Port City Daily New Hanover County Board of Education member David Perry has announced his decision to switch from the Republican Party to the Libertarian Party. “Unfortunately, the Republican Party has changed dramatically,” Perry said in a press release. “While most rank-and-file registered Republicans are good people, the party establishment...

Dan Kane/The Raleigh News & Observer For the 2024 election, North Carolina’s youngest Republican state senator pulled off a rare fundraising triumph for a lawmaker who had only served one full term. Sen. Dave Craven, 36, represents Senate District 29, a rural expanse stretching south from Asheboro to the North...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning The developer whose plans for a 180-unit rental community on Haywood Road near Blythe Street was denied by the Hendersonville City Council in a unanimous vote is suing the city, claiming the decision was arbitrary and capricious and unsupported by state law. “A lawful business or use...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online In a matter of weeks, more than 20 North Atlantic right whale mothers and their babies will begin swimming hundreds of miles up the East Coast to their feeding grounds. Their offshore route from the northern Florida and Georgia coasts north to New England slices through...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro North Carolina House Rep. Renée Price is joining the local push to succeed outgoing state Sen. Graig Meyer, with the Hillsborough resident publicly entering her name into discussions. The District 50 representative, who serves rural Orange County and all of Caswell County, shared a release on Wednesday...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer After months of due diligence and negotiations, Canton inked a deal to buy 52 acres of former paper mill property to build a new flood-proof and town-owned sewer treatment plant. The purchase allows Canton to bring sewer treatment in-house. The town historically relied on the mill,...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Mecklenburg County’s environmental committee on Tuesday discussed the negative impact of the proposed Interstate 77 toll lanes on county parks, streams and air quality. Commissioners were angry that the North Carolina Department of Transportation didn’t disclose the impacts until after the state said it was too late...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News North Carolina’s new Medicaid plan for children in the foster care system has enrolled more than 32,000 young people, and state and health plan officials told lawmakers Tuesday they’ve cut the average time to arrange a child’s placement from 45 days to 16. The update came...

Willie Daniely/WRAL News Wake County residents gathered on Tuesday night to weigh in on a proposal to build new mountain biking and hiking trails near Lake Crabtree County Park. County leaders say the project, called Haley Branch, would span about 400 acres and could help replace trails that were lost...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A proposal to convert a Market Street motel into affordable housing units received the go-ahead from the Wilmington Planning Commission last week despite staff’s disapproval, raising questions over the city’s ability to accommodate adaptive reuse cases. Premier Hotels LLC is requesting a rezoning of the property...

Guy Lucas/The High Point Enterprise Guilford County Schools would ask for a 9% increase in local funding by Guilford County under the proposal for the school system’s operating budget presented Tuesday night by Superintendent Whitney Oakley to the Guilford County Board of Education. That would be an increase of $25.58...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger is down by 23 votes to Rockingham Sheriff Sam Page. It’s not the end of the story. Elections aren’t over until the last vote is counted — and even then, maybe not. That may be the case in the close...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the case of a U.S. citizen detained and charged with a felony for allegedly assaulting Border Patrol agents during its November operation in Charlotte. Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez, 24, was charged with using his vehicle to assault, resist or impede federal...

Theresa Opeka/Carolina Journal North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek said his office will soon release a series of major audits, including reviews of the state Education Lottery, voter-approved bonds, and the UNC system, as part of a broader effort to expand oversight of government spending. For the first time, the...

Shaun Gallagher/WRAL News To breathe easier, it’s helpful to have some plants around, quite literally. It’s Biology 101 really. Your carbon dioxide converts into oxygen through those plants. But that’s what makes it so ironic at the plant shop at the corner of S. Salisbury & W. Hargett in Downtown...