Megan Cloherty & Shaun Gallagher/WRAL News The woman accused of shooting two attorneys outside of the Wake County Courthouse in downtown Raleigh will remain in jail without bond. Gwendolyn White, 57, appeared in court on Tuesday morning on two counts of attempted murder in connection with the shooting last Friday...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press After Medicaid expansion passed in 2023, North Carolina seemed ready to enter a new era of record low levels of uninsured residents. Instead, economic headwinds and policy changes have charted the state off course, leaving insurance companies to prepare for the consequences of a smaller, and...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio In the 1970s, N.C. 16 fractured west Charlotte, cutting the neighborhood off from Johnson C. Smith University and points east. The highway overlooks Van Buren Street in the McCrorey Heights neighborhood and is clearly visible from the road. Since its construction, residents have petitioned the N.C. Department...

Ashley Fredde/NC Health News When first responders responded within minutes to a 911 call from Clayton Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Johnston County, they arrived to find that resuscitation had not yet begun. The resident was pronounced dead just over 30 minutes after the call. At the same nursing home,...

Port City Daily A Southport elected official may not be charged in a driving while impaired case as a judge accepted a motion to dismiss the case on Monday, May 11. Southport Alderman Robert Carroll’s attorney has filed the motion due to issues with his client’s arrest and administration of...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro The Chatham County Board of Commissioners met on Monday to continue last month’s public hearing for Fearrington Preserve, a proposed mixed-use housing community located off of Andrews Store Road. While aiming to bring affordable housing north of Pittsboro, it has been met with continued scrutiny from residents...

Annie Dance/The Carolina Journal As western North Carolina continues rebuilding from the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene, another round of flooding and roadway failures is exposing how fragile the region’s recovery remains months later. Emergency crews in Buncombe, Henderson, and Rutherford counties responded Tuesday to dangerous flooding conditions, washed-out...

Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The Division of Marine Fisheries wants to bring the public into the blue crab stock assessment development process. The division’s stock assessment scientists plan to review what a stock assessment is and how this data set is developed during a WebEx meeting from 6-8 p.m. Thursday,...

Justin Laidlaw/IndyWeek Elections in Durham are omnipresent. In the odd years, city council and mayoral races take center stage, whereas the county commission, school board, state, and federal races ramp up in the even years. The marathon election schedule can be exhausting for nearly everyone involved, politicians and voters alike....

Nancy McCleary/The Sanford Herald County Manager Lisa Minter has proposed pushing back major construction projects to be able to provide money for school projects and as little impact as possible on residents. The total Capital Improvement Plan funding request for 2027-2031 is $304,211,427 with Minter’s proposal of 12 county-funded projects...

Amy McCraw/Henndersonville Lightning A Henderson County jury likely made state history when it returned a $101 million verdict against the Hajoca Corp. last week,  attorneys representing plaintiffs in the case said in interviews with the Lightning. The lawsuit, which involved a wall that collapsed on four construction workers at the...

Deana Harley/WNCN Court documents are shedding light on the legal battle that led up to a woman allegedly leaving the Wake County Courthouse on Friday, getting a gun, and shooting two attorneys. Gwendolyn White is due in court on Tuesday, charged with attempted murder. It all dates back to 2021,...

Felicia Sonmez/BPR News There’s something similar to a small city of construction workers and heavy machinery along Interstate 40 near the Tennessee border. It’s part of a $2 billion effort to repair the highway, which was partially washed into the Pigeon River by Hurricane Helene. North Carolina Department of Transportation...

Ferrel Guillory/Education NC Rachel Canter wants North Carolina legislators and education policymakers to know that Mississippi’s two-decade vault to the top in fourth grade test scores did not result solely from a literacy initiative with phonics at its core. “Our story is bigger than literacy,’’ she said Monday in a...

Bradley George/WUNC News Benson town manager Dane Rideout has resigned, as the Johnston County town continues to struggle with a financial crisis. Mayor Max Raynor read Rideout’s resignation letter during a town commission meeting Thursday night. “It has become clear that I am unable to overcome institutional resistance to the...