The N.C. House committee charged with drawing new state election maps will start the formal map-drawing process Wednesday morning. Members can work on maps from 9 a.m. to as late as 5 p.m. each weekday until the process is complete.

FOREST CITY — The weekly COVID-19 update for Rutherford County was released on Tuesday with an additional 14 deaths reported.

RALEIGH — It’s been nearly a year since North Carolina and dozens of other states introduced contact-tracing apps to their arsenal of tools to fight the spread of COVID-19.

Pandemic unemployment benefits are set to expire Saturday, Sept. 4 in North Carolina and in a number of other states across the U.S.

Test results in reading, math, and science for the 2020-21 school year show the effects school closures and remote learning have had on public school students in North Carolina.

North Carolina’s riverkeepers are starting to return to business as usual now, more than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic slowed their efforts to fly over hog and poultry farms looking for violations of the state’s environmental regulations.

The North and South Carolina coasts are expected to see impacts from Tropical Storm Elsa later this week.

Elizabeth S. Biser affirmed her oath of office as North Carolina’s Secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality during a ceremony at DEQ’s Green Square building Thursday. The Honorable Mark Davis administered Secretary Biser’s oath with her family, friends and senior DEQ staff in att…

A new report from the Fordham Institute argues that North Carolina’s controversial social studies standards flunk the test on history and civics, ranking worst in the Southeast.

A new report from the Fordham Institute argues that North Carolina’s controversial social studies standards flunk the test on history and civics, ranking worst in the Southeast.

According to the most recent release of data by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the unemployment rate for Rutherford County sits at 5.9% for the month of May. The 5.9% is up a tick from 5.8% in April.

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries is accepting proposals for the Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Program for federal fiscal year 2022. The FY 2022 Request for Proposals is published on the division’s BIG webpage.

After years of delays, North Carolina’s Medicaid program has finally transitioned to a managed care system — becoming the last large state to do so.

RALEIGH — Epidemiologists and infectious disease experts have consistently maintained that the risk of spread of the COVID-19 virus among young children is low. But that hasn’t stopped policymakers like N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper from — for most of the past year — keeping in-person instruction clo…