Hickory News

In a political year that promises to put North Carolina in the national spotlight, Monday kicks off the election filing date for candidates.

Thomas Sigmon, of West Side Tattoo in Conover, gives April Propst her first tattoo Thursday afternoon.

Why go: Here's a chance to get wet 'n' wild and help Special Olympics of North Carolina.

It didn't take the cops long to track down the couple that robbed a Wells Fargo bank Thursday afternoon.

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Hollar Hosiery Investments plans to renovate the old textile mills to house a brewery, restaurant and event space, and office retail units.

Citizens for Equity in Government, a local group organized to make sure every citizen has a voice in city government, will continue its efforts to educate voters and get petitions signed supporting the change to a pure ward system of government in Hickory on Saturday at 10 a.m. The group will meet with volunteers for an information and ... (more)

The winners of Full Circle Arts "Art About Women" were announced on Thursday, February 2 to an overflow crowd at the gallery's new/old location at 29 Second Street NW in downtown Hickory.

Steve Aaron and John Speagle, longtime Hickory business and civic leaders, were recently honored with Life Member status by the Kiwanis Club of Western Catawba County.

Curtis Lamoureux, a tattoo artist at Devotion Tattoo in Hickory, checks to see if this 20 dollar bill is a counterfeit.

Hickory Police continue to catalog items seized in a multi-state theft ring. Frederick Washburn was charged with 14 felony counts of larceny and possession of stolen goods.

HICKORY, NC - Adam Baker, father of the ten-year-old girl killed and dismembered in Hickory in 2010, has been deported back to Australia, his attorney told WBTV.

Nearly three years after a Conover man was shot in the head and buried in a shallow grave in Burke County, Jonathan Scott Brown is scheduled to appear in court to answer for the murder.

The Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton metropolitan statistical area was called one of the 10 worst cities for finding a job, according to a report released Friday by US News and World Report.

The day after a pair of college campuses was locked down, Hickory police investigators are working to learn why a man showed up at Catawba Valley Community College clutching a pistol and who he is.

Cosmo Motors photographed its Mustang Cobra before theives stole it from the dealership's lot.

The Asheville Fire Department received a letter from the NC Department of Labor following the department's inspection that resulted after the death of Captain Jeff Bowen last July.

HICKORY, NC - A Hickory-area college is under lock down after police say a possible gunman was spotted on campus.

Hickory's financial performance is cause for optimism, but the overall economic outlook still has problems.

Little has changed in the salaries of the employees of Catawba County's three school systems since the Hickory Daily Record requested the information a year ago.