At its annual attainment event in February, myFutureNC released new data on North Carolina’s progress toward its educational ...

From the beautiful Smoky Mountains to the scenic Outer Banks, North Carolina has a range of inviting big cities and smaller ...

Approximately 339,255 people moved to North Carolina in 2023, while 232,663 moved out. This represents a positive net ...

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

Notably, 14 counties in the state lost population between 2020 and 2024, according to Census estimates. Many of them are in rural northeastern North Carolina. New county drives metro's growth ...

In 2009, another large wildfire hit Horry County, where it burned more than 19,000 acres. Seven years later, the largest mountain wildfire in South Carolina's history ignited and burned more than ...

In the Carolinas, wildfires have set 11,314 acres ablaze, and two of the biggest fires in North Carolina are responsible for at least half of that. Both South Carolina and North Carolina have issued ...

North Carolina purchased 273 acres for $6.15 million in Harnett County. The land will likely be incorporated into Raven Rock State Park. Harnett County's population has increased 27 percent since ...

Texas and the Carolinas continue to attract the most new residents from individuals who move to a different state while California and New York are the big losers, according to a new analysis of ...

The population of the Myrtle Beach area grew 17.8% between April 2020 and last July 1, second only to The Villages in Florida. The Wilmington area grew 13.7%. North Carolina’s two big urban ...

California’s population has increased by less than 6%; in Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia and Utah, the increases range from 15% to nearly 30%. And the prognosis for California’s ...