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🔎 Each week, NC Local’s Will Michaels dives into the numbers affecting our state in his new newsletter, Shape of the Sta...
05/29/2026

🔎 Each week, NC Local’s Will Michaels dives into the numbers affecting our state in his new newsletter, Shape of the State.

Subscribe at nclocal.org.

05/28/2026

Join us Thursday 6/4 in Winston-Salem for a bilingual community listening event focusing on how families and young people can thrive. We're teaming up with Radio Onda de Amor & other community groups and media organizations to hear directly from the community about what issues are important to them, what questions they have and how local news can serve them better. Link in comments!

05/28/2026

What does the U.S. Forest Service’s restructuring mean for Western NC? Western NC’s 12,000 acres of national forest land set aside for scientific research will be spared from the current reorganization that has put 57 similar facilities at risk nationwide. Local environmentalists are concerned about what the overall restructure will mean for local forests.

Read more at nclocal.org.

05/14/2026

NC Local’s Western NC Reporter Lilly Knoepp visited the legislature this week where she sat down with Rep. Karl Gillespie (R-Macon) to talk about his role, Hurricane Helene recovery and more.

Read more at nclocal.org and in The Trailhead, NC Local’s weekly newsletter for Western NC.

05/13/2026

Are you a North Carolina teacher or state employee?

⬆️ Here’s what the budget proposal could mean for your future. Read the full story and find out how to weigh in at nclocal.org.

05/12/2026

🚨 Republican leadership in the North Carolina House and Senate have agreed to some of the big issues in the state budget, which includes an 8% average raise for state teachers, 3% raise for state employees, and agreeing to pass a constitutional amendment to cap the state income tax rate at 3.5%.

Stay tuned in the coming days for more details.

🎵 Swipe to listen to Sheila Kay Adams, a seventh generation ballad singer from Madison County, sing a traditional ballad...
05/11/2026

🎵 Swipe to listen to Sheila Kay Adams, a seventh generation ballad singer from Madison County, sing a traditional ballad.

Adams is one of the artists that performed for members of the National Endowment for the Arts Council, who toured Marshall High Studios to learn how artists are recovering from Hurricane Helene in the region.

Read more about how investment in the arts can drive economic recovery at nclocal.org.

Photos by Andy Wickstrom, courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts; video by Lilly Knoepp/NC Local

The North Carolina Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts program, or IOLTA, uses earned interest from lawyers’ trust accou...
05/07/2026

The North Carolina Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts program, or IOLTA, uses earned interest from lawyers’ trust accounts to award grants to organizations providing free legal services to low income residents across North Carolina.

State lawmakers froze the program’s ability to distribute grants last year. Without the funds, some legal aid organizations had to lay off staff and reduce legal services for low-income people with landlord disputes, domestic violence matters and family law issues.

Read more at nclocal.org.

📸 by Jack Flame Sorokin/Come Hell or High Water Community Memory Project & Jacob Biba/NC Local

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