Brian Dabbs & Francisco “A.J.” Camacho/E&E News The Trump administration wants to churn dirt on a bevy of new nuclear power plants. Electric utilities that power America have different plans. Despite forecasts for spiking electricity use and pledges from the Department of Energy to bolster nuclear power, utilities aren’t inking...

Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News Chris Hatton oversees a 15-officer police force in a small western North Carolina town in Jackson County — a place where he says many calls to 911 aren’t really police matters at all. A “suspicious” person loitering. Someone yelling in the street. A person rummaging through...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Declaring that Henderson County commissioners had made “incorrect statements” about the status of a $12.7 million sewer system grant, state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom on Tuesday night asked commissioners to correct the record. “Given that the article’s language — including ‘lost,’ ‘defunded,’ ‘slapped around,’ and warnings that the...

WCHL Chapelboro While the longest federal government shutdown in the United States’ history garnered much attention across recent weeks, North Carolina’s government is facing its own operational roadblock. While the state is still functioning, it is doing so without a new comprehensive, two-year budget — becoming the last state in...

Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio Yessica Arias, owner of Central Friends Tires, says U.S. Border Patrol agents took one of her employees, a Nicaraguan man who was her “best mechanic,” and had no criminal record. The man had been seeking asylum in the U.S. As part of a sweeping immigration...

Jane Porter/IndyWeek Following a debate over a longstanding dispute at the Apex Town Council meeting Thursday evening, town leaders still haven’t found a good solution to what they’ve considered to be a significant problem in recent years: an Apex resident operating a for-profit parking lot in a residential area near...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily The reins have been pulled in a little tighter when it comes to regulating ATVs on Carolina Beach. The town council voted 4-1 with council member Joe Benson dissenting at its Nov. 12 meeting to approve text amendments for Chapter 28 Section 28-1 ordinance on beach...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Deepening the Wilmington Harbor would disperse PFAS now mingling in the riverbed’s sediment into marshes and onto public beaches, accelerate erosion, exacerbate flooding, destroy habitat, and is not economically justified, area residents said during a state-hosted public hearing. Many who spoke at the North Carolina Division...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise Election officials will conduct a recount of the close race for Thomasville mayor in which the top two candidates are separated by 17 votes out of more than 2,300 ballots cast. Councilman Jacquez Johnson, the second-place finisher, requested the recount. He had until noon...

Gary D. Robertson & Tim Sullivan/The Associated Press Federal agents expanded their North Carolina immigration crackdown to the Raleigh area on Tuesday, the mayor of the capital city said, as Border Patrol officers carried on with their sweep of the state’s largest city, Charlotte. Speaking at a city council meeting,...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio As U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents continue an immigration enforcement operation across Charlotte, businesses along South Boulevard — one of the city’s main commercial corridors for immigrant communities — are seeing steep drops in customers. Many shops are dark, parking lots sit empty, and some owners...

Allen G. Breed/The Associated Press Marc Simmons hadn’t heard from his estranged friend in nearly seven years. Then, Nigel Max Edge showed up at his work and falsely accused Simmons of stealing his identity. They met taking community college classes and bonded over their time with the Marines in Iraq....

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press A recent wave of staffing changes at the State Board of Elections began with a bill originally intended to make the Moravian star North Carolina’s state star. But as is often the case at the legislature, the final product ended up entirely different. After the state...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The Fayetteville City Council and Cumberland County Board of Commissioners each voted unanimously on Thursday to combine their 911 call centers, but they disagreed on how to govern the consolidated service. At issue: Whether the city and the county would jointly operate the combined call center, or, instead,...

Adam Wagner/WFDD Radio The 10 therapists who work at KM Pediatric Therapy see about 200 kids each week, owner Stephanie Molina told Democratic lawmakers Monday, about 70% of whom are covered by Medicaid. Molina warned Monday that practices like hers that are already being stretched by administrative demands are at...