Colin Campbell/WUNC News The Democratic primary in the Triangle’s 4th Congressional District could become a referendum on the party’s approach in Congress to battling the Trump administration. Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term in the seat, but she’s facing a primary challenge from the Durham County commissioner she...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  North Carolina’s Republicans were united with praise and its Democrats unsurprisingly in rejection to the State of the Union on Tuesday night. The 108-minute delivery from second-term Republican President Donald Trump intertwined the nation’s ninth largest state with ties to his policy initiatives, military readiness and...

Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline The North Carolina Board of Elections on Wednesday selected a company to upgrade the state’s elections information software. The board voted unanimously to hire ReFrame Solutions, based in Connecticut. ReFrame bid $4.66 million for the job, according to a news release. Six companies bid on the work,...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN News Four employees at a bar in Chapel Hill are facing charges in connection with a deadly crash in Harnett County that killed three people last week, the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division said Wednesday. The crash on Feb. 14 took the lives of two paratroopers stationed...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Cumberland County commissioners grappled with a question that has become increasingly urgent across North Carolina: whether the economic upside of billion‑dollar data centers outweighs the pressure they place on local power and water supplies, as well as nearby neighborhoods. Officials stressed throughout a special work session on...

Nick Broadway/WAVY News It was Feb. 3, right after a snowfall, and a cold day to be on a boat taking water, but thanks to quick thinking, a fellow fishing captain was able to get there in a matter of minutes and help make the rescue. Lifelong fisherman Capt. Buddy...

Josh Shaffer & Chantal Allam/The Raleigh News & Observer When it opened in 2002, Triangle Town Center drew 1,500 shoppers before sunrise, all of them eager to browse the state’s first Saks Fifth Avenue, gawk at the mall’s 18-foot indoor waterfall and stroll down the artificial river that burbled alongside...

Sarah Krueger/WRAL News Nonprofit CJF America President Kristen Picot was found guilty on Wednesday of one count of a simple worthless check charge. A judge found Picot not guilty of two other counts of issuing a simple worthless check. The judge dismissed a fourth count of the same charge because...

Katie Myers & Laura Hackett/Grist & NC Health News Regina is haunted by the specter of mold. She found the insidious spores in the closet, behind the refrigerator, and around the bathtub for two years after the dishwasher flooded her apartment in Asheville, North Carolina. The infestation only got worse...

Nick Sullivan & Desiree Mathurin/The Charlotte Observer Charlotte City Council committed to vote on a 60-day pause on the Interstate 77 toll lane project as a raucous crowd demanded action during Monday night’s meeting. Council members are in near unanimous agreement to stop the project, at least temporarily. They’ll take...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Residential and commercial projects requiring new sewer line extensions in Brunswick County are effectively stalled as state regulators apply a new wastewater capacity calculation, counting future development flow as already in the system. Since November, Brunswick County has requested the state freeze several new sewer extension...

Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News Teenagers in some North Carolina juvenile detention centers are spending nearly the entire day locked in their cells — sometimes allowed out for only one or two hours — according to a yearlong review of the state’s 13 juvenile detention centers by Disability Rights North Carolina....

Liz Bell/Education NC The child care center at Davidson-Davie Community College (Davidson-Davie) helps student parents stay in school, attracts faculty to the college, and provides hands-on learning to prospective teachers, college administrators told members of the North Carolina Task Force on Child Care and Early Education last Wednesday. The college...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press Sunday marked two years since the NC Supreme Court last heard arguments in the school funding suit Leandro v. State of North Carolina, though the case’s full history spans decades. The court remains at a standstill despite previous rulings in favor of Leandro and the other...

Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News North Carolina’s election technology is long overdue for an upgrade, state officials say, and a bipartisan commission met for the first time Tuesday to dive into the nitty-gritty of modernizing the systems. In the end, officials say, election results should come faster, voter data should be better...