Jane Porter/IndyWeek Following a debate over a longstanding dispute at the Apex Town Council meeting Thursday evening, town leaders still haven’t found a good solution to what they’ve considered to be a significant problem in recent years: an Apex resident operating a for-profit parking lot in a residential area near...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily The reins have been pulled in a little tighter when it comes to regulating ATVs on Carolina Beach. The town council voted 4-1 with council member Joe Benson dissenting at its Nov. 12 meeting to approve text amendments for Chapter 28 Section 28-1 ordinance on beach...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Deepening the Wilmington Harbor would disperse PFAS now mingling in the riverbed’s sediment into marshes and onto public beaches, accelerate erosion, exacerbate flooding, destroy habitat, and is not economically justified, area residents said during a state-hosted public hearing. Many who spoke at the North Carolina Division...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise Election officials will conduct a recount of the close race for Thomasville mayor in which the top two candidates are separated by 17 votes out of more than 2,300 ballots cast. Councilman Jacquez Johnson, the second-place finisher, requested the recount. He had until noon...

Gary D. Robertson & Tim Sullivan/The Associated Press Federal agents expanded their North Carolina immigration crackdown to the Raleigh area on Tuesday, the mayor of the capital city said, as Border Patrol officers carried on with their sweep of the state’s largest city, Charlotte. Speaking at a city council meeting,...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio As U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents continue an immigration enforcement operation across Charlotte, businesses along South Boulevard — one of the city’s main commercial corridors for immigrant communities — are seeing steep drops in customers. Many shops are dark, parking lots sit empty, and some owners...

Allen G. Breed/The Associated Press Marc Simmons hadn’t heard from his estranged friend in nearly seven years. Then, Nigel Max Edge showed up at his work and falsely accused Simmons of stealing his identity. They met taking community college classes and bonded over their time with the Marines in Iraq....

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press A recent wave of staffing changes at the State Board of Elections began with a bill originally intended to make the Moravian star North Carolina’s state star. But as is often the case at the legislature, the final product ended up entirely different. After the state...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The Fayetteville City Council and Cumberland County Board of Commissioners each voted unanimously on Thursday to combine their 911 call centers, but they disagreed on how to govern the consolidated service. At issue: Whether the city and the county would jointly operate the combined call center, or, instead,...

Adam Wagner/WFDD Radio The 10 therapists who work at KM Pediatric Therapy see about 200 kids each week, owner Stephanie Molina told Democratic lawmakers Monday, about 70% of whom are covered by Medicaid. Molina warned Monday that practices like hers that are already being stretched by administrative demands are at...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily The projected multi-million dollar bridge replacements project in one beach town could mean motorists will endure longer waits amid heavier congestion while construction takes place. The Wrightsville Beach Bridge Replacement Committee met on Monday, Nov. 17, to discuss early findings from a traffic impact analysis. The...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Old cars, trucks and abandoned trailers made an eyesore out of a property on Newfound Road outside Canton — but cleaning the property brought more problems. The barren patch of land tucked between Newfound Road and I-40’s exit 33 was acting as an illegal junkyard for...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The City Council on Monday appointed a former colleague to fill an unexpired term on High Point’s governing body. Chris Williams will take over the at-large council seat vacated by Amanda Cook, who resigned after being appointed to a vacancy in the N.C. General Assembly....

Harrison Metzger/Hendersonville Lightning On June 10, 1987, a 7-foot diameter wooden pipe (flume) that carried water from the Lake Summit dam to the Tuxedo Hydro Station burst. The resulting torrent excavated 15,000 cubic yards of dirt and sent it hurdling into the Green River, shutting down the small electric generating...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Shattered glass from U.S. citizen Willy Aceituno’s car window lay in the parking lot of a South Boulevard shopping center after CBP agents broke the window during an encounter on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. As U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents continue an immigration enforcement operation across...