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From this week's Sunday Edition: Channel was founded in 2021 by Live Oak Bank to help minority entrepreneurs get access to the resources they'd traditionally missed out on. Now it's been shuttered. Getting answers about why has been tricky. Plus, an editor's note on Novant NHRMC.
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Primary Election 2026: Rebecca Trammel is pursuing an unaffiliated campaign for NC Senate District 7On this edition of The Newsroom, we're speaking with Rebecca Trammel, a nonprofit founder, community organizer, and advocate for public education funding who aims to run as an unaffiliated candidate for North Carolina’s Senate District 7. We asked about her decision to run without major party support — and where she lands on some contentious state-level policies.
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- Hundreds of Wilmington residents stage 'die-in' alongside nationwide protest against federal immigration enforcement
- Opinion: Affordable Housing and Urban Resilience Aren’t at Odds, They’re Natural Allies
- A federal rule change could affect NC wetlands, making communities more vulnerable to flooding and poor water quality
- Sunday Edition: Editor's Notes on the Parks and Rec Reveal, Cancellation
- Columbus County holds its first partisan school board primaries
- Primary Election: 2026: New Hanover County Board of Education candidate questionnaires
- Cape Fear region braces for impending snowstorm
- Fuquay-Varina wants Cape Fear River water. The Wilmington area may pay the price
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Techmoja Dance & Theater Company's Kevin Lee-Y Green and Michael Sherrod
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Steve Vernon
- Commentary: Alan Sturrock
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Rachard McIntyre and Randx Nieves
- "Unique: A Rachard McIntyre Retrospective" Fourth Friday Reception
- Commentary: Gary Trawick
- Commentary: Bob Thompson "Longfellow and the Bells"
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Angel Major and Cas Hyman
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Marva Mapson Robinson, director of the Williston Alumni Community Choir
- Commentary: Gary Trawick "Say I Don’t Know"
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Alex Hill of City Ballet
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National News
- Many American cities are digging themselves out of the snow. Where does it all go?
- Historian and law professor discusses the state of federalism in the U.S. under Trump
- Developers are converting empty office buildings to keep up with demand for housing
- The model railroad world feels a pinch from global trade uncertainty
- Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
- Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, ending military training
- Temperature check by voters in Minnesota
- Covering the immigration surge in Minneapolis as a local
- One week since Nancy Guthrie was last seen, here's what we know
- DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
State News
- Mecklenburg County issues measles exposure notice for two locations
- 'I Voted' sticker contest opens in Forsyth County
- Customers react to Duke’s request to conserve energy during Carbon Plan proceedings
- North Carolina reports 17 measles cases since December
- Winston-Salem man pleads guilty in killing of Greensboro police sergeant
- High-stakes race in Forsyth could reshape county commission
- Duke Energy experiences record-breaking demand during winter storms
- American Hebrew Academy responds after documents show ICE considering Greensboro detention facility
- Coharie Indian Tribe charts course for river recreation in Sampson County
- High Point Museum opens Black History Month civil rights exhibit