In 1587, a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and the ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old ...

Tobacco has a long history in our region. Early English settlers in Virginia and the Carolinas largely built their economies ...

An ancient map from 400 years ago, known as "La Virginea Pars," may hold the key to solving the mystery of the lost Roanoke ...

Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is ... Archaeologists from the First Colony Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit devoted to Roanoke-related archaeology, set out to ...

Early in the 19th century ... Mississippi, Kentucky and North Carolina. This was a period of voluntary Indian migration, however, and only a small number of Creeks, Cherokee and Choctaws actually ...

The day eventually evolved into what we know it today. In 1886, Groundhog Day was acknowledged for the first time in ...

Colonial governments throughout North ... settlers developed a suspicion of authority and outsiders, antipathy toward government, and enthusiasm for the mounting demands for independence. In the ...

A North Carolina beach destination was recently recognized as one of the most charming small towns in the country. HGTV included Ocracoke Island, at the southern tip of the state’s Outer Banks region, ...

The expected release will keep up the momentum of the fragile ceasefire​ between Israel and the militant Hamas group that ...