Kylie Moore

Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would've required a new primary election in the 9th District Friday, saying it would make it harder to root out corruption in elections and campaigns.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles said she has not been told about a possible move of the Carolina Panthers' headquarters to South Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper's office says more than 720,000 people across the state have received some form of food assistance in the seven weeks after Hurricane Florence.

The hurricane, which made landfall in September, caused a historic $17 billion in damages.

A 25-person team of doctors, nurses and staff at Duke University Hospital performed the state's first successful abdominal wall and bowel transplant this week.

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Police responded to reports of an active shooter at Topsail High School Friday morning, but according to county emergency management director Tom Collins, the culprit was a malfunctioning water heater.

CMS Superintendent Clayton Wilcox did not attend Saturday’s funeral for the Butler High School student who was shot and killed on the school’s campus, saying his presence at the funeral would have been a distraction.

Two experts on redistricting said that democracy isn’t working because of gerrymandering - and that voters already know how to fix it.

“There really is a sense among a lot of people that the system is broken in some really fundamental ways, and redistricting is a big part of that,” said Michael Li, senior counsel at Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program.

A new estimate from the Office of State Budget and Management shows that Hurricane Florence caused close to $17 billion in damage when it made landfall in September, up from the original $13 billion estimate.