Danielle Battaglia/The (Raleigh) News & Observer A North Carolina man found himself in custody Sunday after the Secret Service’s advance team noticed a barrel of a gun sticking through a fence at the hole where former President Donald Trump was about to play golf. The Secret Service fired at the...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press On Wednesday April 19, 2023, a campfire may have sparked a wildfire in a pine forest in the core of the 160,000-acre Croatan National Forest, about 20 miles southwest of New Bern. Known as the Great Lakes Fire, the blaze spread from its source to several...

Anne Blythe/NC Health News Ana Ilarraza-Blackburn becomes animated when talking about how immigrant communities are thrust into the state and national spotlight during election years. Her voice grows louder, its cadence quickens and she unleashes an impassioned assessment about the negative health impact that political rhetoric can have on immigrant...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Macon County commissioners have curbed local restrictions that aimed to reduce soil erosion and stream sedimentation. Landowners and developers now will be subject to North Carolina soil disturbance requirements, instead of a more stringent ordinance that’s been in place locally since 2001. In August, Macon...

John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog As former Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan was winding down his third term in office in 2017, he accepted a $124,871 retention bonus designed to keep key employees in their jobs. The bonus, offered by former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene, who later served time in federal...

Ben Rappaport/Border Belt Independent Danny Parsley and his family were excited to move from northern Virginia to Lumberton, where they appreciate the small-town charm and more affordable housing prices. Shortly after they arrived in April and settled in a quaint neighborhood on the north end of town, however, they quickly...

NW Observer Summerfield is getting a permanent manager: Charles “Twig’” Rollins from the eastern North Carolina town of Magnolia. The Town Council voted unanimously last night to approve an employment agreement with Rollins, at an annual salary of $140,000. He starts work Oct. 13. Rollins emerged from a list of...

Tyler Davis/The (Henderson) Daily Dispatch On Sept. 11, Vance County Sheriff’s deputies found 21-year-old Javion Magee at 285 Vanco Mill Road deceased, sitting up against a tree outside a fenced-in area — one end of a rope tied around his neck and the other on a tree branch. Officials moved...

Aaleah McConnell/WHQR The long-contested civil case filed by the former director of the Wilmington Crime Lab was officially dismissed by Superior Court Judge Hoyt Tessener, following last month’s hearing. In a sparse ruling, Superior Court Judge Hoyt Tessener noted only that there was “no genuine issue of material fact” to...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News School bus drivers in some of North Carolina’s biggest counties are being driven away by disjointed workdays, low wages and unruly kids — a brew of factors leading them to higher-paying commercial driving jobs. The scenario is leaving school districts struggling to service routes and scrambling to...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Don’t fear the smoke machine. Wave of NC elections lawsuits may be more about misdirection than credible threats. In the past month, five lawsuits have been filed against the North Carolina State Board of Elections highlighting alleged issues with the state’s voter rolls and absentee ballot...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily   Prominent state firefighter organizations are raising concerns over a new building code law that could increase fire risks for homeowners. Firefighters and other critics argue the law demonstrates a broader issue caused by the disproportionate influence of the North Carolina Home Builders Association in the...

John Barr/ESPN.com Two of the more vocal critics of the sports betting industry on Capitol Hill outlined legislation Thursday, which if passed into law would put into place sweeping new federal regulations on gambling companies, including requiring them to set limits on what amount sports bettors wager and how often...

Chase Pellegrini de Paur/IndyWeek Anyone strolling through Raleigh this weekend may hear the voice of Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson blasting from an electronic billboard on the side of a truck. “MLK was a communist,” Robinson’s voice says, speaking over an image of himself pointing into the face of the revered...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio In the aftermath of the UNC Board of Governors DEI repeal, chancellors have closed at least seven central DEI offices, eliminated 59 DEI-related positions, and redirected nearly $17 million to “student success initiatives.” Out of all the institutions that gutted DEI programs, UNC-Chapel Hill’s administration cut the...