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Nine candidates, including four incumbents, are running for four of the five council seats.

The year 2022, like most recent years in Catawba County, was a time of growth.

The Catawba County Board of Commissioners heard presentations Wednesday on topics such as school enrollment trends and $13.3 million the county is set to receive through an opioid settlement.

Car-part manufacturing, electronic-parts making and health care are expected to be among the most favorable industries for the Hickory area in the next decade.

Attracting younger people to the Hickory area is a major goal of leaders in Catawba County. Recent data on the aging trends of the community highlight what a tall task

Hickory is becoming much more racially and ethnically diverse, and clear disparities exist between different groups on a spectrum of educational, economic and other metrics.

Hickory City Manager Warren Wood was blunt in his assessment of racial and ethnic inequities in the city.

Hickory City Council Meets In Special & Regular Session Tuesday Hickory City Council Meets In Special & Regular Session Tuesday January 20, 2021 Hickory City Council met in special session Tuesday (January 19) prior to the regular meeting. Taylor Dellinger, the Senior Data Analyst with the Western Piedmont Council Of Governments, presented a study of equity, economic, and demographic data for the City of Hickory. During the regular meeting, minutes, second readings, and the consent agenda were ...

That conclusion is not immediately clear from looking at the data of the last 20 years. Even as the population has increased from roughly 141,700 people in 2000 to nearly 160,000 now, the total workforce has fallen. In 2000, there were nearly 101,900 people employed across all industries in the county, according to state data for the second quarter of that year. The workforce has still not reached its turn-of-the-century peak. The closest it got was when the total number employed surpassed 89,0...