Colin Campbell/WUNC News The Democratic primary in the Triangle’s 4th Congressional District could become a referendum on the party’s approach in Congress to battling the Trump administration. Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term in the seat, but she’s facing a primary challenge from the Durham County commissioner she defeated four years ago. While […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square North Carolina’s Republicans were united with praise and its Democrats unsurprisingly in rejection to the State of the Union on Tuesday night. The 108-minute delivery from second-term Republican President Donald Trump intertwined the nation’s ninth largest state with ties to his policy initiatives, military readiness and the pocketbooks of the more […]
Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline The North Carolina Board of Elections on Wednesday selected a company to upgrade the state’s elections information software. The board voted unanimously to hire ReFrame Solutions, based in Connecticut. ReFrame bid $4.66 million for the job, according to a news release. Six companies bid on the work, and their proposals were vetted […]
Matthew Sockol/WNCN News Four employees at a bar in Chapel Hill are facing charges in connection with a deadly crash in Harnett County that killed three people last week, the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division said Wednesday. The crash on Feb. 14 took the lives of two paratroopers stationed at Fort Bragg, 22-year-old Spc. […]
Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Cumberland County commissioners grappled with a question that has become increasingly urgent across North Carolina: whether the economic upside of billion‑dollar data centers outweighs the pressure they place on local power and water supplies, as well as nearby neighborhoods. Officials stressed throughout a special work session on Thursday that no company is […]
Nick Broadway/WAVY News It was Feb. 3, right after a snowfall, and a cold day to be on a boat taking water, but thanks to quick thinking, a fellow fishing captain was able to get there in a matter of minutes and help make the rescue. Lifelong fisherman Capt. Buddy Callaway brought out the Capt. […]
Josh Shaffer & Chantal Allam/The Raleigh News & Observer When it opened in 2002, Triangle Town Center drew 1,500 shoppers before sunrise, all of them eager to browse the state’s first Saks Fifth Avenue, gawk at the mall’s 18-foot indoor waterfall and stroll down the artificial river that burbled alongside Ted’s Montana Grill. Raleigh’s boosters […]
Sarah Krueger/WRAL News Nonprofit CJF America President Kristen Picot was found guilty on Wednesday of one count of a simple worthless check charge. A judge found Picot not guilty of two other counts of issuing a simple worthless check. The judge dismissed a fourth count of the same charge because an alleged victim was not […]
Katie Myers & Laura Hackett/Grist & NC Health News Regina is haunted by the specter of mold. She found the insidious spores in the closet, behind the refrigerator, and around the bathtub for two years after the dishwasher flooded her apartment in Asheville, North Carolina. The infestation only got worse after Hurricane Helene. Rainwater rushed […]
Durham officials canceled a hearing on a top-to-bottom zoning-law rewrite this week after the owners of a convenience-store chain complained they were about to break the state’s ban on downzoning. The rewritten “land development code” had been scheduled for a planning-board review Tuesday afternoon and evening. But in the face of a warning letter from […]
House District 27 incumbent Rep. Rodney Pierce and his Democratic Party primary opponent, former Rep. Michael Wray, are both well-funded but are going about things in different ways. Pierce, D-Halifax, told the State Board of Elections he’s raised $157,388 so far in the 2025-26 election cycle. Wray, D-Northampton, has raised only $18,023 this cycle. But […]
Town officials in a tiny Edgecombe County community fell victim to “a common foreign scam” in the course of losing their grip on the use of the town’s bank accounts, State Auditor Dave Boliek and his aides say. Leaders of the town of Speed failed to notice for several months that “numerous, unauthorized transactions” were […]
Nick Sullivan & Desiree Mathurin/The Charlotte Observer Charlotte City Council committed to vote on a 60-day pause on the Interstate 77 toll lane project as a raucous crowd demanded action during Monday night’s meeting. Council members are in near unanimous agreement to stop the project, at least temporarily. They’ll take a formal vote during next […]
Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Residential and commercial projects requiring new sewer line extensions in Brunswick County are effectively stalled as state regulators apply a new wastewater capacity calculation, counting future development flow as already in the system. Since November, Brunswick County has requested the state freeze several new sewer extension permits to avoid automatic rejections […]
Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News Teenagers in some North Carolina juvenile detention centers are spending nearly the entire day locked in their cells — sometimes allowed out for only one or two hours — according to a yearlong review of the state’s 13 juvenile detention centers by Disability Rights North Carolina. In a 52-page report published […]
