Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog David Moritz’s campaign for Asheville City Council ended with a loss in Tuesday’s primary, but he hopes his message about the root cause of the city’s yawning budget gap – bloated staffing – will linger. Five years ago, employee pay and benefits consumed $100.7 million, or 54.5...

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice The fishing community and many on the Outer Banks breathed a major sigh of relief in June 2025 when a NC Senate measure that would have imposed a shrimp trawling ban died in the NC House. The hard-fought victory came after protestors opposed to the measure—which...

Ally Kadlubar & Willie Daniely, WRAL News Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is considering closing one or more of its elementary schools as it faces budget issues and declining enrollment rates. The school board has identified five schools that are more than 55 years old, saying it’s a financial decision between...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A new concept plan envisions a series of changes with the goal of improving the safety, walkability and connectivity of the S. Main Street corridor. The Plan South Main project, led by the Southwest Renewal Foundation, with funding assistance from the city of High Point,...

Matt Lamb/The Southern Pines Pilot Following the second appearance in as many months, Trevor Hansen of Koontz Jones Design/V3 and Travis Greene of Moore HL Properties received a nod of approval from the Pinehurst Planning and Zoning Board on a conditional rezoning for a new neighborhood. The zoning map amendment...

Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online As North Carolina’s population grows, local and state governments, elected officials, educators and nonprofit groups are bracing for the demands more residents will put on the state’s already taxed and aging water infrastructure. The 2026 Emerging Issues Forum: Future Forward Water held Feb. 25 brought together...

Michelle L. Price & Rebecca Santana/The Associated Press President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, including the handling of the administration’s immigration crackdown and disaster response. Trump, who said he would nominate Oklahoma Republican Sen....

Anna Claire Vollers/NC Newsline State Medicaid budgets will be reduced by a total of $665 billion over the next decade, after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts federal investment in the health insurance program, according to a new analysis. Researchers from RAND Health, a policy and research...

CNN Newsource & WRAL News A Raleigh firefighter and Marine veteran is facing charges after he was forcibly removed from a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Cell phone video shows 44-year-old Brian McGinnis, a Green Party Senate candidate, yelling, “No one wants to...

Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog David Moritz’s campaign for Asheville City Council ended with a loss in Tuesday’s primary, but he hopes his message about the root cause of the city’s yawning budget gap – bloated staffing – will linger. Five years ago, employee pay and benefits consumed $100.7 million, or 54.5...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News Last week, for the first time since 2017, the UNC Board of Governors voted to allow individual campuses to raise tuition. Supporters of that vote argued that the increased revenue will help address years of deferred maintenance, inflation, and ongoing budgetary pressures from the state and federal...

Will Atwater/NC Health News Ron Ross, 70, has spent decades in Charlotte’s Historic West End watching traffic thicken on nearby I‑77 and working alongside his neighbors to fight for cleaner air and a healthier future — one that includes electric cars. Now Ross and his neighbors are battling a North...

Judith Retana/WNCN A CBS 17 viewer reached out to our What’s Driving You Crazy line with concerns that some of Raleigh’s streets have needed repairs for years. Whether it is the heavily traveled Lassiter Mill Road south of North Hills or cul-de-sac neighborhoods, it can be rough riding around the...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio Stokes County voters resoundingly rejected both incumbent commissioners in Tuesday’s Republican primary. The vote came nearly two months after the board’s controversial approval of a massive data center in Walnut Cove. Rick Morris, who voted in favor of the proposal, came in last place in the eight-way...

Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio The weather is getting warmer with just a few weeks to go until spring. That means Charlotte’s airport will be getting busier as the travel season picks up. And Charlotte’s largest carrier — American — is in the midst of negotiating a new lease with the airport....