Hickory

The city of Hickory has reopened its Riverwalk Outerwater Bridge, a pedestrian and cycling bridge that runs over Lake Hickory on the Catawba River. The bridge had been closed since late September after Hurricane Helene damaged a section of its handrail.

The Hickory City Council has voted to abolish the city's public housing authority. The vote at Tuesday night's meeting was unanimous, and it caps months of turmoil within the agency.

The future of the Hickory Public Housing Authority remains uncertain following Tuesday night's meeting of the Hickory City Council. Council members went into closed session when it came time to discuss a resolution to abolish the embattled agency.

The Hickory City Council will meet Tuesday night and discuss a resolution to abolish the city’s public housing authority amid accusations the agency has been failing its tenants.

A fugitive couple wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman in Hickory six months ago were arrested Tuesday in Arizona, federal authorities said.

A North Carolina man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a 7-year-old boy who was fatally struck while riding in a car with his mother in Hickory earlier this week.

A company in the Hickory area helped develop a technology that could make social distancing and coronavirus contact tracing easier. VOLT Wearable Tech, a…

About 60 homes were damaged from an explosion at a hydrogen fuel plant near Hickory on Tuesday, Catawba County officials said.The explosion took place at…

Police in Hickory say a man died after officers used a Taser on him during a struggle Monday.The Hickory Police Department said officers were…

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