North Carolina News
News from our fellow NPR affiliate sites around North Carolina: WFAE in Charlotte, WUNC in the triangle, WFDD in the triad, and BPR in Asheville. Plus, reports from the NC Newsroom.
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Residents gathered to honor the Capitol police who were injured that day or have since died.
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A status conference for the Camp Lejeune Justice Act cases is scheduled for Friday at the Alton Lennon Federal Building and Courthouse in Wilmington before Magistrate Judge Robert B. Jones Jr.; it starts at 11 a.m.
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Health officials say a trio of vaccine-preventable illnesses is circulating during an already busy winter virus season.
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New business formations reached record pace in North Carolina in the second half of 2025. Elaine Marshall says her team needs more staff to handle all the paperwork.
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Officials presented the check at Bolton Elementary Tuesday morning, kicking off a week of deliveries to every school in the system.
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The town expects the wave to officially open this summer and is hoping for a boom in new tourist dollars.
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Historic Bethabara Park's volunteer community gardeners will have to find a new place to plant beginning this weekend.
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Duke plans to replace its existing coal power plants with nuclear reactors before 2040. These power plants take an average of 10 years to build. The utility submitted an early site permit application for potential new nuclear development in North Carolina.
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Complaints about large vehicles blocking residential streets prompted city leaders to approve a new $50 parking fine.
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Teachers at dozens of schools across the state could walk out in protest of low teacher pay on Wednesday. It’s the second time in recent months that a statewide effort like this has been planned.
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“It just seems like we have a rogue administration going off doing whatever they want,” said one demonstrator during Monday’s protest at the Green Street Bridge.
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For the first time in state history, Republicans hold a lead in registrations over Democrats.