Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press What you see is not always what you get in the North Carolina legislature. For decades, lawmakers have used a “gut-and-amend” strategy to quickly pass legislation without much, if any, time for the public, opposing advocacy groups — and sometimes, other lawmakers — to weigh in....

Jeffrey Collins/The Associated Press A man who says members of a secretive North Carolina religious group held him down and beat him wants the prosecutor kicked off his case, accusing the district attorney of siding with a church that dozens of former congregants have said abused them. Matthew Fenner said...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio The Union County chapter of the NAACP says Union County Public Schools has failed to make good on an agreement to partner on several education initiatives — an accusation the school district denies. Union County NAACP president Archie Hansley said in a news release and at a...

Mebane Rash/Education NC The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has launched a new earnings indicator for students as part of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) process, according to a press release. Using existing federal data, the indicator provides students and their families with information about a school’s...

Sarah Nagem/CityView A revised national defense spending agreement released this week would give full federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Congress is expected to vote in the coming days or weeks on the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, a $900 billion compromise between the U.S House and...

Kevin Ellis/Business North Carolina   Qualicaps will close its Guilford County facility late next year, resulting in the loss of 91 jobs, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the state. French-based Roquette America acquired the facility on Warner Parkway in Whitsett in 2023 when it...

WRAL News The Durham Police Department arrested the chief judge for Durham County’s District Court on allegations of domestic violence and assaulting a woman. Clayton Jones Jr., 47, of Durham, faces misdemeanor charges of assault on a female and domestic violence. Jones is accused of assaulting a woman, hitting her...

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline & Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina’s programs to repair and rebuild multi-family and workforce housing in western counties will begin accepting applications in early 2026, Gov. Josh Stein said this week. “Multi-family housing applications will be in the first part of the year,” Stein told reporters...

Annette Weston/Public Radio East Seventy-two years after service members were first exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune, and three years after the passage of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, litigation over the resulting health impacts remains ongoing, with a new motion filed this week in an attempt to speed...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Burlington and Asheboro: these two North Carolina cities are less than 50 miles apart, but when it comes to addressing the pollution each has caused in downstream drinking water on their respective rivers, the Haw and Deep rivers, they couldn’t be more different. One has...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger When Steve Hardman of Charlotte checked in to see a Novant Health sleep doctor earlier this year, the receptionist handed him a survey to fill out. Hardman, 66, had seen the questions before — Do you feel safe in your house? Can...

Erik Verduzco & Allen G. Breed/The Associated Press A North Carolina judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man to be held without bond in a non-fatal stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train that drew comments from President Donald Trump pointing out the suspect is in the country illegally. Oscar Solarzano,...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Tennessee Republican Matt Van Epps this week won a special U.S. House election for a conservative district that includes part of Nashville. The news, of course, was not that Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn, but that he only won by nine percentage points in a district...

Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press The slow pace of the federal antitrust suit lodged against NASCAR continued Monday at the start of the second week of the trial, with high-profile witnesses not expected to make it to the stand anytime soon. Jeffrey Kessler, lead attorney for the two teams suing NASCAR,...

Sarah Nagem/CityView North Carolina law prohibits anyone from serving in two elected positions—a county commissioner, for example, can’t also be a state senator. So some voters might wonder why John Lowery, chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina since 2022, can serve in the N.C. House. Lowery was appointed...