Steve Ohnesorge

The playground area at the Martin Luther King Center in Lenoir is off limits to everyone after a fox was found living just feet away. And it’s not just any fox - it’s a rare Silver Fox.

The N.C. Highway Patrol is still investigating an accident that happened Tuesday morning where a man walking along US Highway 321 in Caldwell County was struck and killed.

The old videos are grainy and black and white but it never gets old looking at the moon landing archives say people in the town of Rhodhiss. It was at the old Burlington plant where fabric was made that eventually wound up as the American Flag planted on the moon by Apollo 11 Astronauts.

A fire overnight destroyed a 450-foot long chicken house building and killed about 11,000 chickens.

A month after an 18-year-old woman was gunned down in a driveway the 911 calls in the case have been released.

Officials say a Morganton man will serve an active prison term of 28 to 43 months after his conviction for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a Burke County firefighter.

A lot of work is ahead if the Moretz Football Stadium at Lenoir Rhyne University is to be ready for the football team’s home opener in September.

A fire at a boarding house a block off of downtown Newton Monday sent 22 residents running and has shut the place down for the time being. The fire was an accident, said investigators, and started when there was an electrical short in a boom box type radio.

Fourth of July celebrations for some people did not include parades or cookouts. Instead, they went to places like the Hickory Aviation Museum.

Just three weeks after serious flooding damaged homes along the shores of Lookout Shoals Lake in Catawba County, Duke Energy is advising residents to be watching for high water again.

With disaster declarations from the State of North Carolina and the U.S. Small Business Administration in place, recovery centers opened Tuesday in Charlotte and in Catawba County.

A popular business in a nearly 100-year-old building in downtown Blowing Rock was heavily damaged by fire on Wednesday afternoon.Fire broke out in side Bless Your Heart, located at the corner of Maple and Main Streets at around 5:00 pm.

When peach trees started blooming in February in Lincoln County, many growers feared the worst. A hard freeze from that point on could have spelled disaster for the the 2019 crop. Not this year.

The children’s mother, 38-year-old Maria Calderon, is still missing, but officials believe she is deceased and her body may be somewhere in the Catawba River.

Two children found dead inside a burning home in Alexander County were identified Tuesday as 11-year-old Angel E. Pacheco and his 13-year-old sister America D. Pacheco.

The teams were making dollar estimates of the damage they were finding. The total will be turned over to the state as North Carolina officials determine whether a disaster declaration should be made.

It happened about 6:15 a.m. on Tuesday. Fire investigators believe a line from the propane tank outside must have developed a leak inside the home.

The hardest hit area for mudslides is Elk Creek Road near Deep Gap. There’s several minor slides and one mountain of mud that came down the hillside. The big slide has the road inundated.

The judge on Wednesday read the charge of murder to the man and told him the maximum possible penalty, if convicted, could be the death penalty.

Two people who authorities say were involved in a drug ring bringing Fentanyl from Charlotte to Lenoir pleaded guilty to supplying the drug to two people who died from it.

In some cases, they wander into populated areas, even downtowns.

Officials have found the person of interest who is accused of stealing a vehicle connected to a homicide in Catawba County.

A petition drive has started and the company has vowed on Facebook that when it comes to the request to take the flag down, “We won’t do it.”

Hickory police say a man and a woman have gone to bank ATM’s in towns along Interstate 40 and have stolen money out of at least 8 people’s accounts.

The Burke County High School band was invited by organizers of the 75th D-Day Anniversary celebrations.

With temperatures expected in the mid-90s, officials say any fire can be dangerous for firefighters.

Avery County officials are expecting a lot of people to come up the mountains as a heat wave moves into the foothills and piedmont this weekend. Many will go to places like Elk River Falls and that concerns authorities.

A long-awaited construction project is well underway now as the university replaces seven residence halls. Two new ones are being built now in what was a massive parking lot next to the football stadium.

Unfortunately, the summer season is generally when donations drop and need rises. It’s why the Red Cross is trying to organize blood drives every day in the Charlotte area.

Five and a half years after a man was shot and killed the day after Christmas in Lenoir, a woman will go to trial on charges she murdered him.