For decades, Johnston County didn’t look all that different from other parts of rural North Carolina. It relied heavily on ...

Aiken County's population has increased from 169,000 to 179,000. Better weather, lower taxes, lower cost-of-living and ...

By 2050, thousands in coastal North Carolina may face severe flooding from rising seas, with older adults especially at risk, according to a new Climate Central report.

Governor Josh Stein is announcing more than $31 million to connect thousands of homes and businesses in 14 counties to ...

Edgecombe, Beaufort and Nash leaders recently described how they're working to cut opioid overdoses, and they all went to the source.

Lighter winds Monday helped crews in South Carolina and North Carolina battle wildfires that caused evacuations ... windy conditions. Horry County’s population has doubled to 400,000 people over the ...

Sunset Beach unveiled a new parking map that puts dozens of streets off limits for parking and now has banned parking on both ...

Asheville and Buncombe County's point in time count, an annual single-night census of its unhoused population ... Of those who responded "no," 31 said their last housing was in Western North Carolina, ...

Dry, windy conditions across North Carolina have made for ... have been evacuated in Polk County, west of Charlotte, due to a ...

The senior population in the U.S. has grown as the baby-boom generation has progressed into the 65 years and older age group. In 2023, there were 59,307,056 Americans over the age of 65.

Wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation Sunday in a North Carolina county still recovering from Hurricane Helene, and South Carolina's governor declared an emergency in response to a growing ...

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday said the delimitation exercise to demarcate Lok Sabha constituencies should take the national population growth rate as the reference point rather than each ...