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By Maggie Brown, WRAL multiplatform producer Raleigh, N.C. — About six weeks shy of a year behind face coverings, North Carolinians have more places where they can shed the mask after Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Friday that the state would no longer require masks and social distancing. Cooper put the state under that mandate …

Burke County Public Schools will return to Plan A on Monday, April 12, the Burke County Board of Education decided during Monday night’s regular meeting. In a 7-0 vote at Morganton’s Olive Hill Resource Center, the board decided students in kindergarten through 12th grade will resume in-person learning five days per week that day. Burke …

Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Frank L. Johnson of Statesville to the North Carolina Board of Science, Technology, and Innovation: Johnson is a member at-large. Johnson is the founder of JMS Southeast, Inc. and the president and technical advisor of Statesville Process Instruments, Inc. Johnson brings decades of experience in business and manufacturing to the …

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Dorian bombarded North Carolina with pounding winds and drenching rain on Friday, causing severe storm surges and flooding in the Outer Banks. After devastating the Bahamas and strafing parts of the southeastern United States this week, Dorian made landfall Friday morning in North Carolina when its …