Taylor Knopf/NC Health News Every Saturday, Linda McDonough picks up her 26-year-old daughter in Raleigh so they can spend the weekend together at her home in Chapel Hill. Typically, they go thrift shopping, visit family and friends and take in a church service before she takes her daughter back. There...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Anyone who wants to work as an officer for the High Point Police Department will have to do more than simply meet the basic requirements, according to Police Chief Curtis Cheeks III. When Cheeks took over the department of around 250 sworn officers in 2024, he...

Mebane Rash/Education NC For those of you who lived and worked in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, you have seen a glimpse of the future. Many of us remember the near constant whirr of helicopters. Earlier this month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced eight proposals that could define...

Will Atwater/NC Health News Stokes County resident Tim Mabe likes to use a boat analogy to convey the size of a data center proposed for a nearly 2,000‑acre parcel along the Dan River that county commissioners voted to rezone for heavy industrial use in January. “Stokes County wants to get...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Charlotte City Council has not explained why it canceled Wednesday afternoon’s special meeting on the Interstate 77 toll lane project. Council members had scheduled a special meeting on Tuesday about I-77, but then abruptly cancelled it hours later. They have not offered an explanation as to...

WRAL News The president of the UNC System, which oversees all public universities in North Carolina, must give written approval of any contract for the Tar Heels’ next men’s basketball coach, a byproduct of the messy process that led to the hiring of football coach Bill Belichick and one that...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The New Hanover County Board of Elections has begun the process of removing its director, according to sources close to the board. The board met in a closed session Monday night to discuss a personnel matter, though previous reporting from Port City Daily and WHQR indicated...

Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina recovery officials are cautiously hopeful that newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, will speed up the flow of federal disaster aid to the state. The Senate confirmed Mullin Monday night in a 54-45 vote. He will be...

Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times Almost a decade after Hurricane Matthew rains caused Hominy Creek to overflow its banks into public housing units in Wilson, local officials hosted a visit to the site to explain the positive impacts of demolition and stormwater improvement projects. Wilson city officials hosted N.C. Department...

The Hendersonville Lightning The N.C. Department of Transportation, in partnership with local municipalities, will remove barricades and open U.S. 64 to traffic this weekend, ahead of schedule. Blythe Construction will reopen the highway in a temporary pattern on Saturday as crews finish reconstructing the hurricane-damaged corridor. “We are excited to...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The state has OK’d the city of High Point’s revised timeline for financing an upcoming road project. The North Carolina Local Government Commission recently granted the city’s request for a three-year extension to issue general obligation bonds for the Triangle Lake Road reconstruction. It’s among...

Barbara Ortutay/The Associated Press & WRAL News Fortnite publisher Epic Games said Tuesday it is laying off 1,000 employees to save money as it grapples with industry-wide and company-specific challenges. The Cary, North Carolina-based video game publisher said in a memo to employees that the job cuts are not related...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Something potentially and significantly consequential is underway now in North Carolina that could alter management of the state’s increasingly battered Atlantic coastline. The state Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel is in the process of finalizing an analysis of beach erosion-control structures, a report that is expected...

Chloe Courtney Bohl/IndyWeek Wesley Knott will continue to serve as chair of the Wake County Democratic Party (WCDP) following a successful vote of confidence in his leadership at Saturday’s county party convention. Some Wake Democrats called for Knott’s resignation last week based on his decision to endorse Nida Allam in...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer To make ends meet, the county has dipped into its cash reserves to the tune of $24.7 million this fiscal year — more than four times what it normally borrows from reserves and twice what the county initially anticipated. The deplenished piggy bank is now a...