West Cabarrus sophomore girls basketball player Jillian Simmons is this week’s Independent Tribune Athlete Spotlight. Last year, the 5-foot-7 Simmons played a key role as a guard for the Wolverines, ...

Statewide there was a record first day of early voting Thursday and in Cabarrus County about 5,700 people voted.

The Oregon football team's decision to exploit a loophole in the rules late in a win over Ohio State is hardly new.

A wave of influencers on TikTok and other social media platforms have started specializing in a trend they call "kindness content," but some critics find the content to be problematic.

He may be the president of a small, landlocked state in central Africa, but Paul Kagame has always had outsize dreams.

The youth e-cigarette rate fell to under 6% this year — the lowest at any point in the last decade — down from 7.7% last year ...

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., listens ...

It would be easy to argue that North Carolina is a red state. We have two United States senators who are Republicans. The majorities in both houses of the state legislature are Republican and the ...

A new public art project is coming to Les Myers Park and the City of Concord wants you to help guide the design.

In an explosive moment during Monday’s Cabarrus County Board of Education meeting, a county commissioner called out a school board member for not being forthright with the public. Commissioner ...

With only a few days until the start of early voting, Cabarrus County Elections Director Carol Soles is gearing up for what she calls her "Super Bowl." She and her staff have been working long ...

A grand jury has indicted both a Georgia teenager and his father after the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder ...