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

From absentee voting to early voting surges to controversies over polling sites, each NC county election director has eyes on ...

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 / ...

Political signs near the Henderson County Board of Elections office in Hendersonville last week included prominent ones for Jennifer Balkcom and Jamie Ager, who are facing off for the area's ...

Due to exhausted funds and concerns about excessive computer-screen time, some North Carolina public and private schools are considering reversing course on one-to-one device access and scaling back ...

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

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

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 ...