Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press When looking at which Democratic legislators have voted to override governor vetoes in recent years, the names of two Mecklenburg House members appear often: Reps. Carla Cunningham and Nasif Majeed. Since 2023, Cunningham has voted to override 15 vetoes from Democratic governors Roy Cooper and Josh...

Jessica Patrick & Brian Murphy/WRAL News It will cost a bit more for incoming undergraduate students from North Carolina to attend most UNC System universities this fall. The UNC System Board of Governors voted Thursday to approve near across-the-board tuition increases at the state’s 16 public universities, including the first...

Taylor Knopf/NC Health News Since November, North Carolina lawmakers have been grappling with the problems plaguing the state’s intertwined mental health and criminal justice systems during hours-long monthly meetings packed with presentations from experts and state officials. Their goal? To address the revolving door of people with mental illness who...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily With infrastructure repairs needed and employee costs conceivably increasing, as revenue remains flat, officials in the town of Wrightsville Beach are weighing options on the 2026-2027 budget. It includes discussions about potentially raising property taxes for the first time in more than a decade. In the...

Sally Kestin/Asheville Watchdog Asheville attorney Robert Perry Tucker II was found guilty Wednesday of conspiring with two others to illegally take ownership of a former police officer’s Arden house through bogus court and legal filings. Superior Court Judge Louis A. Trosch Jr. found Tucker guilty of obtaining property by false...

Sean Coffey/WTVD News City leaders and development partners unveiled new plans on Wednesday for Heritage Park, an affordable housing community on the southern edge of downtown Raleigh. The redevelopment will introduce hundreds of new units in the coming years, increasing from 120 to over 1,000, with most being affordable. Originally...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio Voters will see two races on their ballots for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners in this year’s primary. Two Democrats are competing to represent District 7. Walter Johnson is facing Lisa McMillan. One of them will replace Commissioner Frankie Jones, who announced last year he’s not...

Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer The controversial Queen Farm subdivision in Waynesville will grow from 115 to 261 homes following a heated and emotional public hearing last week, where speakers and a divided planning board lamented the erosion of Waynesville’s character from the mega development. Phase II of the subdivision will...

Hannah Leyva/WNCN News A Roanoke Rapids school district employee is accused of using money from an elementary school Parent Teacher Organization for her own use. Roanoke Rapids police said that a “report of potential embezzlement by an employee of the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District” was given to them on...

The Southern Pines Pilot The United States Golf Association announced the 2026 Greenkeeper Apprenticeship Program (GAP) class marks the fourth year of the program. The 35 apprentices across both the Pinehurst and Myrtle Beach locations receive a combination of on-the-job training and classroom instruction, allowing the students to take their...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio The Department of Homeland Security is facing a new class action lawsuit in North Carolina, accusing officers of making illegal, warrantless arrests, including of U.S. citizens. A lawsuit filed Tuesday by the ACLU of North Carolina, Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Democracy Forward claims federal immigration...

Colin Campbell/WUNC News The Democratic primary in the Triangle’s 4th Congressional District could become a referendum on the party’s approach in Congress to battling the Trump administration. Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term in the seat, but she’s facing a primary challenge from the Durham County commissioner she...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  North Carolina’s Republicans were united with praise and its Democrats unsurprisingly in rejection to the State of the Union on Tuesday night. The 108-minute delivery from second-term Republican President Donald Trump intertwined the nation’s ninth largest state with ties to his policy initiatives, military readiness and...

Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline The North Carolina Board of Elections on Wednesday selected a company to upgrade the state’s elections information software. The board voted unanimously to hire ReFrame Solutions, based in Connecticut. ReFrame bid $4.66 million for the job, according to a news release. Six companies bid on the work,...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN News Four employees at a bar in Chapel Hill are facing charges in connection with a deadly crash in Harnett County that killed three people last week, the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division said Wednesday. The crash on Feb. 14 took the lives of two paratroopers stationed...