New laws, executive orders and warnings of mass deportation from the Trump administration have many people, regardless of legal status, concerned about potential encounters with U

Congrats to two NC Lottery players on big Powerball wins! A player with a ticket from Smoker Friendly on Bragg Street in Sanford won a $50,000 prize and a player with a ticket from Country Store on Hurdle Mills Road in Hurdle Mills won a $150,000 prize! pic.twitter.com/4O2n50ejLw

Not much changed in this week’s N.C. statewide high school basketball rankings. Two new teams joined the boys’ and girls’ polls, which are sponsored by The Charlotte Observer and the News & Observer of Raleigh. Wake Prep Academy, from Wake Forest, is in at No. 10 in the 1A boys’ poll. The Guardians have won 13 straight games.

Start your week in North Carolina politics with our latest Under the Dome podcast, for the week of Jan. 27, 2025. Dawn Vaughan here, your podcast host and The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. Today’s Under the Dome newsletter is a preview of our new podcast that posted this morning.

Dozens of North Carolinians convicted of participating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol four years ago could be pardoned when President-elect Trump takes office Monday. Why it matters: More than 50 current or past North Carolinians have been charged in connection with the Jan.

Antonio Rodrigues, 70, had previously been convicted of felony stalking in two North Carolina counties, court records show.

A local company is working to help farmers in areas of North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene to provide grain for their animals. The last few weeks have been the coldest in recorded history in North Carolina,

The N&O spoke with an immigration attorney at the Durham-based firm Brown Immigration Law and the Siembra NC organization, which works to support families and communities affected by ICE, to learn what people should know about dealing with the agency.

A lot of commercial real estate lenders have used short-term loan extensions and modifications to delay writing off losses.

An air quality alert was issued on Thursday at 3:31 p.m. in effect until Friday at 7:15 a.m. The alert is for Burke Mountains, Greater Burke, McDowell Mountains and Eastern McDowell as well as Yancey and Mitchell counties.

A Jamaican citizen has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a US federal judge for his role in operating a Jamaica-based fraudulent lottery scheme. The man, 40 year-old Linton Stewart has also been ordered to pay over J$170 million in restitution to the scheme'

Here's a look at how the ACC's 18 men's basketball programs stack up heading into Saturday's Duke-North Carolina game: