Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Canton is finally taking a stand on crypto mining, trailing three years behind Waynesville and Haywood County on taking steps to prevent the controversial facilities. Canton is considering a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining, data center operations and server farms. The moratorium would freeze any applications or...

Caroline Yaffa & Will Doran/WRAL News North Carolinians scrambled to find generators ahead of this weekend’s ice and snow. Now questions are resurfacing about whether the state should adopt laws to better protect the power grid. The answers may lie in other states, such as Texas, which also dealt with...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A judge has upheld a ban on commercial boat slip rentals at the Riverwalk Condominiums, while allowing one downtown tour company to continue operating amid a years-long legal dispute. New Hanover County Superior Court Judge George Jones signed an order maintaining a ban on commercial boat...

Zachery Eanes/Axios On the same day that UNC-Chapel Hill announced it would proceed with developing its Carolina North satellite campus, the town of Chapel Hill also passed a sweeping set of reforms meant to make it easier to build new housing in the town. Why it matters: Local leaders hope...

Katherine Zehnder/The Carolina Journal On Jan. 22, US Rep. Greg Murphy, MD,  R-NC3, introduced the “Buying American Cotton Act,” which would create a tax credit to incentivize the purchase of products made with American-grown cotton. “American cotton growers, especially those in Eastern North Carolina, play a critical role in our...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News In Alamance County, Ivey Broadnax works with young people who may be struggling with mental health issues. Instead of focusing on mental health symptoms or deficits, Broadnax and other “youth partners,” through Vaya Health, want to build positive childhood experiences for the young people they are...

Aaron Beard/The Associated Press The legal fight between Duke and Darian Mensah is over. Now the quarterback can transfer elsewhere after bringing the Blue Devils an unexpected Atlantic Coast Conference title. The school and Mensah’s agency released statements Tuesday confirming they had reached settlement without providing any details. It came...

Glenn H. Burkins/Q City Metro The Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg has announced its endorsements for the Democratic primary elections, scheduled for March 3. Notable was the absence of two long-serving incumbents: Mecklenburg Commissioner Vilma Leak and state Rep. Carla Cunningham. Mecklenburg Sheriff Garry McFadden, who has faced accusations of...

Jose Sandoval/WFAE Radio As Western North Carolinians braced for an incoming winter storm last week, professor Doug Miller and his students in the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences weighed a key question: Should they deploy the weather balloon? Forecasts from the National Weather Service last week...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Wow. Just wow. If you thought Guilford County had its hands full overseeing and funding $2 billion in school bond projects, a new Sheriff’s Office headquarters and lots of other ongoing projects – well, at a Thursday, Jan. 15 work session, county staff unveiled plans for...

Ashley Fredde/NC Health News The number of family caregivers is rising across North Carolina, and so are the financial and health costs borne by the people providing that care, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP in a joint report. Advocates say new Medicaid work requirements could intensify...

Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is calling for a “thorough and impartial investigation” into the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal U.S. Border Patrol agents this weekend, putting him among a small number of Republican lawmakers publicly questioning the...

WRAL News Much of North Carolina endured power outages and dangerous road conditions during the Jan. 24-25, 2026, ice storm. There were hundreds of crashes reported across the state but few reports of serious injuries. Now that the wintry precipitation is over, the focus turns to lingering ice on roads...

Colin Campbell/WUNC News For more than two years, Williamston’s local hospital has sat empty, with a faded banner blocking the entrance that tells people with emergencies to call 911. The closure of Martin General Hospital has meant much longer ambulance rides and big concerns about the state of healthcare in...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Officials with India-based graphite manufacturer Epsilon Advanced Materials recently said the company is re-evaluating the timeline for its proposed Brunswick County facility, which was once slated to break ground early this year. Epsilon CEO Sunit Kapur wrote in an emailed statement that the proposed 1.5-million-square-foot facility is fully...