New Hanover County poll worker Sandra Bell, right, helps voters deposit their ballots into a machine at Williston Middle in Wilmington on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024. Jane Winik Sartwell / Carolina ...

Florida-based Paradigm promised jobs from a battery plant in storm-battered Burnsville. With no progress, Yancey Co. wants ...

Needle exchanges, disease testing, providing Narcan and other harm reduction efforts navigate complexities of Western NC communities.

A Wake County precinct official opens the doors to the John Chavis Memorial Park polling site at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, in Raleigh for the first day of early voting. Sarah Michels / ...

The NC Department of Public Instruction has a bold goal to boost public school enrollment. So far, there's not been much ...

The use of school restrooms designated for one sex by transgender individuals who are biologically of the opposite sex has become the subject of a federal investigation in Buncombe and Cabarrus ...

Traffic travels along Interstate 26 in Madison County, near the Tennessee line, seen here in August 2026. Walker Livingston / Carolina Public Press The North Carolina Welcome Center on Interstate 26 ...

When Anderson Clayton took control of the North Carolina Democratic Party at 25 years old, she knew she needed to make some changes. The previous election cycle, Democrats had left a quarter of the ...

High Point Police Chief Curtis Cheeks III says his agency screens job applicants carefully. Provided / City of High Point Anyone who wants to work as an officer for the High Point Police Department ...

Part of a long line of Orange County voters around 2:30 p.m. on the first day of early voting for the general election in 2024 at the Department of Social Services early voting site in Hillsborough.

Former Swain Co. sheriff faces sex crime charges from NC and Cherokees. He might avoid NC prosecution if judge buys mental ...