Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio It’s time for a fact-check of North Carolina politics. Election Day is just under two weeks away, but people are already casting ballots in North Carolina. Following Hurricane Helene’s devastation, the state eased some rules in western North Carolina to make it easier for those affected by...

Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News As climate change increasingly impacts North Carolina, prospective homebuyers face a daunting new reality: understanding and navigating the risks associated with property ownership. From the Outer Banks, where coastal erosion is a pressing concern, to the mountainous regions scarred by Hurricane Helene, the risks posed by flooding,...

George Chidi/The Guardian Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate, suggested that people who can’t take care of their children should be sterilized, according to one of a series of incendiary and racist social media posts from 2014 through 2019. The commentary made in reference to Black families, which...

The Washington Post It started with hot coffee. Hurricane Helene had just cut off this already isolated foothill town from everything: power, water, information. Paralyzed, the only thing that residents Carin Harris and Hilary Yoxall could think to do was post up outside their Ingles supermarket and hand out something...

High Point Enterprise The senior-living organization that operates River Landing at Sandy Ridge has purchased a pair of adjacent office buildings in northwest Guilford County to serve as its new headquarters. Kintura — which formed on Oct. 1 by the merger of Brightspire, based in Colfax, and Well-Spring Group, based...

Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline Three Republican state senators have accused Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs of “blatantly violating” the state Code of Judicial Conduct in her campaign for election to state’s highest court. Senators, Buck Newton, Amy Galey, and Danny Britt, filed a complaint with the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission...

John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog Some documents age better than others. And some? They make you cringe – a lot. Take this June 2016 news release from the City of Asheville. The headline alone has to make anyone in western North Carolina shudder: “100 years after the Flood of 1916, the City...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network In Brunswick County, developments that promise to bring hundreds of new homes and apartments to the fast-growing county seem to be springing up faster than ever. Near the South Carolina state line, Sunset Beach officials are looking to add hundreds of new homes to an existing...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Ingles Markets, the Asheville-based grocery mainstay of Western North Carolina, sustained severe damage to its distribution center along the Swannanoa River and several supermarket locations when Tropical Storm Helene hit the mountains just over three weeks ago. The severe damage to Ingles’ Black Mountain distribution...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Buncombe County has invested over $10 million in the past few years to install solar panels in many of its municipal buildings and most of Asheville City Schools. “We went from having zero solar projects to a whole bunch of solar projects in a real short order,”...

Shannon Osaka/The Washington Post Sales of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles have soared over the last few years — helping to slow global warming and take dangerous pollutants out of the atmosphere. But one technology critical to fighting climate change is lagging, thanks to a combination of high interest...

Madeleine May, Chrissy Hallowell & Katrina Kaufman/CBS News In a video obtained by CBS News, the leader of an “election protection” activist group of 1,800 volunteers in North Carolina is seen instructing attendees at a virtual meeting to flag voters with “Hispanic-sounding last names” as one way to identify potentially...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A New Hanover County commissioner is advocating the purchase of a long-vacant property to preserve the region’s greenspace and potentially create an ‘Airlie Gardens 2.0.’ At the same time, a Charlotte-based developer seeks to use the site for a major new rental complex in Wilmington. Next...

Kathy N. Ross/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Nine days after Helene’s flood waters drilled through the Ferguson dairy on Riverside, a caravan of five trucks pulling gooseneck trailers headed up Panther Creek, carrying round bales covered with Bible-verse references spray-painted in red on their white wrappings. It was a convoluted way to...

Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise A new public-private venture is seeking to raise $40 million for an affordable housing loan program in High Point. The High Point Community Foundation Housing Impact Fund would go toward construction of multifamily “workforce housing” rental units for teachers, firefighters, police officers and others who earn...