More than a million people visit the North Carolina Zoo every year, and all those visitors create tons of trash. In today’s ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The North Carolina Zoo earned a very special honor this fall. The park is now an accredited botanical garden, one of only a few zoos in the world to receive the status. It ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. — North Carolinians and animal lovers, rejoice! Our very own North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro has been named America's Best Zoo, according to Newsweek’s 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards! This ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Best-selling romance novelist Nicholas Sparks’ new book is based in the Piedmont Triad and already at the top of the New York Times best sellers list. Sparks chose Asheboro as ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Do you want to work alongside elephants and lions? The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro needs to hire hundreds of seasonal workers. FOX8’s Shannon Smith shows us in today’s Zoo ...

The North Carolina Zoo posted to Facebook about seeing another all-white deer on their property. You may remember that in mid-November, the NC Zoo posted about the first all-white deer they saw, a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The busy season ...

Asheboro -- The North Carolina Zoo says it needs $60 million in improvements in the next decade. Zoo officials said Wednesday that some of the facilities at the Asheboro zoo are outdated or ...

ASHEBORO — At the same time the North Carolina Zoo is seeing a huge increase in visitors compared with last year, it's struggling to find staff to keep all of its exhibits open. "Like just about every ...

Pat Simmons, who has led the NC Zoo since 2015, has died, zoo officials said Monday. Pat Simmons, the director and CEO of the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, has died. Zoo officials say Simmons passed ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Known for the sounds of the North Carolina Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Asheboro is discovering a new rhythm through words and ideas. The Sunset Theatre, a historic downtown ...