Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A recent political cartoon in a local paper has one Pender County commissioner feeling fearful for his life. However, the newspaper’s publisher says the commissioner is misinterpreting the image and its intent. At the Pender County Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday, Sept. 15, Commissioner Jerry...

Sarah Nagem/Border Belt Independent Jarrod Lowery, a Republican who has represented Robeson County in the N.C. House since 2022, said he is leaving the state legislature next month to take a job with the Trump administration. Lowery told the Border Belt Independent on Saturday that Trump appointed him to a...

Helen Chickering/Blue Ridge Public Radio A FEMA funding announcement this week led many to believe the iconic Lake Lure Flowering Bridge would be rebuilt — but town officials now say that’s not the case. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Tim Moore, R-14th District, issued a press release relaying a FEMA grant...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Lake Logan has some new geographic features thanks to Helene — including an island of sediment, a widened river bed upstream and 4,000 feet of failing banks. But new funding from the state’s Department of Environmental Quality could help revitalize the lake while turning waterway debris...

Nancy McCleary/Sanford Herald The Lee County commissioners unanimously gave the OK on Monday for school officials to apply for a grant to partially fund the cost of building a new elementary school. If the Needs-Based Public School Capital Fund request is approved, the county would pay $14,242,470 toward the total...

Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio A bucolic 342 acres between downtown Asheville and Leicester is one step closer to becoming Buncombe County’s newest park. At last night’s Buncombe County Commission meeting, staff shared that by the end of the year, it plans to finalize the purchase of Deaverview Mountain at...

Richard Holm/Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald The Scotland Neck Police Department has cut all part-time positions due to budgetary reasons, and that has raised questions about the state of the agency. According to a letter recently sent out from Chief Austin Holland, the SNPD administration made the decision to cut all...

Elizabeth Ouzts/Canary Media In small communities across North Carolina, data centers are already sparking conflict over land use, water use, and quality of life. Now, the debate over the facilities’ voracious need for electricity — and whether it can be met with clean sources — is heating up in the...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio PBS North Carolina has begun laying off employees this week in response to the elimination of federal funding for public media. It’s unclear how many staffers at the statewide public TV network are losing their jobs, or which positions have been cut. Sources familiar with the situation...

Aaron Beard/The Associated Press Fourteen former N.C. State male athletes have filed a civil lawsuit in state court alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack’s former director of sports medicine, expanding a case that began with a federal lawsuit from a single athlete three...

WRAL News A local attorney is charged with embezzling over $1 million from his Johnston County law firm and various clients he represented, including more than $710,000 from an older adult. Korey Kiger, 36, of Raleigh, faces multiple counts of felony embezzlement and one felony count of exploiting an older...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily After years of community pressure, Brunswick County has taken a formal step toward extending a new water line to the North Mulberry Road neighborhood. The Brunswick County Commissioners unanimously approved applying for a Community Development Block Grant-Infrastructure (CDBG-I) grant to help fund a water line extension...

Haylee Kennedy/CBS 17 News The Raleigh Fire Department is searching for new recruits, because as the city expands so too does the need for more firefighters, department officials said. “You see something different pretty much everyday,” Assistant Chief of Personnel development, Brian Scherrill said. For Scherrill its been a rewarding...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog Nearly 40 employees connected to North Carolina’s Medicaid Ombudsman program, including nine at Pisgah Legal Services, will lose their jobs by the end of the year because of a $33 million shortfall in the state’s Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Fund. The Medicaid Ombudsman program, which connects...

Ely Portillo/WFAE Radio Charlotte City Council member Marjorie Molina conceded her loss in the District 5 Democratic primary to challenger J.D. Mazuera Arias, after a recount this week confirmed he beat her by 34 votes. In a video posted Thursday, she thanked her supporters and said the outcome is clear....