All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 10 2025 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced another $33 million in Hurricane Helene recovery projects in North Carolina, bringing the agency’s total spending on public assistance grants since the storm to more...
Nov 24 2025 // A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.In a call to 911, the...
Nov 19 2025 // King Risk Partners, which said it is now the 51st largest insurance brokerage in the United States, has acquired Stuart Surles Insurance agency in Angier, North Carolina, near Raleigh. The Surles agency, founded some 30...
Nov 4 2025 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau is asking for 28.5% and 31% average rate increases for dwelling policies over the next two years, numbers that will likely be reduced after negotiations with the state insurance...
Oct 31 2025 // North Carolina authorities on Thursday arrested a public adjuster, accusing him of absconding with a $133,000 payout from the insurance carrier following a contentious roof claim.Tyler Dionysius Englin, 26, of Garner,...
Oct 22 2025 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey this week called for more state and federal assistance after multiple homes on the Outer Banks have collapsed into the ocean in the last two months.“I am urging our...
Oct 21 2025 // The North Carolina Supreme Court has decided that it will not, after all, review another legal filing by convicted insurance entrepreneur Greg Lindberg.The Oct. 17 ruling lets stand a 2023 decision by the state Court of...
Oct 15 2025 // More than 2.5 million North Carolina residents are getting over $6.5 billion in medical debt eliminated through a state government effort that offered hospitals extra Medicaid funds from Washington if they gave low- and...
Oct 10 2025 // A North Carolina woman has been busy over the last three years, illegally obtaining weight-loss medication, administering it to people, and defrauding insurance companies of more than $87,400, the state Department of...
Oct 7 2025 // All six people hospitalized after a coastal North Carolina shooting last weekend that left three dead at a waterfront bar have been released, officials announced Friday.Southport officials initially said five people were...
Oct 3 2025 // Six unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks have collapsed into the ocean as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda rumble in the Atlantic, the latest private beachfront structures to fall as sea levels rise due...
Sep 26 2025 // Bracing himself against the current in waist-deep water, Clancy Loorham wrestles a broken length of PVC pipe from the rocky bottom of the French Broad River and peers inside.“I got a catfish in the pipe,” the...
Sep 23 2025 // A 74-year-old former postal worker in North Carolina is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to falsifying information about her post-injury employment and costing the federal workers’ compensation...
Sep 22 2025 // A North Carolina judge has ordered $50 million be paid to the family of a Charlotte TV station meteorologist who was killed in a helicopter crash three years ago after finding the companies that owned and operated the...
Sep 19 2025 // A beachfront stilt home along the Outer Banks in North Carolina has collapsed into the surf, bringing the total number of houses claimed by the Atlantic Ocean to 12 in the past five years.The two-story, wood-shingled home...
Sep 18 2025 // North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Monday requested $13.5 billion more from Congress in recovery aid for Hurricane Helene almost a year after the historic storm, saying additional help is needed from Washington to address...
Sep 16 2025 // Authorities were investigating a fire and explosion at a Fiberon plant in North Carolina that injured four workers late last week. The Queen City News and other sites reported that the facility in New London, which makes...
Sep 10 2025 // A North Carolina firefighter who was shot while answering a fire alarm call is recovering, while a suspect is in jail.The Associated Press and local media reported that the fireman was shot last week in Ellerbe. One fire...
Sep 9 2025 // In a unanimous vote Tuesday, Durham City Council passed a resolution to make the North Carolina city a “Fourth Amendment Workplace,” increasing protections for city workers against U.S. Immigration and Customs...
Aug 27 2025 // A North Carolina woman was sentenced to as much as 12 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to setting six fires in Onslow County, on the state’s southeast coast.Chasity Dawn Keeter, 37, of Jacksonville, pleaded...