WRAL News North Carolina lawmakers are scheduled to debate a bill Tuesday that would ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for children who are 14 and 15 years old. The companies that own social media platforms such as TikTok, Facebook and Instagram say they...

The Carolina Journal Private law enforcement group Allied Universal Security Services is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to reject a petition from Charlotte television reporter Nick Ochsner. Ochsner wants state courts to forced Allied Universal to release the names and addresses of two security guards involved in the fatal...

Outer Banks Voice On April 1, the Dare County Tax Appraisal Department announced that 2025 revaluation notices containing the updated appraised value for 41,567 taxable properties have now been mailed to all Dare County property owners. The total value of those properties, according to the county, is $27,453,300,000 or about...

Morty Gaskill/Coastal Review Online In 1976, a North Carolina Sea Grant newsletter sounded the alarm: large-scale land drainage was wiping out wetlands that protect our coastal fisheries. Fishermen saw their livelihoods at risk and 3,000 of them pleaded for action. “We, the undersigned, being commercial and sport fishermen who use...

Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio As the number of cameras installed at homes and businesses continues to grow, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have launched a security camera registry program to allow residents and business owners to share information about potential crimes. CMPD launched Connect Charlotte earlier this year and says the program has...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is teaming up with federal wildlife officials to curb the spread of rabies. Starting this week, the United States Department of Agriculture will distribute oral rabies vaccines for raccoons across western North Carolina. Vaccine baits coated in fishmeal...

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline When Hurricane Helene tore through western Yancey County, Steve Boyd was one of thousands in the area who lost internet access. The 70-year-old retiree, who lives outside of Burnsville, knows he got lucky. He didn’t lose his house, or his belongings — just a couple nearby trees...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News Addressing a crowded ballroom at a Raleigh hotel last Wednesday, Gov. Josh Stein said he is “gravely concerned” about congressional Republicans’ plans to slash federal funding for Medicaid. “These proposals would take away people’s access to health care, destabilize rural hospitals and challenge the bipartisan progress...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Corn farmers on food stamps and taking second jobs. Equipment not being repaired. Debts going unpaid. That’s the reality for many North Carolina corn growers this spring. Last year was the worst season for the crop in state history, according to Ronnie Heiniger, a corn...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The town of Spruce Pine’s riverfront park has been under a layer of mud since Helene’s floodwaters receded. North Carolina’s legislature passed more than $1 billion with two Helene recovery funding bills in October, but by mid-February, about two-thirds of that money still hadn’t been spent. The...

Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio As more people enter continuing care retirement communities, a bill in the North Carolina General Assembly would create new rules for those facilities. The legislation is partly in response to serious financial troubles at Aldersgate, which is one of Charlotte’s oldest and best-known retirement facilities. The Charlotte...

Bill Hutchinson/ABC News A massive wildfire burning for more than a week in South Carolina jumped the border Saturday and was spreading Sunday into North Carolina, where firefighters were already battling multiple blazes, officials said. The Table Rock Fire, which started on March 21 in the Table Rock State Park...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A proposal to limit commercial fishers’ harvest of blue crabs treads rough waters after advisory committees to the state Marine Fisheries Commission agreed the rule should not move forward. The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries’ recommendation targets catch of mature female crabs. The proposed move...

Rodney Overton/CBS 17 News There’s been a lot of feedback this week about a new parking plan and payment system at a North Carolina island. Sunset Beach is a community that includes an island with 3 miles of beaches located in far southern Brunswick County. For much of its existence,...

Michael Singleton/The Daily Tar Heel Amid changes in Ph.D. admissions across the country, faculty and prospective students are left wondering what current and future developments might mean for UNC. Last month, the UNC Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program announced a preemptive decrease in admissions for their incoming class. While the...