ProPublica & The Assembly Slogging through a thick slop of mud and rock, Brian Hill passed the roof that Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters had just ripped off someone’s barn and dumped into his yard. Then he peered into the unrecognizable chaos inside what had been his family’s dream home. The century-old...

Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald A former Harnett County commissioner said he plans to run for the Republican nomination for state Senate in District 12, which includes Harnett and Lee counties and small part of Sampson County east of Dunn. Timothy McNeill, 68, told the Sanford Herald that it’s time...

Ronny Reyes/New York Post The madman who “targeted” a crowded dockside restaurant in a “highly premeditated” mass shooting in North Carolina once identified himself as a wounded Iraq veteran and filed a slew of conspiracy-laden lawsuits earlier this year, according to authorities and records. Nigel Edge — who​ changed his...

Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio A judge is considering Duke Energy’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by the town of Carrboro. The town filed suit last December, claiming the utility giant engaged in a public deception campaign for decades to dismiss concerns around climate change, all while allegedly knowing...

Claudia Rivera Cotto/Enlace Latino NC & NC Health News At L. Gilbert Carroll Middle School in Robeson County, Principal Zach Jones watches the lunch line carefully, ensuring every student gets a tray. Many arrive hungry; breakfast and lunch at school may be the only meals they can count on. “Every...

Jesse Deal/The Stanly News & Press      On Monday night, the Stanly County Board of Education and the Stanly County Board of Commissioners met in Albemarle for a special-called joint session to discuss a grant application that could fund major facility improvement projects. The meeting focused on Stanly County Schools’ plan...

Henry Taylor/WCHL Chapelboro UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and Board of Trustees Chair Malcolm K. Turner spoke with members of the media following the university’s BOT meeting at the Carolina Inn on Thursday, Sep. 25. They answered questions on a number of issues facing the university, including performance-based funding, Carolina football’s...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The owner of the construction company that abandoned several city construction projects in Fayetteville made a $1,000 donation to Mayor Mitch Colvin in August 2021, state election records show. City Council Member Mario Benavente, who is one of nine candidates attempting to unseat Colvin in this year’s mayoral...

Rachel Crumpler & Taylor Knopf/NC Health News In early September, video of a man stabbing 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on a light rail car in Charlotte shocked the country. People from across the political spectrum demanded answers: How does a horrific, unprovoked attack occur between two strangers?...

Jay Price/WUNC Radio Major changes are coming for the North Carolina National Guard. But so far nothing related to the Trump Administration’s controversial use of guard troops in Democrat-led cities. As part of an ongoing Army-wide transformation, the state guard’s largest unit, the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, will be...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press On a mild late-summer afternoon in September, 86-year-old Tom Westall watered the flowers newly planted in the median on Locust Street in downtown Spruce Pine in Mitchell County. “I love watching things grow,” said Westall, a lifelong Spruce Pine resident whose family operated Westall’s Food Market...

Laura Hackett/WFAE Radio Amy Slusher, a server at Taco Billy, says the trauma from Hurricane Helene has rewired her nervous system. The sensation feels like a “very thin veil” of an “alternate reality,” she said. “What it used to be and what it is now are so very intertwined.” She’s...

Allen G. Breed & Brittany Peterson/The Associated Press Bracing himself against the current in waist-deep water, Clancy Loorham wrestles a broken length of PVC pipe from the rocky bottom of the French Broad River and peers inside. “I got a catfish in the pipe,” the 27-year-old with wispy beard and...

Carly Haynes, WRAL News WakeMed is warning patients on Wednesday that those with UnitedHealthcare as their insurance provider could lose coverage at the hospital if the two sides do not reach a contract agreement. The health care provider signed a contract with the insurance provider to cover patients under UnitedHealthcare...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily After two weeks of waiting to finalize the vote and a night full of public disagreement, the Wilmington City Council moved forward with an anti-camping ordinance though councilmembers’ changes from the last meeting prompted the ordinance’s implementation to again be delayed another week. However, the council...