In a state expected to help decide the presidency, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did little to quell speculation on President Biden’s path forward as the Democratic nominee to a room full of North Carolina Democrats on Saturday. Pelosi addressed more than 900 people at the North Carolina Democratic Party...

The North Carolina State Board of Elections won’t have data on new party registrations for “We the People” until mid-August, but it’s already clear the new political party’s certification heightens the tumult across the political landscape. The nation is grappling with the horror of an assassination attempt on former President...

With Election Day approaching, North Carolina has a problem. The state is rapidly losing county elections directors. In the past five years, the state says North Carolina’s 100 counties have seen 61 election director changes. That turnover could have an impact on voters when they go to cast their ballots....

North Carolina has a large delegation at the Republican National Convention this week. Among the group of 74 officially casting their votes for Donald Trump as president is a Wake County teenager. Cardinal Gibbons High School student Kelcey Shull, 17, is the youngest North Carolina delegate. Cardinal Gibbons High School...

Less than a week after accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, former President Donald Trump will hold a rally Wednesday in Charlotte. Trump, who chose Ohio Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate, will speak at 6 p.m. at Bojangles Coliseum. The rally will take place...

A new proposal could bring a highly anticipated sports complex to Eastland Yards with a lower price tag. The new proposal for the 29-acre complex would come with an indoor sports center and six full-sized, multipurpose outdoor fields. Several plans for the old Eastland Mall site have fallen by the...

North Carolina State University and a former grad student end employee have resolved a legal dispute related to the Poe Hall shutdown, according to a court filing Friday. NCSU has asked the state Supreme Court to lift a stay in the case. That action would allow a trial judge to...

UNC System president Peter Hans did not waste any time in appointing the committee that will recommend a replacement for NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson. Woodson, the longest serving chancellor in the University of North Carolina System, announced on Thursday that he will retire at the end of June of...

CrowdStrike experienced a widespread data outage on Thursday, affecting thousands of its clients globally. Among them, media, transportation, healthcare, and government facilities across North Carolina. Currently, North Carolina DMV offices are closed due to the outage, and flight delays are plaguing airports nationwide. “NC Ports’ systems are experiencing issues due...

For the third straight year, small businesses had a record year working for the N.C. Department of Transportation. NCDOT awarded nearly $65.4 million to small business enterprises (SBEs) through contracts under $1 million in the 2024 fiscal year, generating a 35% increase over the previous record of about $48.4 million...

NC Medicaid costs fluctuate each year. The state Department of Health and Human Services forecasts how costs might change and asks the legislature for funding adjustments based on those predictions. For the 2024-25 fiscal year, the department asked for almost half a billion dollars extra to meet higher costs —...

After the driest June in recorded North Carolina history, farmers across the state are coping with the impacts of intense drought. According to the US Drought Monitor, 22 North Carolina counties are experiencing severe drought, while one county — Columbus County, a rural, agriculturally driven county in the southeastern part...

A summer COVID-19 spike has become an unwelcome trend that’s tied to the change of seasons. Medical professionals say that coronavirus cases have spiked so far this summer, a development that has occurred each summer since the pandemic emerged in early 2020. Nationally, COVID-19 case rates and emergency room visits...

Princeville, North Carolina, the oldest community in the United States founded by formerly enslaved people, has been trapped in a cycle of disaster and disinvestment for decades. The town of around 1,200 people sits on a plain below the banks of the Tar River, and it has flooded more than...

The ransomware group linked to a June cyberattack against auto industry software provider CDK Global received a payment of more than $25 million two days after the attack that hobbled software used by roughly 15,000 car dealerships in the U.S. became public, researchers told CyberScoop. A cryptocurrency wallet likely controlled...