16 NC counties are under alert, including Cumberland, Sampson, and Hoke counties.

Officials are encouraging residents to take steps to prepare for extreme weather ahead of hurricane season. New data shows flood and wind risk is changing in the state.

Inland homes at risk for high winds, flooding during hurricane season. Here's what you can do now.

Holly Springs shed damage

More than a dozen former employees say understaffing at Brynn Marr Hospital contributes to what they describe as a dangerous place for patients and employees. Hospital officials say allegations of violence, sexual assaults, overmedication and lack of mental health therapy are unfounded.

Former employees say short-staffed NC psych hospital rife with violence, abuse

Brynn Marr Hospital

FILE -- A humpback whale surfaces while feasting on a school of menhaden, or bunker, fish, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New Jersey, Sept. 7, 2018. A study published in Science Advances reports that the loss of some genes in the common ancestor of whales and dolphins allowed them to shed features that would have been liabilities beneath the waves, which may have contributed to the survival of future generations. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)

What Whales and Dolphins Left Behind for Life in the Ocean