Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adapt rather than keep fighting. That was the thinking behind an ambitious and out-of-the-box project by the Battleship North ...

Less than one percent of Americans who served during World War II are still alive today, according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. One of those veterans is here in Wilmington, and he ...

Summary: The North Carolina-class battleships, born from restrictive treaty-era limits, became the backbone of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet. -While the USS North Carolina survived a torpedo hit to ...

(WGHP) — For decades, North Carolina has had the most people who live in rural areas and small towns, and Star, in Montgomery County, was part of that. “In Star, you knew everyone, and everyone knew ...

On Christmas Eve in 1943, the USS North Carolina sat anchored off a tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific, where crewmen tried to make merry in shoebox bunks stacked four high, half a globe away ...

The "Living with Water" project replaced part of the flood-prone parking lot with wetlands and a tidal creek. Since the project's completion, the battleship has experienced no flooding events that ...