Haylee Kennedy/WNCN Parents, teachers and students took part in a heated debate during a Wake County Public School board meeting regarding a potential gender-based dress code in the classroom. “I also sent my kids to public school so that they would experience some of the diversity that I lacked as...

Miana Massey/WSOC Children’s advocates joined Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden Wednesday in a push to reopen the juvenile jail. The sheriff’s office closed the jail in 2022, sending children and teenage inmates to other counties. In May, Channel 9 reported on McFadden’s plans to reopen the facility, known as Jail...

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District to its “Districts in Play” program, targeting longtime Republican incumbent Rep. Richard Hudson. This program focuses on competitive districts held by vulnerable Republicans across the country as Democrats seek to regain a majority in the...

Dylan Halper/The Duke Chronicle Duke’s graduate schools admitted significantly fewer doctoral students in their last two application cycles, which the schools largely attributed to uncertainty over federal research funding. Specifically, Duke admitted 32.4% fewer doctorate students for the 2025-26 academic year than the 2024-25 academic year, which had a complete...

Jason DeBruyn/WUNC News After travelling around the moon and back, astronaut and three-time N.C. State University graduate Christina Koch will come back to the Raleigh university to celebrate her accomplishments. Koch flew with the Artemis II mission in April, which slingshot around the moon and captured never-before-seen photos of the...

Woody Cain/WFAE Radio Early voting is underway in South Carolina’s Republican special primary for the U.S. Senate, and the Silfab Solar plant in Fort Mill became a point of contention during a debate Tuesday night near Charleston. Businessman Mark Lynch criticized U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman over his support for the...

Molly Steur/Education NC The North Carolina Association for Public Charter Schools (NCAPCS) has entered into a new partnership with Building Hope, a national nonprofit, that opens a line of credit for North Carolina charter schools. The partnership will allow schools to access funds from the $52.9 million federal Charter Schools...

Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News Fans hoping to purchase Carolina Hurricanes season tickets for the 2026-27 campaign will have to look elsewhere. The Hurricanes announced Wednesday that all full-season, half-season and quarter-season ticket plans for the upcoming year have officially sold out following their seat selection process. The team has reserved...

WITN News Farmville town commissioners voted unanimously Monday to approve a 12-month freeze on data centers. During this time, the town staff will review ordiance language and develop standards for unique land uses. The vote followed a public hearing during the board’s regular meeting, where residents spoke out against the...

Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer After a few trial balloons testing a social district this winter and spring, downtown Waynesville locals and visitors showed they could behave themselves while strolling about the sidewalks with alcoholic beverages in hand. And soon, social districts won’t just coincide with special events, but become a...

Tom Fiedler/Asheville Watchdog Suddenly the Republican Party— locally and nationally— has its own Graham Platner crisis. Can Chuck Edwards (R-NC 11) survive a sexual-conduct scandal of his own? Or will his party here at home sacrifice him for a substitute in the hope of keeping control of the House of...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The embattled Cumberland County elections director abruptly retired  Saturday, four months after the three Republicans on the five-member county Board of Elections tried to have her fired, and 11 days after the three, plus a Democrat, sought her dismissal a second time. “This was not an easy decision...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN A Raleigh business owner was sentenced to federal prison for hiding bankruptcy assets, the Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina said Monday. According to federal prosecutors, 51-year-old Tracey Dixon Perry was the owner and operator of Dixon Paving, Inc., a Raleigh-based...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press If you follow the news in North Carolina, sooner or later you will come across a reference to the “Local Government Commission” or “LGC.” This is something unique to North Carolina, so those who have moved into the state may be scratching their heads about what...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Officials in Greensboro and Randolph County took steps to address concerns around data centers Monday night. The Greensboro City Council is considering a 120-day moratorium on data center development. If enacted, the pause would specifically apply to facilities with an electrical power demand above 10 megawatts. Council...