Here’s a roundup of top stories from The News & Observer for Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026.

Just 17 counties will have Sunday voting — a sharp decrease from 40 in the last midterm election. But that’s just one way to ...

Resident concerns over drones and privacy sent an Axon agreement to further review while another police-tech deal won ...

Walker Eget transferred to Duke from San Jose State after Darian Mensah left Duke for Miami and won the QB competition with ...

According to Milstead, Raleigh Water gave violation notices when a water customer used more than 748 gallons of water over ...

A Cary WCPSS teacher had a bond hearing Tuesday morning to determine whether she’d be released from ICE custody in Georgia.

Raleigh’s mayor pushes back on death rumors, Scott Mason’s exit from WRAL: See what Triangle readers were talking about last ...

The colorful interactive experience invites the community to move their feet and watch as glowing squares illuminate from ...

State lawmakers required school districts to eliminate DEI offices as part of a new state law that bans DEI in K-12 public ...

Capt. Marvin Lancaster was shot down by German forces in the second battle of El Alamein in 1942 and has been identified ...

In Dolly Parton’s rural Appalachian home, life was as “peaceful as a baby’s sigh.” She would sing this line in one of her ...

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