Virginia Bridges/The (Raleigh) News & Observer   Two weeks after Cumberland County Sheriff’s Capt. Adam Bean was found shot to death at a Hope Mills home, officials will only say it involved a domestic dispute between two off-duty law enforcement officers. For Cumberland County and most others, this is out...

Mike Catalini & Jonathan J. Cooper/The Associated Press Democrats are boasting of eye-popping fundraising hauls in some of this year’s top Senate contests, a potential sign of voter enthusiasm in what remains an uphill quest to win the Senate majority. In the first three months of the year, Texas Democratic...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Brad Hoxit made history last month, but not in a way he’d ever have hoped. Hoxit appeared in Graham County Superior Court from March 24-27 for a hearing to determine whether he would be permanently removed as sheriff of the small Western North Carolina county. Last...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily Bald Head Island is on its way to gaining the village’s very first arcade, but not everyone is stoked about the proposal. In a special meeting on April 13, the Bald Head Island Planning Board held a quasi-judicial hearing for a special use permit granting Stoked...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education tabled a vote on the local budget request Tuesday night as members consider how much to ask county commissioners for. Teachers and staff rallied outside the WS/FCS education building ahead of the board’s meeting. They held signs urging members to...

Cameron Blue/The High Point Enterprise A day after Thomasville City Schools Superintendent Quincy Williams announced his resignation, the board of education on Tuesday approved a resolution urging the N.C. General Assembly to pass a budget for the 2027 fiscal year. The school system receives roughly 55.9% of its funding from...

Will Atwater/NC Health News Tropical Storm Helene’s impact on western North Carolina was felt acutely in the days, weeks and months after the storm, including in the region’s hospitals and clinics. New research shows how pregnant patients and people with anxiety and other health issues turned to emergency departments for...

Will Doran & Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News State lawmakers voted Wednesday to advance a proposed constitutional amendment that would give the state more control over how much cities and counties can raise property taxes. “The question this committee is answering is whether North Carolinians should be protected from continual, unsustainable, unpredictable...

Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi/The Raleigh News & Observer The North Carolina State Health Plan has scrapped its initial search for a new health insurer to serve as its administrator after no bidders met minimum requirements, resetting the search process for a program covering over 500,000 state employees, retirees and dependents....

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView The Fayetteville City Council narrowly voted Monday to pause its work on a proposed data center ordinance and instead seek more information about a possible data center moratorium—a decision reached after a heated debate and amid loud, organized public opposition. The move places Fayetteville squarely inside a...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh After hitting the doldrums in the years after the pandemic, demand for office space in the Triangle and Charlotte appears to be picking up momentum. Why it matters: Vacancy rates at office towers from downtowns to suburban office parks spiked after the pandemic as companies downsized and...

WWAY News Lower Cape Fear LifeCare has named Karen Brubaker Miller as its next president and chief executive officer following a national search. According to LifeCare, Brubaker Miller will become only the fourth CEO in the organization’s 46-year history, succeeding Gwen Whitley. The organization said its board of directors partnered...

Kimberly King/WLOS News Asheville leaders, business owners and community partners gathered at The Orange Peel on Tuesday, April 14, for the annual State of Downtown, as the area faces ongoing challenges following Helene and a $30 million budget shortfall. Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer addressed the crowd of nearly 300 people...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Nearly half of all people detained by federal immigration agents during “Operation Charlotte’s Web” last November had no criminal record, according to new data obtained by the Deportation Data Project. The records show that 402 people were arrested in North Carolina during the first week of the...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A review of the state’s juvenile detention centers by a state advocacy group, which concluded with a report in February, revealed excessive use of solitary confinement at multiple facilities, even though the practice is banned in North Carolina. One mountain county juvenile facility was forced to...