Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline The Republican-led group RightCount Action is running an ad in major television markets opposing GOP Judge Jefferson Griffin’s attempts to discard votes in his race. The ad features Moore County voter James Danz, a registered Republican who says that he voted for President Donald Trump and Griffin....

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board members and district leaders met with local legislators this week. But while education officials pitched the need for statewide systemic change, representatives said they were there to talk money — not philosophy. School district representatives arranged the meeting on Wednesday in part to...

Felicia Sonmez/Blue Ridge Public Radio Inside the former United Methodist Church in downtown Swannanoa, local business owners from across Western North Carolina shared their at-times tearful stories of loss, resilience and determination as a crowd including many prominent elected officials looked on. The event, hosted last week by the Asheville...

Tomas Murawski/The Alamance News Tuesday night’s snowstorm put the kibosh on what was supposed to have been the first regularly-scheduled meeting of Alamance County’s commissioners since before Christmas. But aside from its import to the commissioners, this gathering had also been something like the equivalent of D-Day for a number...

Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald Sanford has had an “unprecedented increase in rezoning approvals” over the past five years, but the number of homes has not increased proportionately. That’s the word from Marshall Downey, the city’s planning director. He addressed the city council about the issue during a work session...

Randy Foster/Cherokee Scout The Cherokee County Board of Education is expecting to propose a school consolidation plan after its next meeting Feb. 6. The board will have a workshop at 4 p.m. before the 5:30 p.m. regular meeting to discuss three consolidation proposals put forth by school board members Steve...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Charlotte Area Transit System on Wednesday released four new scenarios of how it could spend billions of dollars from a proposed one-cent sales tax — specifically which new train lines could be built and which ones couldn’t. Almost five years after Charlotte and CATS started working...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC The State Board of Community Colleges discussed the N.C. Community College System’s (NCCCS) legislative agenda for the 2025 long session at its meeting last week, which includes the system’s primary ask of funding for Propel NC. The system is asking lawmakers for nearly $100 million to...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Scores of waterfront property owners in Mecklenburg County are slowly moving forward with government programs to acquire or elevate their homes almost four months after Tropical Storm Helene, and later Duke Energy, upended their lives. Despite Charlotte being more than 100 miles away from the storm’s...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press The North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a request by the trailing candidate in an extremely close race for a seat on this same court to rule now on whether well over 60,000 ballots should be removed from the tally. Instead, the justices ordered...

Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer An effort to enact tougher new building standards in flood-prone areas in Waynesville is quickly losing steam. Town council last week held off on a proposal aimed to protect homeowners from future floods and make the town more resilient from heightened flooding. The sticking point with...

Santiago Ochoa/WFDD Radio When was the last time you went to the doctor? When did you last get a cancer screening? Those are the types of questions Dr. David Henao is used to asking patients on a daily basis. As a manager of equity and research at Novant Health, a...

Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times The city has selected a service provider for the newly minted Business Improvement District, which levies an additional tax on downtown property owners to fund supplemental services, like enhanced cleaning and a team of “community connectors.” The January vote came with relatively little fanfare — a...

Brian Murphy/WRAL News North Carolina and football coach Bill Belichick have made it official, releasing a signed employment agreement Thursday that could end the swirling speculation about the legendary NFL coach returning to the league this off-season. The school released a term sheet at the time of Belichick’s hiring that...

Wes Platt/SouthPoint Access The massive new Brickworks project is moving forward with Durham City Council approval with a unanimous vote after Tuesday’s meeting. Brickworks, proposed by Charlotte-based SpaceCraft, is expected to include 1,880 units – both apartments and townhouses – and mixed-use commercial space. The critical step achieved Tuesday was...