David Ford/WFDD Radio This weekend in High Point, renowned Danish artist Thomas Dambo will unveil his enormous new outdoor troll sculpture. Just west of downtown, there’s a small clearing in some vine-covered woods behind an abandoned sock factory. There sits a smiling, 18-foot-tall troll. Her name is Little Sally. Dambo...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN The victim of a homicide in Wake County almost 60 years ago has been identified, the sheriff’s office said on Thursday. According to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, the body of a woman was discovered on April 28, 1968, in a field near Lake Wheeler Road and Ten...

Capt. Gordon Churchill/Coastal Review Online I’m now in my 60th year of life. I started fishing before I was even old enough to have a memory of it. I’ve been fly fishing since I was 10 years old. The math is pretty easy. During that time I’ve lived in North...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Henderson County has not only lost a $12.7 million grant to fund the Clear Creek sewer line in Edneyville but most likely would forfeit an option B —making major repairs to the failing Etowah sewer system. That was among the revelations to come out of a meeting...

Justin Jouvenal/The Washington Post The Supreme Court appeared skeptical of arguments Wednesday that President Donald Trump has legal authority to impose tariffs on a vast range of goods from nearly all countries, signaling the justices could strike down or limit the administration’s signature economic policy. The justices sharply questioned Solicitor...

The Associated Press Video game maker Epic Games has reached a “comprehensive settlement” with Google that could end its 5-year-old legal crusade targeting Google’s Play Store for Android apps. Epic and Google revealed the settlement agreement in a joint legal document they filed in a San Francisco federal court Tuesday....

David A. Lieb/The Associated Press The new congressional map that California voters approved marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election. But Republicans are still ahead in the fight. The unusual mid-decade redistricting fray began this summer when President Donald...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News When the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina began renovating its Sandhills branch in 2023, the nonprofit did not expect the project’s completion to coincide with the threat of a national hunger crisis. The $1 million overhaul of the Moore County facility, which also...

Caroline Parker/Education NC Dr. Tabitha Miller went to 13 different K-12 schools growing up. Her father was a traveling evangelist, preaching at tent revivals across the Midwest. Her mother told stories of watching tornados form on the Great Plains while they were staying in Kansas. They lived a long stretch...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily Aerosol spray, nearly hour-long speeches, and neighborly disputes have all been part of recent public comment periods at the Southport Board of Aldermen meetings. Now, the aldermen are taking a step in the direction of restoring civility. On Monday, the aldermen voted 5 to 1 (Lowe...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The steady loss of workers who keep Waynesville’s water running and streets clean has town leaders on edge. At the Oct. 28 meeting, council heard grim numbers and took action, voting to fund a pay study meant to stop an exodus that’s led to tremendous turnover...

Outer Banks Voice Retired Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett has announced his candidacy for the District 1 seat in the NC Senate. That seat is currently held by Republican Bobby Hanig, who is running for Congress next year in a reconfigured First Congressional District. This past May, Tillett retired from...

Christopher Long/The Wilson Times The Wilson Planning and Design Review Board unanimously voted in favor of approving two rezoning requests for future residential projects during Tuesday night’s monthly meeting. Board members approved rezoning 115.48 acres along U.S. Highway 264 Alternate West between Wilson and Sims to develop a conditional low-density...

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline A plurality of North Carolinians hold President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress responsible for the federal government shutdown, a new Catawba College-YouGov poll found, but Democrats and “all elected officials” are also taking blame. Asked who they think is “most responsible for the current...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio For the first time in years, going back to the onset of the pandemic, North Carolina saw more child care programs close than open this August. “That is extremely worrisome,” said Amy Cubbage, president of the North Carolina Partnership for Children and the statewide Smart Start network....