The director and CEO of the North Carolina Zoo died Monday morning after a nearly five-year battle with cancer, the zoo announced. Pat Simmons had led the zoo since 2015. “To know Simmons was to love ...

Simmons directed the planning for the 12.5-acre Asia exhibit, the zoo’s first expansion in three decades. It’s scheduled to ...

Headlines across the state include a WNC tourism campaign in the wake of Helene; the state joins suit to unfreeze federal education funds; legal action is ...

The North Carolina Zoo has announced the death of Director and CEO Pat Simmons.Zoo officials say that she had been battling ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, around 11:20 p.m., officers said the suspect, identified as Terros Drayton, 34, went to the 1700 block of ...

A Graham man was arrested on Monday after a firefighter was injured in a building fire on Friday, according to a Mebane ...

Germany’s highest court on Tuesday rejected a case brought by Yemeni plaintiffs who argued the German government failed in a ...