RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina legislators completed an initial $273 million relief package on Wednesday to help spur ...

A severe solar storm is headed to Earth that could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back ...

Franklin Mayor Steve Barnett is proposing an approximately $22.4 million budget that increases employee insurance and ...

The county-wide burn ban is off again after a recent notice of elevated fire danger was lifted.

Represents: The Nineveh Township seat represents only Nineveh Township, and only voters who live within that township can ...

Franklin officials are amending rules for massage parlors after three spas were raided for “questionable business practices” ...

Hundreds of fifth-graders from Custer Baker Intermediate School traveled around downtown Franklin to learn about various ...

Ratan Tata, a former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night. He was 86. Tata ...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs wants to go to trial on sex trafficking charges next spring, lawyers for the jailed hip-hop mogul told a ...

As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with as many as 64 legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, ...

For years, the international shipping industry has been criticized for making little progress in reducing the carbon-belching ...

Sherri Myers, an 82-year-old resident of Pensacola City, Florida, says the Social Security cost-of-living increase she’ll ...