Haylee Kennedy/WNCN Some Wake County parents are raising concerns about the company that takes their children’s school photos after a connection was made in the newly unsealed Jefferey Epstein files. Rene Barton’s son has picture day tomorrow; however, he will not be participating with the rest of his class. “What...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press No, it’s not a scam. The North Carolina State Board of Elections sent letters to 241,000 voters in early February as part of a new effort to improve voter roll accuracy. The letters requested certain voters’ birthdays, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of...

Jaclyn Diaz & Cheryl Corley/NPR The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and in the 1980s reshaped Democratic politics with two galvanizing presidential campaigns, died Tuesday at the age of 84. “Our father was a servant...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The City of Wilmington’s initiative to create a park out of 25 acres on Greenville Loop Road narrowly received approval from purchasing partner New Hanover County on Monday. Some commissioners raised concerns over transparency in the sale process. The county commissioners ultimately voted 3-2, with Democrats...

Louis Van Boxel-Woolf/Barron’s German agrichemical giant Bayer said Tuesday its subsidiary Monsanto had proposed a class settlement of up to $7.25 billion to settle claims that the Roundup weedkiller causes blood cancer, potentially drawing a line under years of costly litigation. Under the proposed agreement, Monsanto would make a series...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer This winter’s brutal temperatures have taken a toll on utility bills across the county. As temperatures dropped, heaters kicked on and stayed on — driving up energy usage and costs. “The last month has been cold, and many have said their heaters haven’t turned off in...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro Some Chatham County residents are speaking out against Pittsboro’s use of Flock license-plate cameras, citing privacy concerns. The surveillance technology by Flock Safety largely aims to help local police identify suspects and locate missing persons by taking still images of a vehicle’s “distinguishing features,” including the license...

Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times At a Feb. 13 candidate forum hosted by a local business group, the three candidates for Buncombe County District Attorney discussed violent crime, homelessness, case backlogs, relationships with law enforcement and jail capacity — each making their case to lead the office. All are Democrats, with...

Juliet Loffredo/The Daily Tar Heel After Chancellor Lee Roberts announced on Jan. 21  that UNC would move forward with the development of Carolina North, a satellite campus 2 miles off of UNC’s main campus, some community members have raised concerns about the construction project’s potential impacts on the Carolina North...

Two days before the Feb. 6 registration deadline, Natalie Jewett-Dutt went online and changed her party affiliation from Democrat to unaffiliated. She is one of 168 Democrats in Dare County who have changed their registration to unaffiliated since May, 2025, according to Dare County Board of Elections data. Another 52...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Duke Energy says it needs to add a lot of additional power generation to its energy portfolio in the coming years to meet future demand driven by North Carolina’s population growth and success in attracting new businesses. A Wilmington-based company could help the utility giant meet...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A North Carolina court has ruled that the state’s lead environmental agency has the authority to set 1,4-dioxane discharge limits for public wastewater utilities. The ruling reverses a 2024 administrative law judge’s determination that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality did not follow the proper...

Port City Daily The Pender County Board of Education will be looking into strengthening district policies related to nonprofit organizations in the wake of the arrest of Topsail Athletic Booster’s club treasurer on Wednesday. The board voted in a special meeting last week to begin reviewing Pender County Schools’ policy...

WRAL News The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles announced a new batch of self-service kiosks on Monday across grocery stores in Raleigh, Apex, Wake Forest and Fayetteville. NCDMV commissioner Paul Tine announced 10 new locations, bringing the state to a total of 20 kiosks across three counties — Wake,...

Ashley Fredde/NC Health News Sunlight pours through stained glass windows onto rows of wooden pews that, on occasion, still hold hymnals. But Milner Memorial Presbyterian Church, where those same windows once illuminated weekly worship, is gone. In its place stands Milner Commons, an affordable housing complex for older adults that...