Wake school library policy draws warning from NC House leader
House Majority Leader Brenden Jones, R-Columbus, is promising an “immediate legislative response” after the Wake County Public School System stopped accepting challenges seeking the removal of library...
View ArticleBar owners take argument for Cooper deposition to NC Appeals Court
North Carolina bar owners seeking to question former Gov. Roy Cooper about his decision to keep their businesses closed during the COVID-19 pandemic are asking the state’s second-highest court for...
View ArticleDefendant hopes SCOTUS will take NC police ‘knock-and-talk’ case
A High Point man hopes the nation’s highest court will take his case challenging the “knock-and-talk” procedure police used to collect incriminating evidence against him in 2020. The US Supreme Court...
View ArticleJudge agrees to delay Comey arraignment to January
Former FBI Director James Comey will not appear in a federal courtroom in New Bern next week. A federal judge has agreed to delay until January Comey’s scheduled arraignment on federal charges that he...
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Jazz legend John Coltrane’s NC hometowns celebrate 100th birthday
Michelle Coltrane does not remember her famous father speaking a lot about his childhood in North Carolina, but she does think the internalized experiences from his time there may have resurfaced in...
View ArticleTask force rejects DPI push to grade schools on absenteeism
Nearly a quarter of North Carolina public school students missed enough school last year to be called chronically absent, but the state board task force rewriting school grades chose not to count it....
View ArticleCharlotte’s Tiawana Brown appeals 10-month prison sentence for fraud
Former Charlotte City Council member Tiawana Brown is appealing her 10-month prison sentence for COVID-related fraud. Brown filed a notice of appeal Thursday in federal court, two days after US...
View ArticleCharlotte-Mecklenburg school board splits 5-4 to fire superintendent
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education voted 5-4 Tuesday night to terminate Superintendent Dr. Crystal Hill, effective immediately. Under her contract, the district will pay her a full year’s...
View ArticleStein unveils long-term economic recovery plan for WNC
As the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene approaches on Sept. 27, Democratic Gov. Josh Stein and the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (GROW NC) have released details on a...
View ArticleNC House candidate faces scrutiny over use of Flock camera data
Democratic state House candidate Evonne Hopkins said during the Wake Forest Area Chamber’s 2026 Candidates Forum that she has used Flock camera data in her work as a family law attorney to catch...
View ArticleNRSC calls Politico report on shifting away from NC, Georgia ‘fake news’
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has called out a recent Politico report indicating that their focus would shift away from races in North Carolina and Georgia. Yet, the NRSC...
View ArticleLake Lure flooding raises downstream questions
Nearly two years after Hurricane Helene destroyed Lake Lure’s upstream flood gauges, emergency responders still rely on visual observations of river conditions, while the town operates a dam affecting...
View ArticleNC Ports targets refrigerated cargo in 5-year growth plan
Refrigerated cargo is a growing opportunity for North Carolina ports, and cold-chain cargo has already brought new commodities through the Port of Wilmington, according to Brian Clark, executive...
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Voting is underway: What’s on NC’s 2026 ballot
Voting is underway in North Carolina, with absentee ballots already in voters’ hands ahead of the Nov. 3 general election. The election features federal and state races, along with three proposed...
View ArticleState objects to sealing documents linked to Vinfast suit
The North Carolina Department of Commerce is objecting to Vinfast’s request to seal documents related to the state’s lawsuit against the auto manufacturer. A hearing on the issue is scheduled Tuesday...
View ArticleNC task force leans toward new way of measuring school growth
For more than a decade, a North Carolina school’s growth score — a measure of whether students made more or less progress than expected — has been calculated using statewide results from the same...
View ArticleMedia groups appeal ruling keeping UNC’s $1.2M SCiLL report secret
A media coalition is appealing a judge’s recent decision allowing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to keep a $1.2 million report confidential. The report covers UNC’s School of Civic...
View ArticleElias-linked groups file federal suit against NC mail-in ballot rules
Activist groups working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm have filed a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new state guidance for election officials handling mail-in ballots. The...
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Nearly $23M in Helene loans headed to western NC
Nearly $23 million in interest-free cashflow loans is being distributed to communities across western North Carolina that were devastated by Hurricane Helene in September 2024, North Carolina State...
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Former Charlotte council member sentenced to 10 months in COVID fraud case
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Charlotte City Council member Tiawana Brown to 10 months in federal prison for taking part in stealing COVID-19 relief money. A judge rejected prosecutors’...
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