Christine Zhu/NC Newsline U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, a Republican representing western North Carolina, is asking his colleagues to reject his censure after a U.S. House Ethics Committee report accused him of inappropriate conduct towards two young women working in his office. Edwards said in a 22-page letter Thursday that the...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Before and after the pandemic, Mecklenburg County’s half-cent sales tax for transit was booming. During much of the first Trump administration, transit tax revenues grew by an average rate of 8% a year. Revenues fell during COVID, but they surged again as the economy opened back up....

Joe Bruno/WSOC News Season 3 of The Hunting Wives will not be shot in North Carolina after the General Assembly made changes to how film incentives are distributed. The announcement is a stunning blow for a state that has been hot for movie and television productions the last few years....

Lucy Ritchie/WITN East Carolina University and the U.S. Army Reserve signed a 10-year agreement on Monday that could be worth more than $6 million to expand a campus-developed software designed to predict building maintenance issues. The software, called “Piton,” was created by ECU researchers. It combines data from Army buildings...

DJ Simmons/The Charlotte Observer American Airlines is continuing to build Charlotte Douglas International Airport as a global gateway with new, direct service to Barcelona beginning next summer. American will operate daily flights from Charlotte to Barcelona beginning on May 27, the airline recently announced. Tickets will be available for purchase...

The Robesonian Lumbee Tribal Chairman John Lowery on Tuesday announced a new “vision” for health care among the Tribal community, releasing a video message to announce a “foundational concept” for the Lumbee River Health System. Lowery said the following in the message: “In our first eight months as a fully...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Wake school board Chairman Tyler Swanson pleaded guilty Wednesday to speeding in a school zone. Swanson was pulled over in January after police said he was going 47 mph on Evans Road next to West Cary Middle School while the speed limit was 25 mph. On Wednesday,...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press North Carolina’s 100 sheriffs have wide-ranging jobs. As part of their vow to maintain law and order, they oversee county detention facilities, investigate crimes, patrol the community, enforce traffic laws and serve court documents. But once sheriffs get elected, voters rarely remove them from office. Often,...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online   Weather forecasts in areas of North Carolina this summer have played like a needle on a scratched vinyl record, bouncing backward in a repeating loop: dry and hot, dry and hot, dry and hot. Well before high temperatures with heat indexes climbing into triple digits...

Emily Weaver/The Daily Record There is a cricket shortage in the United States — but not in Dunn. That’s thanks to Bryan Sharpe who never imagined running the state’s largest cricket farm when he bought the old Warren’s Cricket Farm operation for the warehouse space it offered. But, like the...

Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio Country music legend Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at 80, leaves a legacy in North Carolina that extends well beyond her music. Since 2017, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has provided more than 24.6 million free books to young children across the state through North Carolina’s...

Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline State Attorney General Jeff Jackson and other state attorneys general are suing to stop the U.S. Postal Service from controlling who receives absentee ballots. The lawsuit stems from President Donald Trump’s executive order that would have the US Postal Service block delivery of some absentee ballots. Under...

Zac Ezzone/Triangle Business Journal North Carolina Children’s hospital aims to start construction in 2027 in Apex. The organization has raised multiple multimillion-dollar donations and aims for over $1 billion total. Duke Health and UNC Health secured antitrust protections to merge their pediatric operations into the independent system. Construction on North...

Michael Perchick/WTVD As housing costs remain high across the Triangle, affordable housing advocates, builders and real estate leaders are searching for ways to expand options for residents increasingly priced out of the market. “There are so many people that we think are served by the Habitat (for Humanity) program. Teachers...

Lonyae Coulter/WXII News Piedmont Advantage Credit Union will merge with Truliant Federal Credit Union. In a statement, members officially voted yes to approve their proposed merger. The vote was finalized Monday, Aug. 25, during a special meeting and follows regulatory approvals received in June for the merger to proceed. Both...