WRAL News The former Newton Grove police chief, who was charged with secret peeping and indecent liberties with a minor, now faces more charges. Greg Warren was charged with trafficking, opium or heroin and possessing a weapon of mass destruction. The 50-year-old Warren appeared in Sampson County court on Thursday...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education again failed to elect a new chair and vice chairperson during a heated meeting Tuesday night. The board’s been in a stalemate for nearly a month, which has allowed Chairperson Deanna Kaplan to retain her role despite not receiving a nomination....

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily One local beach town is trying out a new tactic to entice jobseekers to its doorsteps, following a request for action from its town manager. Earlier this week, the Carolina Beach Town Council voted unanimously in favor of increasing merit raises from 2% to 4% to...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Accusations of secrecy, mismanagement, and withheld documents have fractured the nonprofit Fayetteville‑Cumberland County Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Committee, putting the future of the taxpayer‑funded MLK Park project in jeopardy. Some civic leaders are even calling for committee chair Stanley Ford to resign. “I’m hurt and embarrassed...

The High Point Enterprise The remaining machinery and equipment of High Point upholstery manufacturer Woodmark Furniture, which closed last fall as a result of its parent company going out of business, will be liquidated at auction next week. Parent company Howard Miller Co. announced the Jan. 20 auction on Thursday....

WRAL News The federal government granted another $116 million in disaster relief funding to North Carolina intended to support the state’s recovery from Hurricane Helene and to prevent future disaster damage across the state. Some of the money is for public assistance programs, and some is for what’s called disaster...

Caroline Vakil/The Hill Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) is touting a more than $9.5 million haul in the fourth quarter of fundraising of 2025, easily outpacing former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Whatley’s haul in the North Carolina Senate race, according to figures first shared with The...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio North Carolina is facing a looming deadline to find more funding to cover new federal work requirements for Medicaid. President Trump’s megabill that became law last summer requires most Medicaid recipients to work, volunteer or receive job training at least 20 hours a week. But it will...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh A pair of Raleigh’s newest office towers has been sold for $210 million — a significant decrease from the record sum of $330 million the two towers fetched in 2022. Why it matters: The new owner is a partnership between Raleigh’s largest landlord, Highwoods Properties, and the...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Randolph County Commissioners could be voting on new bylaws for the recently dissolved public library board of trustees in the coming weeks. Back in December, the commissioners dismissed all of the trustees after they voted to keep a book about a transgender boy in the children’s section...

Joshua Bay/Inside Higher Ed What was once an underused mobile app at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been rebuilt to serve as a central hub for student information and services. The app, Hello Heels, was relaunched during first-year orientation last fall after undergoing a redesign following...

Taylor Ford & Nixon Norman/WFMY News A longtime Greensboro civil rights activist and housing advocate whose work helped shape the city for generations has died. Willena R. Cannon, a tireless advocate for justice and community change, died Saturday at her home in Greensboro after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according...

Janet Briggs/The Salisbury Post     The Ford City Motor Lofts project at 419 South Main Street recently received a $500,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. This grant will cover some of the unexpected increased construction costs since the project started. The Ford City Motor Lofts are a...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio A group of Buddhist monks is walking through the Charlotte area this week as part of a 2,300-mile peace walk from Texas to Washington, D.C. The monks began their journey in October and arrived Tuesday night at Catawba Baptist Church in Rock Hill, where thousands of people...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Restoring land as close to how it was more than two centuries ago is by no means a cheap venture. Just ask Louis Moore Bacon. Since 2012, Bacon has invested more than $100 million in the property on which his ancestor, Roger Moore, founded Orton Plantation...