Joseph Williams/The Whiteville News Reporter After building his career in local government, Whiteville native Sean Martin has been chosen as the city’s next city manager. Following a months-long search, Whiteville City Council unanimously approved his hiring at its Tuesday night meeting. Martin will replace Darren Currie, who retired Dec. 31...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A proposal to begin the process of redrawing Pender County’s voting districts was tabled this week and moved to next month for consideration. Pender County commissioners voted 3-2 — Brad George and Jimmy Tate dissenting — on Jan. 20 to take up the redistricting resolution on...

WRAL News The Outer Banks lost four houses in two days in Buxton. Since 2020, 31 houses have fallen into the ocean along Hatteras Island. The latest winter storm brought a historic snow to the coast, creating blizzard conditions. With over 60 mph wind gusts, Buxton saw high tides that...

The High Point Enterprise The Guilford County Board of Commissioners on Friday afternoon announced the appointment of Carolyn Thompson, a former state appellate court judge, as the new county attorney for Guilford County government. Thompson, whose background includes serving as a District and Superior Court judge, starts in her new...

Elena Marsh/The Southern Pines Pilot As Carthage grows, so too does its utility needs. To prepare for all growth scenarios, the town’s Board of Commissioners is set to weigh the merits of creating a policy based on how they want to allocate water and sewer. Carthage’s water treatment plant currently...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News The clock is ticking for lawmakers in North Carolina — the only state in the nation without an approved budget — to settle on a plan to cover rising administrative costs for Medicaid. That was the key takeaway from a presentation that Melanie Bush, assistant secretary...

Jesse Pierre/WCNC News LaChunda Hunter didn’t think she could have kids. When she learned she was pregnant, she called it a miracle. That miracle quickly became a nightmare after birth. A mother is suing Novant Health and local doctors after she says serious mistakes left her wondering if the child...

Mike Schneider/The Associated Press Move over Florida and Texas. The United States has new hot spots for growth, and they both have Carolina in their name. North Carolina last year attracted more new residents, 84,000 people, from other parts of the country than any other state, a title held by...

Dylan Halper & Rebecca Fan/The (Duke) Chronicle Discussion of the National Institutes of Health’s contentious moves over the past year to cut research funding for universities was notably absent during a Tuesday virtual fireside chat with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. Instead, Bhattacharya — who has served as the 18th director...

Doug Coats/WJZY A new John Deere factory will bring more than 150 jobs to the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina. The agricultural equipment Tuesday company announced a new $70 million facility in Kernersville, to manufacture excavators. The factory will assume production of future generation excavators previously produced in Japan,...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online The call from the North Carolina Attorney General’s office late last year relayed news of a victory. A federal judge in Boston on Dec. 11, 2025, sided with Jeff Jackson and 19 other state attorneys general in their case against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, informed...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Mission Hospital in Asheville is once again facing “Immediate Jeopardy,” just a few months after getting the same designation wiped by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Greg Lowe, president of the Mission Health system which operates the hospital, informed hospital employees of the...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Hundreds of people gathered Friday outside the federal courthouse in uptown Charlotte to protest recent actions by federal immigration authorities in Minneapolis. Chants echoed through the crowd as demonstrators held signs reading “Stop Truth Decay” and “Enough Lies.” Protesters spoke out against the killing of two U.S....

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News The seeds of chaos sown into the fertile soil of the embattled Fontana Regional Library system over the last few years have sprouted. The FRL Board of Trustees has struggled to function over the last year, but things have come to a head the last couple...

Lauren Rhodes/WUNC News If you’ve ever wondered what happens to old Christmas trees, you might just need to look under your feet. Each year, Wake County gives live, undecorated trees new life by turning them into nutrient-rich mulch through their Happy Trails Christmas Tree Recycling Program. The mulch is used...