An ambitious medical debt relief initiative involving nearly every North Carolina hospital has well exceeded its first-year goals for low- and middle-income households.

Catawba County Assistant District Attorney Nancy Lee was recognized as a recipient of the Law Enforcement Commendation and Medal by the Catawba Valley Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution ...

Divorce has seen a significant decline since the early 1980s, according to analysis by the Pew Research Center. The refined divorce rate peaked at 22.6 divorces per 1,000 married women around 1980, ...

Today, we largely think of Seiko as a maker of analog mechanical watches. The brand that invented the quartz watch has almost entirely abandoned digital watches, ceding that territory to fellow ...

Portrait of gymnast Alexandr Dityatin, wearing his gold medal. Bettmann Archive Aleksandr Dityatin, who won eight medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, has died at age 68, according to the International ...

Trump’s theory of politics. The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government. Ever since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, ...

Investors are snapping up gold, pushing the commodity above $4,000 a troy ounce for the first time. WSJ’s David Uberti uses three charts to help explain what’s behind the rush and what could come next ...

The League of Women Voters of Catawba Valley will hold a candidate forum on Tuesday, Oct. 14, for the Hickory mayoral race and the Ward 5 Hickory City Council seat.

Trinity Christian Academy, a new Christian school, is set to open its doors next fall at the site of the old Mount Mourne School in Mooresville.