Asheboro

The town of Star’s leaders want to build on the success of an arts facility by finding new uses for the other shuttered textile buildings and historic structures that line Main Street. But while most of Star’s historic buildings are standing strong, the town’s water and sewer infrastructure is showing its age.

Gut microbes isolated in the feces of the “near threatened” southern white rhino species may hold the key to conservation efforts.

The pups will remain behind the scenes as a part of the zoo's red wolf breeding program.

Staff members at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro say they're expecting a shipment of experimental COVID-19 vaccines specially designed for animals this month, allowing them to start vaccinating some of the animals in their care.

A North Carolina high school graduate now has his diploma after a social media uproar over the Mexican flag he wore over his gown.

The newest pups bring the total number of red wolves currently in the North Carolina Zoo’s breeding program to 36. Officials say that makes the pack at the North Carolina Zoo the second-largest in the U.S. after another zoo in Washington state.

North Carolina has a new resident that weighs more than 1,000 pounds.His name is Payton. He is a polar bear.Payton was welcomed to the North Carolina Zoo…