Coastal Review Online An area branch of the NAACP has joined the fight to keep Chemours and its predecessor company DuPont from shielding thousands of pages of documents from the public eye. The Southern Coalition for Social Justice on Tuesday filed a motion on behalf of the National Association for...

Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News North Carolina has emerged as a vital access point for abortion care in the South in the wake of a wave of restrictions in neighboring states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Nationwide, the Tar Heel state served the second...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The state House voted 68-45 along party lines Wednesday to ban diversity, equity and inclusion in state government agencies. The bill would ban the use of DEI in hiring practices and in employee training. The bill would define DEI as a program or policy intended to “influence...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press A North Carolina appeals court ruled Wednesday that a law stripping the governor’s authority to appoint State Board of Elections members can take effect for now, even though trial judges struck it down as unconstitutional just last week. Three judges on the intermediate-level Court of...

Sarah Krueger/WRAL News  The majority of the cases related to the January 2024 crash that killed University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student Molly Rotunda have been resolved in court, including one as recently as Tuesday. WRAL News has reported extensively on the deadly single-car crash on Jan. 21,...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Those who are taken into ICE custody typically arrive at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. Data from Syracuse University shows that while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has increased the number of detainers sent to jails nationwide by 72%, fewer individuals are being taken into ICE...

WTVD News The former president of Saint Augustine’s University, Dr. Christine McPhail, is once again suing the school and two former board members. Dr. McPhail was fired from the role in December, 2023. At the time, she said the board of trustees told her she had been fired without providing...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press There’s never an off year for elections. At least not in the state legislature. This session, dozens of election-related bills have been filed, but a few have sped to the front of the pack: local measures making school board races partisan and those shifting municipal contests...

Mebane Rash/Education NC Gov. Josh Stein joined the Smart Start Conference in Greensboro on Wednesday to highlight his priorities for child care and early education, but he also urged North Carolina’s federal delegation to oppose efforts to eliminate the Head Start program, according to a press release. Stein, Lt. Gov....

April Laissle/WFDD Radio Senator Thom Tillis has released a map labeling nine North Carolina counties “sanctuary jurisdictions” for undocumented immigrants. Among them: Forsyth, Guilford, and Watauga. But local law enforcement officials are pushing back. “That’s not true, has no validity,” said Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough. Watauga County Sheriff Len...

The (Southern Pines) Pilot Moore County Schools has announced several leadership appointments within the district, effective July 1. The following appointments have been made: *Shaun Krencicki has been appointed as the principal of Aberdeen Elementary School; *Sandra Bare will become the principal of Southern Middle School; *Jamie Synan has been...

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline The North Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to advance a bill that would ban certain foreign groups from purchasing farmland in the state. Senate Bill 394, “Prohibit Foreign Ownership of NC Land,” passed without discussion after the panel approved a technical amendment. The legislation now moves...

Josh Boak & Alexa St. John/The Associated Press President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday to relax some of his 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts, the White House said, a significant reversal as the import taxes threatened to hurt domestic manufacturers. Automakers and independent analyses have...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press  The State Health Plan is deeply in debt. To get out of the red, the 750,000 employees who receive coverage will experience something many were hoping to avoid: the first significant premium increase in nearly a decade. It’s part of the strategy from Brad Briner,...

Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the deadliest attack on law enforcement officers in Charlotte’s history, when four officers were killed while serving a warrant. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer had been named the department’s Officer of the Month just the month before his death....