Andrew Howard, Liz Crampton & Elena Schneider/Politico President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Republicans to redraw congressional maps across the country, going as far as weighing a primary challenge to New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte if she continues avoiding a remapping effort in her state. The warning —...

Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat David Jackson, president and CEO of the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce, urged federal officials to broaden disaster aid and put more staff on the ground with small businesses during a U.S. Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing on Hurricane Helene’s fallout. U.S. Sen. Ted...

Ashley Fredde/NC Health News A bill recently sent to Gov. Josh Stein by the North Carolina legislature could be a small step in addressing the state’s housing supply gap. An added benefit: Getting more housing built could improve the state’s fire safety. North Carolina is projected to gain 5 percent...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online It started two weeks ago, when one small, unoccupied house here fell into the ocean, long before two powerful tropical storms were approaching Hatteras Island. But by mid-afternoon Tuesday, shortly before high tide, both hurricanes Humberto and Imelda, while well offshore, had supercharged the ocean off...

Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice On September 19, Currituck County announced that it is developing a Beach Management Plan. The plan follows a five-year Shoreline Stability Assessment study by Coastal Protection Engineering (CPE), the company that will be the consultant for the Beach Management Plan. Currituck County Manager Rebecca Gay indicated...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Two campaign workers for Fayetteville mayoral candidate Mario Benavente filed complaints with the North Carolina State Board of Elections this week following a heated confrontation with an opposing campaign worker and another woman at the county’s early voting site on Monday morning. The complaints accuse Runae Montgomery, a...

Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot With the Board of Education’s ongoing discussions regarding the viability of unarmed security guards and short-staffed school resource officers (SROs), it’s worth examining the history, composition and challenges in hiring officers to fill the ranks of the Moore County Schools Police Department. The board is...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Susan Bean got off the bus a stop or two too late. The bus — the S3, down Hendersonville Road in South Asheville — completes a regular two-hour loop to the airport and back. Bean was hoping to get off at a location where she...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog The Blue Ridge Room, a parquet-floored hall in the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, can accommodate an audience of nearly 500. On a Wednesday night in April, the room had been arranged to fit a crowd about one-third that size. Later, after a couple...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Tensions among Cumberland County Republicans led to a physical altercation at a raucous GOP meeting on Thursday night, and two GOP activists levied misdemeanor assault charges against each other. The intra-party controversy stems from a dispute on whether it was wrong for five Republican leaders in the party,...

Morgan Casey/Border Belt Independent Over a dozen Fayetteville State University School of Nursing students on Tuesday made their way to the front of Seabrook Auditorium’s front lobby. They gathered around Darrell Allison, the university chancellor, and a display easel covered in a black cloth for a big announcement. One student’s...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Louisburg Mayor Christopher Neal thinks there’s about a 95% chance next week’s mayoral election will go to a runoff. If so, the 3,400 some odd-taxpayers in Louisburg, situated in the center of northeastern Franklin County, will be on the hook for up to $10,000 in estimated...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio With a video message on Friday, Gov. Josh Stein announced that he has signed the criminal justice reform bill known as “Iryna’s Law.” The General Assembly passed House Bill 307 in response to the widely publicized stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on board a Charlotte light rail...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The prospective buyer of a long-vacant office building in downtown High Point has cleared a hurdle in its plans to rehabilitate the property. The North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office recently approved architectural plans for the redevelopment of Showplace West at 101 S. Main St....

Sophia Luna/Education NC The governor’s Advisory Council for Student Safety and Well-Being meeting on Sept. 29 included discussions about challenges and opportunities to better support students’ mental health. Gov. Josh Stein formed the council in April with the mission to “propose and further implement solutions to promote school safety and...