DHS officials said nearly 1,400 ICE detainers statewide went unacted upon, resulting in the release of individuals with prior arrests for violent crimes, sexual offenses, and other serious charges.

At a November meeting of GROW NC — the Governor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency for Western North Carolina, held on Nov. 14 in Spruce Pine, state officials detailed the mounting challenges local communities face as they work to rebuild after Hurricane Helene.

Multiple published reports say the Border Patrol agents working in and around Chicago are relocating to Charlotte and New Orleans. A social media post from Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for Public Affairs at Homeland Security, said, “We aren’t leaving Chicago.”

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.

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.