50 NC counties and 1 VA county are under alert, including Wake, Cumberland, Durham, Johnston, and Orange counties.

Capitol Broadcasting Company, the parent company of WRAL News, is part of the 2024 class inducted into the North Carolina Media & Journalism Hall of Fame at the University of North Carolina.

WRAL parent company inducted to NC Media & Journalism Hall of Fame 

More than 21% of North Carolina's four-year-olds enrolled in the state's pre-kindergarten programs during the 2022-2023 school year, up from the prior year but still below the state's pre-pandemic highs, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research.

North Carolina ranks 29th in public pre-K enrollment, new report shows

Durham County budget increases funding for pre-K students

Susie Williams grandson Keyshun Foster, 9, was caught in the middle of a gunfight in front of her house in the Riverside neighborhood of South Memphis, Tenn.  Since the city attorney's office used a 2009 state nuisance-abatement law, not a single report of gunfire has been reported in the 4.6-sqare-mile area that encompasses the newly defined safety zone.