Dropped as a candidate for White House chief of staff, U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows issued a statement declaring his commitment to working with President Trump and representing the N.C. mountains.

 

 

This week’s Hendersonville Lightning may reach newsracks a little later than usual because of hazardous road conditions around the county. But, fortunately for all, the best newspaper in town will be on the street today and in mailboxes on Lightning Thursday — providing, by the way, another good reason to become a Lightning subscriber. Click […]

 

Schools are closed again Wednesday as secondary roads have yet to be cleared and black ice is probable after refreezing overnight.

RALEIGH -- As North Carolina recovers from the season’s first big winter storm, Governor Cooper thanked   responders and reminding residents to be prepared for more winter weather.

RALEIGH -- Governor Roy Cooper today announced a free, first-of-its-kind online tool to lead the way in connecting education to career. The new work-based learning tool, called “The Navigator,” brings together members of the business, education, and workforce development communities in a space where they can post, search for and measure work-based learning opportunities.

RALEIGH --- Pendo, a growing technology company founded in Raleigh, will more than triple its local operations over the next five years, adding 590 jobs and investing $34.5 million in Wake County, Governor Roy Cooper announced.

English seaman Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, with five ships and 164 men on a mission to raid Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World and explore the Pacific Ocean. Three years later, Drake’s return to Plymouth marked the first circumnavigation of the earth by a ...

Under the care of Robert Cushman, the first American furs to be exported from the continent leave for England aboard the Fortune. One month before, Cushman and the Fortune had arrived at Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts with 35 settlers, the first new colonists since the settlement was ...