Two days before the Feb. 6 registration deadline, Natalie Jewett-Dutt went online and changed her party affiliation from Democrat to unaffiliated. She is one of 168 Democrats in Dare County who have changed their registration to unaffiliated since May, 2025, according to Dare County Board of Elections data. Another 52...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Duke Energy says it needs to add a lot of additional power generation to its energy portfolio in the coming years to meet future demand driven by North Carolina’s population growth and success in attracting new businesses. A Wilmington-based company could help the utility giant meet...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A North Carolina court has ruled that the state’s lead environmental agency has the authority to set 1,4-dioxane discharge limits for public wastewater utilities. The ruling reverses a 2024 administrative law judge’s determination that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality did not follow the proper...

Port City Daily The Pender County Board of Education will be looking into strengthening district policies related to nonprofit organizations in the wake of the arrest of Topsail Athletic Booster’s club treasurer on Wednesday. The board voted in a special meeting last week to begin reviewing Pender County Schools’ policy...

WRAL News The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles announced a new batch of self-service kiosks on Monday across grocery stores in Raleigh, Apex, Wake Forest and Fayetteville. NCDMV commissioner Paul Tine announced 10 new locations, bringing the state to a total of 20 kiosks across three counties — Wake,...

Ashley Fredde/NC Health News Sunlight pours through stained glass windows onto rows of wooden pews that, on occasion, still hold hymnals. But Milner Memorial Presbyterian Church, where those same windows once illuminated weekly worship, is gone. In its place stands Milner Commons, an affordable housing complex for older adults that...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The High Point City Council Thursday gave its blessing to continue plans for a potential new City Hall facility despite concerns it might entail a tax increase. During its strategic planning retreat at City Lake Park, the council discussed whether a $70 million project that...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Thermo Fisher Scientific recently announced a collaboration between its clinical research division, PPD, and data collection platform Datavant. The “strategic data collaboration” aims to make it easier for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to connect real-world data with clinical research, according to a news release issued this week by...

Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Shining Rock Classical Academy Charter School will likely close its high school at the end of this school year due to unsustainable enrollment numbers in grades 9-12. The high school, with only 103 students, has an annual operating deficit of $200,000 that is draining resources from...

Elisabeth Strillacci/ Salisbury Post     Joshua Harrington, a candidate for Rowan County commissioner, has often discussed his military background and time in the Marine Corps on his social media pages and in his podcasts. He has shared details of harrowing “abuse” by drill instructors at Parris Island in South Carolina in...

Catherine Muccigrosso/The Charlotte Observer Lowe’s home improvement chain, one of the Charlotte region’s largest employers, has just cut hundreds of jobs. “We have made the difficult decision to reduce approximately 600 corporate and support roles,” the Mooresville-based home improvement chain confirmed Friday. That’s less than 1% of its total workforce....

Rose Hoban/NC Health News About 15 years ago, Myron Cohen helped change the course of a pandemic. Cohen, who’s has been an infectious disease researcher and administrator at UNC Chapel Hill for more than four decades, was lauded worldwide in 2011 for leading a seminal study showing a stunning result: ...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press The snow and ice that coated North Carolina from mountains to sea, and kept kids home from school for days, has finally begun melting in most places. But as the state thaws, schools will have to confront the damage the winter weather did to the academic...

Anna Claire Walker/The Carolina Journal North Carolina’s manufacturing sector reported one of the largest yearly job losses of any major industry. Unemployment rates have declined across North Carolina, while overall employment increased in other sectors, according to new data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The manufacturing job market...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press A judge sentenced an 18-year-old who acknowledged killing five people in a North Carolina mass shooting to life in prison without parole Friday, rejecting arguments that he deserved the chance for release decades from now. Austin David Thompson was 15 during the Oct. 13, 2022,...