How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump archive.ph/ZKkj0

NC is selling more lottery tickets but giving less to schools, new audit shows #ncpol Only 16 cents from every dollar? Where does the money go?

Sunny and breezy in Wilmington. Temp: 40 degrees

Major NC Stories from 2025 Republican majority on the NC elections board replaced the executive director ncnewsline.com/2025/12/30/n...

How the state is attempting to prevent the next mountain flood, with native plants: Case-in-point: The Clyde Project:

The cold front has passed and winter weather has returned to the Carolinas. 20 degrees in Asheville #ncwx

Will Rent Strikes Spread in the Coming Year?

NC is selling more lottery tickets but giving less to schools, new audit shows #ncpol Only 16 cents from every dollar? Where does the money go?

High Wind warnings in the mountains. Here's the bridge replacement project ongoing in Watauga County -NC 105 wataugaonline.com/105-bridge-p...

These politicians want to return to congress, including -guess who: Western NC's Madison Cawthorn who wants to run for a seat from Florida #ncpol archive.ph/AYJeT

Cloudy skies over downtown Clinton this morning. Temp a mild 64 degrees #ncwx

Scattered showers, temperatures will plunge in North Carolina late in the day as the cold front brings wind and cold air #ncwx

High winds will accompany the approaching cold front as it moves through North Carolina. #ncwx

Cloudy skies over Raleigh this morning, and the rest of the state. Temp: 41 - warmer tomorrow then a cold front moves in for New Years.

For the second year in a row, fact checks about immigration and Hurricane Helene relief efforts topped PolitiFact North Carolina’s list of most-read articles. www.wral.com/news/state/p...

Another day, another exploding natural gas pipeline closing roads, trapping people, sowing terror. If only there were some other way to cook food, heat homes, and make electricity that was cheap, safe, and didn’t blow up or wreck the climate. #FossilFuelsSoRetrogressive apple.news/AiX6695XnSym...

Despite Governor Josh Stein's strong win at the voting booth, Republican lawmakers have removed a great many of his powers to govern. This is a common GOP ploy and needs to change. #ncpol www.propublica.org/article/nort...

Hallmark returns to Biltmore for a second Christmas movie, extras being recruited wlos.com/news/local/h...

Sunny at the Wright Brothers Memorial on Kill Devil Hills. Temp: 51 Degrees #ncwx #OBX

Expected highs across the state today: 70 in Asheville, 75 in Charlotte, 72 in Greensboro, 70 in Raleigh and 71 in Wilmington. Mostly fair skies in Greensboro #ncwx

A major housing project on Asheville's Depot Street is mostly welcomed, but brings parking concerns for the area. #avl wlos.com/news/local/r...

Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...

Cloudy skies over Raleigh-Durham Airport as a Frontier Jet prepares for takeoff. Temp 48 #ncwx

#ncpol #FEMA -A disgrace indeed...

More controversy about the former Cary Town Manager: Mayor now says he went around council to buy land

Let us not forget, that Thom Tillis was the deciding vote that put Hegseth in the Pentagon. #ncpol

Asheville is warmer than Raleigh this morning. In Raleigh the expected high today: 53, which is near seasonal normals. Scattered sprinkles in the mountains. #ncwx

North Carolina Congressman Tim Moore has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in this year's Congress. Moore has also been cited numerous times for late, incomplete or incorrect disclosures of his stock trading, as legally required under the STOCK Act.

Governor Stein allocates $300 million to extend high speed internet to underserved parts of NC #ncpol wlos.com/news/local/g...

This morning at the Grove Park Inn, Asheville. Merry Christmas!

Sunset at Zebulon Historic Town Hall. Temp: 68

Christmas Eve on the Raleigh Beltline now #ncwx

A few clouds over Grandfather Mountain this evening

Some nice sunset views across North Carolina this week. Here's the Cape Fear Riverfront in Wilmington this evening.

A mild afternoon near sunset in Burlington. Temp: 64

It's going to be a warm North Carolina Christmas. In some locations, high temp records could be broken #ncwx

A few people out for a stroll at Sunset Beach Pier this Christmas Eve Day. Temp 63

Novo Nordisk's new weight loss pills will be manufactured in the company's North Carolina plants- in the Triangle, Durham and Clayton

NC official who wore FBI wire to catch crooked billionaire urges Trump not to pardon him www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Durham Bulls Athletic Park tonight with Duke University in the background. 61 degrees #ncwx

The Raleigh Beltline this evening after sunset #ncwx

The grinch is back....

Ice rink this evening at the Fenton Shopping Center in Cary. Temp: 58 degrees #ncwx

The campus of Wake Forest University this morning. Heading for a high today of 60 #ncwx

Services for former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt are set for Friday, Dec. 26 in Wilson NC wlos.com/news/local/f...

The calls give a look into a chaotic week in Charlotte, when federal agents arrested several hundred people, and when thousands protested.

Three Democrats will compete in March to be Wake County’s next district attorney when longtime DA Lorrin Freeman steps down; most other races won’t see competitive elections until the fall.

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Housing affordability, availability top the news in 2025