Growing pains, schools and property taxes are hot issues in each of the three close NC legislative contests in Wake County in 2026.

State Rep. Gerald Pierce, D-Scotland, stands to debate Senate Bill 876, which would make local Moore County and Albemarle elections partisan, on Tuesday, June 16 in Raleigh. Sarah Michels / Carolina ...

In 2022, North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services approved new hospital beds to be built in Western North Carolina for the first time in more than a decade. According to the formula ...

Property owner describes Cherokee cultural artifacts and possibly burials. TVA plans transmission line there as data center drives demand.

NC House Speaker Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, speaks with reporters about the budget after a legislative session on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Sarah Michels / Carolina Public Press By the time the first ...

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University juniors Shia Rozier and Terence Olu Rouse hold a press conference on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, at the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro to ...

As Wilmington tries to handle an influx of newcomers, long-time residents worry about the loss of wetlands and forests in the transition. Jane Winik Sartwell / Carolina Public Press WILMINGTON — This ...

Public comment speakers at the Granville County Board of Elections meeting on July 15, 2026, in Oxford call for the board to reinstate two early voting sites. Sarah Michels / Carolina Public Press ...

New Bern ophthalmologist Jay Singleton is behind a major legal challenge to North Carolina's certificate-of-need law.

Shaniquah Ford of Nash County looks over a sample ballot with her sons, Ka'Son Whitaker, 11, and Kalil Whitaker, 9, at the Braswell Library in Rocky Mount before going in to vote on Nov. 7, 2018.

A staff member at the Foodbank for Central and Eastern North Carolina's Wilmington location looks into the freezer. Jane Winik Sartwell / Carolina Public Press This week has brought nothing but chaos ...