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 ...

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 ...