Raleigh firefighters battled a fire at an apartment complex in the 9000 block of Prince George Lane on Friday. The fire started on the porch of a rear, second-floor apartment, burned down through the porch floor to the first floor, then spread from there, officials said.

Forecasters say the Atlantic could see another above-normal hurricane season in 2017. Forecasters predicted 11-17 named storms, five to nine hurricanes and two to four hurricanes could be "major" with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.

Five people, including two children, were killed and four others were injured in a fiery crash involving multiple vehicles on Interstate 95 Tuesday afternoon. Pictures from Chopper 11 HD showed there were at least 3 tractor-trailer trucks and 3 smaller vehicles involved.

Flooding continues to create problems in eastern North Carolina, more than a week after heavy rains fell across much of the state. Some homes and businesses are evacuating in Kinston as the flooding is expected to be as bad as during Hurricane Fran in 1996.

People in North Carolina are paying attention to rising rivers after storms dumped several inches of rain across much of the state. Gov. Roy Cooper warned residents on Tuesday to stay wary after the state’s heaviest rainfall since last year’s Hurricane Matthew.

Hurricane Matthew, which is estimated to have caused $150 million in economic losses in Canada alone and killed more than 600 in the Western hemisphere, set several records, Impact Forecasting LLC said in a report released Monday.

The claim costs and other metrics of 18 state workers’ compensation systems are analyzed in depth in a new series of studies, CompScope™ Benchmarks, 17th Edition, released by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).

Leading travel insurance trends aren’t just focused on hurricanes and illness anymore. A considerable number of traveler inquiries are now seeking to make certain that they are protected against losses from terrorism, too.

A Wake County school bus was involved in a crash along Ponderosa Service Road south of Falls of Neuse and Capital Boulevard early Wednesday. Pictures from the scene showed students being cared for by EMS workers and then loaded into ambulances.

Instead of celebrating what would’ve been Rachel Rosoff’s 18th birthday, her family was filing a lawsuit inside Wake County Superior Court blaming Rachel’s electrocution and drowning on the alleged shoddy repair work of two Raleigh companies.

Employees at a North Carolina animal hospital quickly jumped into action to help pets and customers after a client crashed into the business office.

Lightning sparked a Huntersville house fire during Tuesday evening storms, the Huntersville Fire Department says. The Long Creek Fire Department tweeted that flames were "through the roof" after a lightning strike.

A crash that killed two people and injured others on Interstate 85 near East Club Boulevard in Durham Monday morning was caused by a wrong-way driver.

Though convenient, automotive transportation can be deadly. Over 35,000 people lost their lives in traffic accidents in 2015 (the last full year available), and more than 30,000 fatalities occur annually.

On Friday, the meteorology community was riding a major high as stunningly high-definition images came in from the nation’s newest and much-anticipated earth observation satellite. The high came crashing down that evening, though, as the first hints of significant cuts to the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began to emerge.