Lauren Rhodes/WUNC News Former U.S. congressman and state senator Wiley Nickel has clinched the role of Wake County District Attorney. With all precincts reporting, Nickel had secured 49% of the vote in the three-candidate race. Nickel is perhaps the best-known candidate in the Democratic bid to replace Lorrin Freeman, who...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press North Carolina community colleges and public universities are rapidly approaching a federal deadline to ensure their website and mobile content has sufficient accessibility for people with disabilities. When the US Department of Justice updated Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 2024, the agency...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A county commissioner’s stalking reports made against a local media publisher have been dismissed by local and state authorities. Pender County’s Commissioner Jerry Groves filed two reports of stalking on Andy Pettigrew, the owner of the Pender Post — one in July and the other in...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A shuttered factory will be put back into use as part of an expansion by its new owner. Davis Furniture last week purchased the former Woodmark Furniture property at 1920 Jarrell St. adjoining its south High Point campus. It plans to begin renovations to the...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood is poised to earn his fourth term in the role, as he is projected to win Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Blackwood led with 58.41% of the vote in Orange County, compared to Durham County Sheriff’s Office employee and David LaBarre’s 41.59%. The race...

Scott Wong & Frank Thorp V/NBC News During a tense public hearing Tuesday, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign over her handling of the deadly Minneapolis immigration operation. And he blasted her for killing her dog, which she had described in her memoir...

Richard Stradling/The Raleigh News & Observer Gas prices have spiked across North Carolina after the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran over the weekend. The average price of regular gas rose 15 cents overnight to $2.91 a gallon, according to AAA. The average diesel price is up nearly 18 cents, to $3.75...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News A statewide group that has focused on improving the health of mothers and babies since 2009 has been winding down its work since it lost state funding last October. Work has been going on behind the scenes, however, to get that funding restored, legislators said last...

Ryan Kilgallen & Seyun Park//The Duke Chronicle The Duke community might just be getting a little bigger. The university is close to finalizing an agreement with Durham Technical Community College to guarantee admission into the Pratt School of Engineering for select community college students graduating with an Associate of Engineering...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Charlotte City Council on Monday night cleared the way for the controversial Interstate 77 toll lanes project to move forward, just days after speaking out forcefully against the expansion. Council members reversed course after the North Carolina Department of Transportation agreed to delay by three months...

Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom North Carolina environmental officials are asking a state judge to force the company that operated an unpermitted mine in Mitchell County to prevent pollution they say is running off the site and into the Nolichucky River. In a Feb. 17 filing in Mitchell County Superior Court, the...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The N.C. State Board of Elections on Wednesday rejected a request from Godwin town board candidate Dennis Smith Sr. to throw out the results of the town’s November election and hold a new one. The vote was 4-1. Smith told CityView he intends to appeal the decision and...

Morgan Casey/Border Belt Independent The N.C. State Board of Elections denied a protest appeal from a Red Springs mayoral candidate who claimed that employees of an assisted living facility improperly helped residents vote. Duron Burney, who has served on the town’s Board of Commissioners since 2011, lost the November election...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Wave Transit staff revealed to its board last week it will need an additional $800,000 — plus potentially $650,000 for another bus — to reach on-time performance in its Wave Reimagine plan implemented a year ago. Wilmington and New Hanover County elected leaders would need to...

Richard Holm/Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald Patrick Brian Ricks was sworn in as a magistrate for Halifax County on Friday, as judges took the opportunity to highlight new bond policies in Judicial District 7. Inside the Halifax County Superior Courtroom, Superior Court Judge Brenda Branch welcomed everyone for the occasion. Chief...