The North Carolina General Assembly is coming back for a post-election lame duck session. But what they’ll do, if anything, is still being decided.
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One of the small North Carolina racetracks that helped give birth to NASCAR is being repaved for the first time in 35 years, and chunks of the old track have become a hot commodity among racing fans. Hickory Motor Speedway apparently understands that kind of devotion to the sport, and it int…
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A fisherman accidentally set a “new species state record” in North Carolina when he caught an oval-shaped fish that no one on the charter boat could identify.
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Two climbers found themselves trapped hundreds of feet up a mountain wall after sunset, and it took a drone with thermal imaging to find them in the dark, according to rescuers in western North Carolina.
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The North Carolina General Assembly is coming back for a post-election lame duck session. But what they’ll do, if anything, is still being decided.
One of the small North Carolina racetracks that helped give birth to NASCAR is being repaved for the first time in 35 years, and chunks of the old track have become a hot commodity among racing fans. Hickory Motor Speedway apparently understands that kind of devotion to the sport, and it intends to oblige the unusual requests. The track is about a 45-mile drive northeast from uptown Charlotte. ...
A fisherman accidentally set a “new species state record” in North Carolina when he caught an oval-shaped fish that no one on the charter boat could identify.
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The North Carolina General Assembly is coming back for a post-election lame duck session. But what they’ll do, if anything, is still being decided.
On Monday, the McDowell County Board of Commissioners will hear an update on the data center moratorium and hold a public hearing about Freedom Life's housing project application.
"(Hickory) was just a very formative place for me to grow up, and I think it's a great place to live.”
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