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....

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro Emily Baragwanath loves her backyard. In fact, the yard and trees bordering the property line were major factors that led her to move from elsewhere in Chapel Hill’s Glen Lennox neighborhood to the first block of Oakwood Drive a few years ago. But now knowing a grocery...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The weather is starting to cool here in North Carolina, bringing with it the joys of fall. There’s just one thing that could ruin your pumpkin spice latte, apple picking and hay rides: coming down with the flu or COVID-19. This year, there could be...

Jay Price/WUNC Radio A flurry of public and private sector dealmaking in recent weeks has raised the profile of a family of minerals that are crucial for much of modern technology. And for national security — which is a big reason for all the deals. Most of the world’s supply...

Will Atwater/NC Health News Mid-September signals the soon-to-arrive familiar fall rhythms: leaves preparing to turn from green to gold and crimson, pumpkin spice flavors reappearing on menus and migratory birds filling the skies. Along with these seasonal markers comes a more troubling one — the likely spread of highly pathogenic...

Will Doran/WRAL News Top North Carolina officials are closely watching contract negotiations between Duke Health and health insurance company Aetna — which are now heating up, with barely a month left to salvage a deal — over fears the outcome could lead to higher insurance costs for state employees or...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County is still waiting on $15.2 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency almost a year after Helene. Only $623,000 of the total $15.8 million spent on recovery efforts so far has been reimbursed by the federal agency, according to Haywood County’s Finance Director Kristian...

Daneen Khan/The Daily Tar Heel Last May, UNC Professor Philip Berke received an email from Kristi Noem, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Berke is the director of UNC’s Center for Resilient Communities and Environment (CRCE). In the email, he learned that two of the Center’s research...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog A Mission Hospital cardiac patient died in late July after becoming disconnected from telemetry monitoring for at least an hour, and hospital administration repeatedly refused to hold an emergency meeting requested by union nurses about the incident, according to union leaders and emails obtained by Asheville...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News When the Pactiv Evergreen paper mill in Canton closed after more than a century of operations in June 2023, the shockwaves went far beyond the hundreds of workers who lost their jobs. The closure of the 115-year-old plant left behind an enormous industrial footprint in the...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press A federal appeals court has ruled that a North Carolina law that made it a crime for felony offenders who vote before they have completed their sentences without knowing they were breaking the law is unconstitutional. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of...