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Every fall, thousands of raptors cruise above Western North Carolina on the thermals rising up from the Blue Ridge and the Brushy Mountains on their annual migration south. And every fall, a flock of dedicated volunteers camps out in a small field to count every hawk passing over a busy neighborhood in Lenoir — about 70 miles north of Charlotte as the crow, or, rather, the hawk, flies.

More than 300 migrating chimney swift birds hit the windows of the NASCAR Hall of Fame around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. Many of them have died, and it's…

A bad wreck this week is bringing new urgency to discussions about how the city should regulate electric rental scooters, which appeared on city streets…

Officials with the scooter and bike rental company Lime say they thought they had the support of city leaders when they introduced their electric scooters…