Republican Michael Whatley has the greatest polling deficit yet to Democrat Roy Cooper, trailing the former two-term governor by 8.7% in a sample released Thursday.

More than a year after Hurricane Helene slammed the Hickory Nut Gorge, Henderson County officials presented a detailed draft plan for long-term recovery at Bat Cave Baptist Church last week

The move clears the way for North Carolina to complete November payments for approximately 600,000 households.

A criminal-justice law passed this year is expected to send even more people into North Carolina’s already overburdened involuntary commitment system — a system hospital leaders and former law enforcement officers say is stretched thin, unsafe, and in urgent need of overhaul.

In early 2025, the Tri-City Violent Crimes Task Force began an investigation into criminal gang activity in the Tri-City area, focusing on a group identified as “448.”