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

Donna Burgraff, a registered independent who voted for Donald Trump, in Chillicothe, Ohio, April 23, 2018. Of the more than 650 counties that chose Barack Obama twice, about a third flipped to Donald Trump, and many were in states critical to his win, like Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. “I pulled the lever for Trump, and I’m not sorry I did,” she said. (Kristian Thacker/The New York Times)

They Voted for Obama. Then Trump. And They Are In Play.