The Friday night lights blaze back to life this week as North Carolina high school football kicks off another season. While every game counts, some matchups carry extra weight, setting the tone for the year and offering early tests for teams with championship aspirations.

Hurricane Erin, already twice as large as it was just a few days ago, is expected to grow even larger this week as its expanding wind field brushes up against the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, delivering days of dangerous waves,

For the first time in years, the anticipation in Chapel Hill for North Carolina football is truly palpable. The driving force is the arrival of legendary head coach Bill Belichick—a six-time Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots—who,

A man is arrested after police located a missing Iowa girl in North Carolina Monday.On Sunday, the Fairfield Police Department contacted law enforcement in North Carolina regarding a missing juvenile.

By Tuesday morning, Erin had lost some strength from previous days and dropped to a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph), the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Voter registration records for more than 20,000 people in North Carolina have been successfully amended thus far in an effort by election officials to add missing identification numbers. In mid-July,

Some Amtrak cancellations will continue today (Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025) following the Sunday evening derailment of a CSX coal train near Enfield, but a majority of the trains cancelled Monday will operate as scheduled.

The storm, which is set to move through the North Atlantic, could bring 'an increased possibility of stronger winds and rain, some of which could be heavy and thundery', warned the Met Office.