Following a turbulent year that led to the Eastern Music Festival's dissolution, the five-week summer music program is back under a new name: Eastern Festival of Music.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying warehouses across the U.S. to turn them into detention centers, and is reportedly looking at a warehouse in Concord.

This week, North Carolina joined 22 other states in filing a motion to enforce an earlier ruling that demanded FEMA release funding for the more than 2,000 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities projects left in limbo nationwide.

The federal government plans to pay to keep coal plants open longer. It recently selected Duke Energy’s two-unit coal-burning plant to receive up to $34 million.

We’re about a week and a half from North Carolina’s March 3 primary. One of the biggest races is for the U.S. Senate seat Republican Thom Tillis will vacate. Several Republicans are vying to face former Gov. Roy Cooper, including Michele Morrow, who drew national attention in 2024 when she ran for state superintendent of public instruction. Carli Brosseau wrote about those challenges for The Assembly. She joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry.

Former Gov. Roy Cooper made a stop at a local church in Greensboro to discuss rising health care costs and the need for more affordable health care.

CMPD makes an arrest in a three-decade old unsolved murder case. The FBI joins the investigation into a drive-by shooting into the home of a Republican candidate for Mecklenburg County Commission. Flight attendants reach an agreement with PSA Airlines on new compensation.