A North Carolina state employee of nearly three decades is facing felony charges. Harlan Frye, 62, who served as human resources director for the North Carolina Department of Revenue, is no longer employed by the agency as of June 10, WRAL Investigates learned. Frye was arrested June 9 in Long...

Proposed national defense spending of $923.3 billion in fiscal year 2025 includes keeping the F-15E Strike Eagles at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base through 2029. The full Senate is next with a floor vote on the National Defense Authorization Act following Monday’s passage in the chamber’s Committee on Armed Services....

Two structures with what Buncombe County officials said were “extensive” violations of environmental health and other rules along an important waterway have been demolished after a vote by local elected officials. The buildings at 1599 and 1603 Barnardsville Highway, a commercial structure and garage, had brightly painted walls facing the...

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $3.5 million in tax incentives for a potential solar factory Monday, marking the first step in enticing an unnamed international company to bring over $159 million to the local economy. Known as “Project Smartie,” CityView previously reported the plant would create 815...

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $3.5 million in tax incentives for a potential solar factory Monday, marking the first step in enticing an unnamed international company to bring over $159 million to the local economy. Known as “Project Smartie,” CityView previously reported the plant would create 815...

Last fall, out of public view, the North Carolina Supreme Court squashed disciplinary action against two Republican judges who had admitted that they had violated the state’s judicial code of conduct, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the decisions. One of the judges had ordered, without legal justification,...

North Carolina legislators talked a lot about drugs on Wednesday, with a Senate committee agreeing to rules for hemp-derived consumables and House members moving to crack down on the sale and use of “gas station heroin.” The state House put on a fast track proposed legislation to make unauthorized sales...

The dates may have changed, but the host of concerns raised over the past few years have not as the North Carolina State Ports Authority’s plan to deepen and widen Wilmington Harbor is cast back into the public spotlight. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Wilmington District hosted Thursday its...

A Wilmington City Council member has long dismissed concerns that his position at a prominent commercial real estate firm could pose a conflict of interest, though emails obtained by Port City Daily show he communicated with his business partner about a development change affecting the company. Last month, Wilmington City...

The headline of a June 19, 1983, article in the StarNews showed one party’s popularity in Brunswick County: “10 Democrats trying for sheriff’s job in Brunswick.” Each of the 10 men looked to fill the unexpired term of the Democratic sheriff who had been forced to resign after he was...

Steven Hardy-Braz rode more than 11,000 miles in the first 11 months of 2021. An avid road cyclist from Farmville, he took every precaution — reflective clothing, bright lights, mirrors. He also had a camera mounted on the back of his bike. On Nov. 21 of that year, as Hardy-Braz...

North Carolina students are reporting fewer mental health challenges and suicidal behaviors, according to results from the 2023 NC Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The biannual survey, which anonymously surveys middle and high school students, has been conducted in the spring of every odd year since 1993. The last survey was...

The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people’s lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is...

A campaign by St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church and other area churches has used $17,738 in donations to abolish $4.5 million in medical debt in six counties. This is the second year Father Paul Castelli has led the effort to abolish crippling medical debt. In 2023, the Easter Medical Debt Jubilee...

Ahead of a multi-year, $140 million renovation to Dabney Hall, faculty and students in the chemistry department have flagged concerns about the safety of the project. Construction and safety managers involved in the project say the University is confident the occupied renovation will be conducted safely. According to a September...