Caroline Vakil/The Hill Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) is touting a more than $9.5 million haul in the fourth quarter of fundraising of 2025, easily outpacing former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Whatley’s haul in the North Carolina Senate race, according to figures first shared with The...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio North Carolina is facing a looming deadline to find more funding to cover new federal work requirements for Medicaid. President Trump’s megabill that became law last summer requires most Medicaid recipients to work, volunteer or receive job training at least 20 hours a week. But it will...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh A pair of Raleigh’s newest office towers has been sold for $210 million — a significant decrease from the record sum of $330 million the two towers fetched in 2022. Why it matters: The new owner is a partnership between Raleigh’s largest landlord, Highwoods Properties, and the...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Randolph County Commissioners could be voting on new bylaws for the recently dissolved public library board of trustees in the coming weeks. Back in December, the commissioners dismissed all of the trustees after they voted to keep a book about a transgender boy in the children’s section...

Joshua Bay/Inside Higher Ed What was once an underused mobile app at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been rebuilt to serve as a central hub for student information and services. The app, Hello Heels, was relaunched during first-year orientation last fall after undergoing a redesign following...

Taylor Ford & Nixon Norman/WFMY News A longtime Greensboro civil rights activist and housing advocate whose work helped shape the city for generations has died. Willena R. Cannon, a tireless advocate for justice and community change, died Saturday at her home in Greensboro after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according...

Janet Briggs/The Salisbury Post     The Ford City Motor Lofts project at 419 South Main Street recently received a $500,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. This grant will cover some of the unexpected increased construction costs since the project started. The Ford City Motor Lofts are a...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio A group of Buddhist monks is walking through the Charlotte area this week as part of a 2,300-mile peace walk from Texas to Washington, D.C. The monks began their journey in October and arrived Tuesday night at Catawba Baptist Church in Rock Hill, where thousands of people...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Restoring land as close to how it was more than two centuries ago is by no means a cheap venture. Just ask Louis Moore Bacon. Since 2012, Bacon has invested more than $100 million in the property on which his ancestor, Roger Moore, founded Orton Plantation...

Chris Burritt/Business North Carolina Stokes County commissioners approved a request for the rezoning of nearly 1,850 acres along the Dan River at the Virginia border for a data center, despite residents’ concerns about noise and other threats to the environment and quality of life. The 3-2 vote Monday rebuffed an...

Carly Haynes/WRAL News Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman has consulted with the state auditor’s office and the State Bureau of Investigation in examining the town of Cary’s financial mismanagement. On Monday, North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek said a preliminary look into the town’s finances showed there was potential...

Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline An investigation by the North Carolina State Board of Elections found that two contributions by lobbyists to Rep. Sarah Stevens’ state Supreme Court campaign were illegal, but said they did not represent an “intentional violation.” The board issued warning letters to the Stevens campaign as well as...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Elon University said Tuesday that it has applied to the American Bar Association for approval to launch a full-time, 2.5-year law school in Charlotte, in addition to its existing four-year, part-time program in Charlotte and another full-time law program in Greensboro. The new law program will be...

Tulsi Asokan/The Daily Tar Heel Recipients of the North Carolina Scholarship for Children of Wartime Veterans were notified in November that their spring 2026 awards would be reduced or “prorated” by 25 percent, and the notice attributed the reduction to limited funding amid delays in passing a state budget. The...

Paul Woolverton/CityView More than five years ago, a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Adrian Roberts while trying to take him into custody for mental health care. The shooting led to a wrongful death lawsuit from Roberts’ wife that is still being litigated. The deputy, Justin Evans, last week...