Rural counties pocket most of the cash as North Carolina protects habitat for 68 rare species statewide.

The land links to Triangle Land Conservancy's Williamson Preserve and holds a rare plant species found in a recent survey.

Rasa Love says she and the gator “surprised each other” on her Spring Glen Court porch before police hauled it away.

River Forest, Old Farm Road, and American Village parks are swapping old equipment for inclusive playgrounds; River Forest and Old Farm Road also include flood-ready designs.

Firefighters, animal control officers and public works crews teamed up for hours to free the trapped deer in Cary.

Crews repaved drainage, guardrails and overlooks from Doughton Park to Grandfather Mountain. The fix targets years of wear on one of North Carolina’s busiest scenic drives.

A net-like play structure called Ground Discovery is winning over Raleigh council members for downtown's Moore Square.

A cardboard coyote near a busy Cary intersection had drivers dialing 911 — it was just a goose deterrent.

BirdCast tracked a single-night migration surge over Wake County as migratory bird species around the world continue to decline.

Nearly 200 unconfirmed sightings have piled up near Emerald Isle and Wilmington, and nobody's sure how the crabs got there.

Free watch parties in Chapel Hill and Durham let families watch thousands of swifts pour into a centuries-old tree or a bank chimney at sunset.

All eight courts at Flaherty Park are fenced off as crews tear out asphalt and add pickleball lines. The town is also chasing a $200,000 USTA grant to help pay for it.

Three zoo-born red wolf pups now roam North Carolina's wild, part of a swap that sent four wild pups back to Missouri.