More than three-fourths of Americans expect that abuses of artificial intelligence will affect the 2024 presidential election, according to a new national survey. The possible uses include manipulating social media by generating false information from fake accounts or bots, generating fake video and audio material, and targeting some voters to...

Brad Knott, a candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, won the Republican primary runoff for North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday over a rival who suspended her campaign two weeks ago in response to Trump’s endorsement. The former assistant U.S. attorney defeated Kelly Daughtry, a local lawyer and...

The foundations are crumbling. The floors are sinking. There’s no air conditioning. There’s no heat. The windows don’t shut. The pipes are broken. Rats, mice, and cockroaches are nesting in open cavities in the walls and ceilings. People living in four East Durham properties that Leonzo and Loretta Lynch inherited...

The Surry County Board of Commissioners removed two long-time members of the Northern Regional Board of Trustees — Chairman Bill Woltz and Vice Chair Monty Venable. Chairman Van Tucker introduced a motion that passed unanimously to remove the pair, after a nearly two-hour long closed session. The board had moved...

More Americans are falling behind on their credit card bills. About 8.9% of credit card balances fell into delinquency over the last year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — a sign that a growing number of borrowers are feeling the strain of rising prices and high...

Nearly two decades after a clash over the Catawba River basin made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, Charlotte wants permission to move tens of millions more gallons per day out of the river. The request could return the issue of water transfers to the forefront and ignite opposition in...

Adults may soon be able to purchase marijuana for recreational use from Cherokee’s new dispensary. At a work session last week, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian’s Tribal Council discussed several questions they had regarding a potential ordinance that would legalize sales of cannabis to any adult with a valid...

Adults may soon be able to purchase marijuana for recreational use from Cherokee’s new dispensary. At a work session last week, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian’s Tribal Council discussed several questions they had regarding a potential ordinance that would legalize sales of cannabis to any adult with a valid...

The UNC Board of Trustees approved an audit of the school’s athletic department Monday morning amid concerns and anger over the Tar Heels’ revenue, management and changes to college sports. The board plans to meet about athletics in closed session during its meetings Wednesday and Thursday. It approved a top...

The contract for the I-26 Connector section that runs through Asheville has been awarded, the North Carolina Department of Transportation announced May 15. Archer-Wright Joint Venture was selected for the design-build contract for Section B of the I-26 Connector project, which runs from Haywood Road in West Asheville and crosses...

Calling the elimination of an entire squadron and 520 jobs at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base unacceptable, U.S. Rep. Don Davis is steadfast alongside U.S. Sen. Ted Budd as leaders in Congress fighting to stop the change. Davis, an Air Force veteran from Snow Hill just a few miles away...

The academic year is over at UNC, but tensions remain high after several weeks of contentious demonstrations against the war in Gaza Amidst all of those concerns, UNC Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts stopped by 97.9 The Hill last week for a wide-ranging conversation with Aaron Keck. Aaron Keck: Let’s go...

Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, says he’s a fan of using public money to help parents pay private school tuition. He has watched the voucher movement grow over the last 30 years, starting in the early 1990s as an alternative to public schools in a...

Scott Lindsay, the former attorney for the Cherokee County Department of Social Services who was tied to that agency’s use of fake legal documents to unlawfully remove children from their families over several years, has been convicted of obstruction of justice in relation to those cases. Lindsay’s trial took place...

Approximately 700,000 vehicles are stolen each year in the U.S. Around 40% of those vehicles are stolen right off of car lots and that number’s going up. “They were driving around scouting us out. They knew where everything was,” says Wayne Dubois, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sport...