The Associated Press Video game maker Epic Games has reached a “comprehensive settlement” with Google that could end its 5-year-old legal crusade targeting Google’s Play Store for Android apps. Epic and Google revealed the settlement agreement in a joint legal document they filed in a San Francisco federal court Tuesday....

David A. Lieb/The Associated Press The new congressional map that California voters approved marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election. But Republicans are still ahead in the fight. The unusual mid-decade redistricting fray began this summer when President Donald...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News When the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina began renovating its Sandhills branch in 2023, the nonprofit did not expect the project’s completion to coincide with the threat of a national hunger crisis. The $1 million overhaul of the Moore County facility, which also...

Caroline Parker/Education NC Dr. Tabitha Miller went to 13 different K-12 schools growing up. Her father was a traveling evangelist, preaching at tent revivals across the Midwest. Her mother told stories of watching tornados form on the Great Plains while they were staying in Kansas. They lived a long stretch...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily Aerosol spray, nearly hour-long speeches, and neighborly disputes have all been part of recent public comment periods at the Southport Board of Aldermen meetings. Now, the aldermen are taking a step in the direction of restoring civility. On Monday, the aldermen voted 5 to 1 (Lowe...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The steady loss of workers who keep Waynesville’s water running and streets clean has town leaders on edge. At the Oct. 28 meeting, council heard grim numbers and took action, voting to fund a pay study meant to stop an exodus that’s led to tremendous turnover...

Outer Banks Voice Retired Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett has announced his candidacy for the District 1 seat in the NC Senate. That seat is currently held by Republican Bobby Hanig, who is running for Congress next year in a reconfigured First Congressional District. This past May, Tillett retired from...

Christopher Long/The Wilson Times The Wilson Planning and Design Review Board unanimously voted in favor of approving two rezoning requests for future residential projects during Tuesday night’s monthly meeting. Board members approved rezoning 115.48 acres along U.S. Highway 264 Alternate West between Wilson and Sims to develop a conditional low-density...

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline A plurality of North Carolinians hold President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress responsible for the federal government shutdown, a new Catawba College-YouGov poll found, but Democrats and “all elected officials” are also taking blame. Asked who they think is “most responsible for the current...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio For the first time in years, going back to the onset of the pandemic, North Carolina saw more child care programs close than open this August. “That is extremely worrisome,” said Amy Cubbage, president of the North Carolina Partnership for Children and the statewide Smart Start network....

Michelle Crouch/Charlotte Ledger & NC Health News Atrium Health’s new surgical training center in Charlotte is off to a fast start. In just six weeks, IRCAD North America has brought in 932 health care providers from 14 countries for training, said Rasu Shrestha, chief innovation and commercialization officer at Advocate...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise What was to be a routine court hearing on the bond that former state legislator Cecil Brockman needs to post to get out of jail turned boisterous Monday as Brockman repeatedly said that “lies are being told” about him. A key point argued between...

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice Acknowledging that they’ve received numerous inquiries about the governor declaring a State of Emergency after the recent house collapses in Buxton, Dare County officials stated that such a declaration is not a viable option during the Nov. 3 Commissioners meeting. The issue of declaring a State...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Henderson County commissioners will have to decide how to salvage the Edneyville sewer project, which was defunded last week by the state Legislature — or whether to go forward at all. An idea years in the making, the project is already under contract, thanks to a vote...

Port City Daily UNCW’s annual tallying of crime statistics was released last week, with reports trending upward in several categories, including rape, dating violence and  stalking, along with drug and liquor offenses. The report, which compiles data from 2024, shows on-campus rapes totalled 14, up two from 2023 but down...