Four colleges in North Carolina are ranked among the country's best values in private higher education.

Conservationists and business leaders are taking sides as the state's utilities pitch several new power plants, both coal- and nuclear-powered.

South Carolina employers who attended a Wednesday training session on the state's new law to stem illegal immigration said complying should be painless.

A South Carolina state trooper caught on video trying to run down a suspect with his patrol car is expected to plead guilty to a federal civil rights charge, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue is dialing down some expectations for her first year in office due to the economy and the Legislature.

Thousands of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools employees today receive forms they must sign authorizing the school district to conduct criminal background checks on them.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is moving his state of the state speech up a week and out of the shadow of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.

South Carolina's top tax collection officer said Wednesday he'll manage budget cuts without layoffs that would leave some scofflaws with fewer audit fears.

Actor Andy Griffith will again usher in a new North Carolina governor.