North Carolina

Is Bigfoot lurking in North Carolina's forests? A Carolina Curious listener wanted to know. We dug into the state's Sasquatch lore for this week's Carolina Curious.

WFDD listener Judith Rush recently asked how exactly the beverage became the drink of the South. For this edition of Carolina Curious, WFDD's DJ Simmons spoke with an award-winning food writer and educator to learn more.

State officials are looking to connect more than 93,000 locations by 2030.

A new report shows an additional 5,000 to 10,000 college graduates are needed annually to meet NC job demands.

A study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition shows that all 50 states are experiencing this challenge.

For this week's Carolina Curious, a listener wanted to know how the Gold Rush impacted North Carolina, and if there any active gold mines in the state today.

This year, the state spent over $432 million helping about 80,000 students attend private schools. That’s nearly $250 million more than it spent last year, and more than twice the number of recipients.

North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in to a new term on Tuesday after the Democrat won a months-long fight against her Republican rival’s challenges to thousands of ballots.

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be the second man executed by firing squad in South Carolina. Mahdi also pled guilty to murder in Winston-Salem, where he was represented by Wake Forest Law professor Mark Rabil, who opposes the death penalty for Mahdi.

Former president Donald Trump is putting considerable time into North Carolina, which last backed a Democrat for president in 2008. His hope for victory is significantly more complicated if he were to the fast-growing state that gave Trump his smallest margin of victory over Democrat Joe Biden four years ago.