Caldwell County News

The political campaigning season in Burke County will pick up soon as the filing period opens at noon Monday.

Leslie Turner collected her $181,279 in winnings Wednesday after she and two others won the Dec.

Work has started on the widening of U.S. 321 through Blowing Rock, a project both dreaded and anticipated for decades, with crews cutting trees and clearing roadsides this week.

The body of a 57-year-old Caldwell County man reported missing last week was found in a drainage pipe near his home.

The body of Ralph Edward "Red" Poarch was found not far from his home where he was reported missing one week ago.

The Caldwell County Fire Marshal's Office is investigating a suspicious fire at a vacant home in the town of Sawmills.

A symposium scheduled in Morganton next month aims to solve the centuries-old mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights, an apparently real scientific phenomenon that's been the subject of science fiction TV and National Geographic programming.

Data center projects 2011: Kings Mountain data center shell building is completed and available for lease.

This sign was posted on the door of Buck's Dollar Store in Granite Falls. Rescue crews in Caldwell County were out Thursday looking for Ralph Edward "Red" Poarch who was last seen Jan.

Glenn Boyette, 36, of Collettsville, was arrested Wednesday by Caldwell County authorities, who said he was operating a large meth lab.

The biological mother of Zahra Baker, the 10-year-old Hickory girl who was murdered in late 2010, has told an Australian TV network that she has no idea what happened to her daughter's remains.

Adam Baker, father of murder victim Zahra Baker, has been deported to Australia with her remains with him, according to news reports from Record media partner WSOC TV.

Two hikers from Charlotte have been found safe in Caldwell County after they became separated from the other members of their group.

A spokeswoman with Orange County Emergency Management said the call came in about 4 p.m. on Hunter's Ridge Road.

Two hikers from Charlotte were found unharmed at around 1 a.m. Sunday after they were separated from their hiking party around noon Saturday in the Wilson Creek area of northwestern Caldwell County.

The incident happened at the Fast Stop on South Main Street around 6:30 Saturday morning.

Authorities are offering a reward for information about the killing of a 32-year-old man whose body was discovered a month ago in a remote, wooded area of Caldwell County.

It was three weeks before Judy Layton came up with the right name for the Yorkie she adopted from the Union County Animal Shelter.

Community complaints about possible drug activity at 5086 Jett Drive in Granite Falls sparked an investigation by the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office's Inner-county Counter-drug Enforcement Unit better known as the ICE Unit.

Chemical-maker Lubremetal Corporation will open a new facility in Caldwell County, creating 19 jobs and investing $1.9 million during the next three years in Granite Falls.