4+ hour, 11+ min ago   (298+ words) The North Carolina State Highway Patrol has graduated 31 members from its 12th Basic Transition School, completing another step in the transfer of former Division of Motor Vehicles License and Theft Bureau personnel into the Highway Patrol. The graduates completed eight weeks…...

6+ hour, 6+ min ago   (844+ words) Forest City residents looking at an ordinance labeled around urban archery may want to read well beyond the title. The proposal before the Town Council on Monday, Sept. 14, does not simply set rules for bow-hunting deer inside town limits. It…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (627+ words) Occasionally, I’ll be highlighting the most significant cases moving through the courts in WNC and beyond — cases that shape how justice is served in our communities and catch my attention. From indictments to local hearings and appellate rulings, Court Report…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (665+ words) When a major fire is extinguished in North Carolina, another job often begins: figuring out how it started. Fire investigations can involve local fire departments, law enforcement agencies and, in some cases, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI)....

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1005+ words) A United States Supreme Court case involving commercial fishermen and federal regulators changed a decades-old rule governing federal agencies, with implications reaching far beyond the fishing industry to businesses, farmers, taxpayers, and local governments nationwide, including in western North Carolina....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (712+ words) The Town of Lake Lure has filed a summary ejectment action against Second Mountain, LLC, alleging the company failed to pay its August rent and is continuing to occupy the town-owned property after the lease was terminated. The civil action…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1581+ words) A Lake Lure public hearing on the town’s proposed comprehensive plan quickly became a test of how far residents could press elected officials about a separate legal dispute involving a town-owned building, Lured Market, and the aftermath of Hurricane Helene....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (622+ words) Nearly twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, investigators in New York City are using advances in DNA technology and genealogy to identify victims whose remains have never been formally identified. The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (321+ words) Occasionally, I’ll be highlighting the most significant cases moving through the courts in Rutherford County and beyond — cases that shape how justice is served in our communities and catch my attention. From indictments to local hearings and appellate rulings, Court…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1272+ words) By Annie Dance | Cops & Congress | News & Commentary One year after 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed aboard Charlotte’s LYNX Blue Line, her uncle, Frank Haskell, is suing the city and the private company responsible for transit security, alleging the killing…...