USA TODAY’s 2025 Restaurants of the Year celebrates the South’s most exciting and storied dining destinations. Chosen by our team of food writers who live and work in the communities they cover, it ...

Here are six other spots that we wish were on this year’s Restaurants of the Year list. Pensacola restaurant named one of ...

Police found 35-year-old Hickory resident Jessica Marie Benge with a non-life threatening gunshot wound in the parking lot of ...

HICKORY, NC – A woman is accused of shooting another woman during a fight outside a Waffle House in Hickory. Police were called to the restaurant on Highway 321 NW around 3am on Sunday, February 9, ...

Shortly before 3 a.m. on Sunday, the fight occurred outside the Waffle House restaurant on Highway 321 Northwest in Hickory.

If you’re anywhere near Durham – heck, if you’re anywhere in North Carolina – you owe it to yourself to make the pilgrimage ...

Gastonia is one of a handful of North Carolina cities to see a popular fast food restaurant on the horizon. Whataburger will ...

What: Diners on their way into Hickory Ridge Restaurant and other local eateries that serve birds are in for an earful on ...

“Nobody complains about the townhomes,” Ron Mathews said. “We just complained about the parking and the flow of traffic. That ...

Obviously, we would like for that to happen,” said Morganton City Manager Sally Sandy. “I still think it's a good location ...

Interim Hickory Public Housing Authority Executive Director Anthony Starr said no severance has been paid to former CEO Alanda Richardson. Starr said the housing authority's attorney advised against ...