Duke ALS Clinic Director Richard Bedlack “stitches strength” for his patients, showing the powers of hope.

Researchers believe the autonomous robot makes things more efficient for scientists by completing tasks programmed through coding.

Eating excessive calories is 10 times more influential than sedentariness in driving the obesity epidemic, researchers say.

A Republican-backed spending bill would allow the hiring of political appointees to state elections administrations staff.

When the Trump administration recently reversed course on billions in federal education funding, it wasn’t the first time something like this happened. Earlier this year, it also pulled - and then reinstated - COVID relief funds that had a big impact on one Robeson County school.

The Trump Administration ended the BRIC program even as the nation is experiencing increasingly frequent and wetter storms. The state says $200 million in grants were affected in North Carolina.

This summer, record-breaking flooding has left communities in central North Carolina reeling. But the danger isn’t over. Flooding can lead to a range of public health problems, even after the floodwaters recede.