Category Archives: News
Halifax Resolves return to NC for temporary display
HALIFAX, N.C. (NCN News) - It is considered the first call for full independence by the colonies. The document known as the Halifax Resolves is coming back to North Carolina for temporary display. As ...
Mar 30, 2026
Officers on the lookout for speeders during enforcement campaign
RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) - Highway patrol troopers and other officers are on the lookout for lead foots with a statewide speeding enforcement effort. The N.C. Governor's Highway Safety Program (GHSP) ...
Mar 30, 2026 A statewide speeding enforcement effort continues through April 5 (file photo/Getty images)
Threat leads to terminal one evacuation at RDU
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WPTF) - Tense moments at Raleigh-Durham International Airport Monday morning (March 30). A unspecified threat led to an early morning evacuation of terminal one. The evacuation star...
Mar 30, 2026 Terminal one at Raleigh-Durham International Airport was evacuated for about 90 minutes Monday Morning, March 30 due to an unspecified threat. (file photo courtesy RDU)
Statewide open burning ban now in effect
RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) - As dry conditions continue across the state, an open burning ban was put into place Saturday (March 28) until further notice. "With drought severity across the state, foreca...
Mar 29, 2026
Raleigh police identify nightclub shooting victim, search for suspects
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) - Police have released the name of a shooting victim from a Sunday morning (March 22) incident on New Bern Avenue. 33 year old Jorge Dorantes-Carranz was one of two people who was...
Mar 25, 2026
Durham Police seek Tobacco Trail stabbing suspect
DURHAM, N.C. (WPTF) - There's a new development in the Durham Police investigation into a homicide on the American Tobacco Trail. Durham Police investigators are seeking the public's assistance in loc...
Mar 25, 2026 LaRue Barbee is wanted and has been charged with First-Degree Homicide in the death of Chesleigh Eloyd Lyons and is being sought (photo courtesy Durham Police)
NCDMV hires provider for tech upgrades
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (NCN News) - The state's division of motor vehicles. has hired a service provider to update decades-old technology, in an effort to improve service. The North Carolina Division of Mo...
Mar 25, 2026 (Getty Images)
State league director retiring in October
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (NCN News) - The longtime leader of the state's high school athletics sanctioning body will retire later this year. Que Tucker has announced she will retire as Commissioner of the No...
Mar 23, 2026 Que Tucker has announced she will retire as Commissioner of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, effective October 1, 2026. (photo courtesy NCHSAA)
People 'bathe' in nature to get respite from chaotic news cycle
By ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - For two hours, Claire Jefferies wanted to get away from the war in Iran and the rising gas prices and just commune with nature. And, so, she t...
Mar 23, 2026 Alan Mintz smells a crushed conifer twig during a "forest bathing" session at the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
NC Best holds education lab
CARY, N.C. (NCN News) - Teachers, principals, policy experts and education advocated gathered Monday (March 23) at BEST NC's annual North Carolina Education Innovation Lab to discuss ways to improve e...
Mar 23, 2026 LOUISVILLE, KY - MARCH 17: Students and teachers participate in a socially distanced classroom session at Medora Elementary School on March 17, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. Today marks the reopening of Jefferson County Public Schools for in-person learning with new COVID-19 procedures in place. (File Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)