NBC News Employees at a North Carolina business said they were held inside for hours on Wednesday as ICE executed a search warrant on the property. According to ICE, roughly a dozen people were taken into custody after the operation at Buckeye Fire Equipment Company in Kings Mountain. Dozens of...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog A South Carolina woman has sued Asheville Academy for Girls, its owner and 15 other related programs and entities, alleging abuse, humiliation, sexual assault, forced labor and false advertising during her mental health treatment as a teen. The 51-page lawsuit, filed June 20 in the U.S....

Paul Woolverton/CityView The City of Fayetteville is in negotiations with a Florida company and other parties to build a long-awaited tower atop the downtown Hay Street parking deck next to Segra Stadium baseball park, a lawyer representing the city said in Cumberland County Superior Court on Monday. At least one...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press With less than two weeks before Yancey County officially exits its regional public library system, opponents to the change are making a last-ditch legal effort to force the county to reverse course. The two-year-long debate over the future of the library in Burnsville began with residents’...

Felicia Sonmez/WFAE Radio Catching a flight out of Asheville Regional Airport? Starting today, you’ll pass through a brand new terminal. After nearly two years of construction, the airport’s sprawling new North Concourse is finally open. The terminal, at 136,000 square feet, has floor-to-ceiling windows, new food and retail options, and...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro A significant project by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority is set to close parts of West Rosemary Street for roughly 18 months starting this fall. The focus of the West Rosemary project is replacing a water main line that’s more than 80 years old. OWASA Capital...

Alexander Bolton/The Hill Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), one of the most vulnerable Senate Republican incumbents facing re-election in 2026, warned Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) bluntly in a private meeting Tuesday that deep cuts to Medicaid could cost Republicans control of the House and Senate, according to a person...

Chris Burritt/Business North Carolina For decades overshadowed by the growth of the Charlotte and Raleigh regions, the Triad has grabbed bragging rights with a string of economic recruiting successes that, according to mayors, intensify challenges for the Piedmont area. “I love talking to my business colleagues from Charlotte and Raleigh...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio When the North Carolina lottery began in 2005, the idea was that all money would go to public education. The public believed the lottery dollars would supplement money already spent on K-12 schools. But over the last two decades, critics say the lottery money has, in part,...

Alice Scott/The Daily Tar Heel  UNC is temporarily pausing all human resource actions while awaiting further guidance on how the campus will implement a new UNC System-wide personnel cap, according to a statement from UNC Media Relations. “The University anticipates more guidance from the UNC System Office this week and...

The Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a dozen NASCAR teams to provide 11 years of financial data to the stock car series as part of an ongoing legal fight but sharply limited what they need to share. A day after hearing arguments from both sides, U.S. District...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that includes multiple controversial LGBTQ policies. Democrats objected to a GOP move to add the proposals to a popular House bill, prompting a heated fight over the Senate’s rules. The original version of House Bill 805 added new consent requirements...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer listened to her constituents’ testimonies, adding that recent cuts at the federal level will likely result in more lives lost during future natural disasters. Nine months after Hurricane Helene, western North Carolina is bracing for another hurricane season. Residents are speaking out about...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog On June 13, the University of North Carolina-Asheville confirmed a rumor that had circulated for months: It plans to build a soccer stadium on the land currently occupied by 45 acres of woods south of its main campus. The plan, developed in collaboration with the amateur soccer...

Evey Weisblat/CityView Yeadon Domes, an international manufacturer of air domes, will begin construction on its Fayetteville facility following the Fayetteville City Council’s approval on Monday of the company’s annexation and rezoning requests. The site is located on more than 14 acres off Airport Road, in the city’s prime industrial area....