The Southern Pines Pilot An armed man reported missing earlier this weekend in Moore County was shot and killed by U.S. Secret Service agents Sunday morning after driving into the secure perimeter of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Resort, according to authorities. The man was identified as Austin Tucker Martin, 21,...

A.P. Dillon/North State Journal The Local Government Commission approved Raleigh’s requests to issue $221 million in bonds for a 17-story City Hall and public safety buildings during its monthly meeting on Feb. 4. The Local Government Commission (LGC) voted to approve $120 million in limited obligation bond anticipation notes for...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying warehouses across the U.S. to turn them into detention centers, and is reportedly looking at a warehouse in Concord. According to the New York Times, ICE is seeking to purchase a 414,000 square foot Concord warehouse, which will hold 1,500...

WRAL News The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation will review how Cary police handled a drug investigation where evidence shows the car of the then-town manager was present. The Wake County District Attorney’s Office asked the SBI to review documents about a 2016 incident at the Harrison Motel in...

Dasia Williams/CityView Concerned parents, educators, and community leaders filled Cliffdale Community Church on Thursday for a town hall focused on one issue: Cumberland County Schools’ decision to end year-round education at E.E. Miller Elementary. The gathering—organized by families and community advocates—came in response to a February 9 Cumberland County Board...

Evan Halper/The Washington Post The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for artificial intelligence. Dozens of airplane-hangar-size warehouses packed with computing hardware will consume...

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice On Tuesday, Feb. 17, the North Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments in the long-running legal battle between Currituck County and the Corolla Civic Association (CCA) over how the county spends occupancy tax money. The CCA plaintiffs contend that the county has improperly used those funds to...

Renee Spencer/Wilmington StarNews After a report showed a 17-year gap in life expectancy rates between two Wilmington neighborhoods, local officials have expressed concern about the disparity. While some say they are not surprised, others question the data. The data comes from the U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) —...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online More people moved to North Carolina last year from different parts of the country than any other state in the nation. North Carolina’s population grew by almost 150,000 people, trailing behind only Texas and Florida, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released last month. As political...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press A jury trial for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ prosecution of former Swain County sheriff Curtis Cochran won’t be scheduled until at least this summer, according to the latest tribal court filings. Cochran, 73, had been set to appear in tribal court in Cherokee on...

Nathaniel Puente/WCNC Multiple gunshots struck the home of a Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners candidate Monday night while he and his family were inside, the candidate said Tuesday. Aaron Marin, a Republican running for the District 1 seat, said in a social media post that shots were “intentionally directed only...

Anne Blythe/NC Health News When Lee Zeldin, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced almost 10 months ago that the federal regulator would reevaluate research on potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water, he said “sound science” would be used to “advance our mission of protecting human and...

Port City Daily City officials and the local water authority are asking locals to tell the state “no” when it comes to one North Carolina town’s request to purchase water daily from the Cape Fear River to help supply the needs of its rapidly growing municipality. The Fuquay-Varina Interbasin Transfer...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city of High Point’s consideration of a new downtown service district tax drew more opposition and questions than support, according to surveys of businesses within the proposed boundaries. While respondents expressed satisfaction with current city levels of service, there was a lack of clarity...

The Watauga Democrat  A local business was among 10 across the state that were recently fined for price scanning errors. The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Standards Division fined 10 stores in nine counties for price scanning errors during the final quarter of 2025. The Staples located at...