Starting Monday, Hickory’s Riverwalk overwater bridge will be closed to the public for electrical repairs to the lighting system and conduit, which were damaged during Hurricane Helene. The work is expected to take four to six weeks to complete. All other portions of the elevated Riverwalk trail will remain open.

Seismic activity returned to South Carolina over the weekend, as an earthquake was recorded in an area that’s recently experienced lots of tremors. The State newspaper reports South Carolina’s first earthquake of September was a 1.7 magnitude event at 8:28 Saturday night, according to the South Carolina Emergency Management Division. The earthquake was near Ware Shoals, which is the Greenwood County area where 16 quakes were confirmed in a 10-day span in August. There have now been 29 confirmed earthquakes in South Carolina in 2025.

The city of Charlotte kicked off Welcoming Week on Friday with a naturalization ceremony at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center in uptown.

A Lexington police officer was recognized nationally for his ability to bust drug traffickers along Interstate 85. But then the officer became a major drug trafficker himself and is now serving a 21-year prison sentence.

As the state works to ramp up support for formerly incarcerated people, one nonprofit is hitting the road to fill in gaps and provide on-the-ground support.

In a purple state, progressive members of NC House wanted own caucus to promote an agenda more strident than the overall Democratic Party’s.

A watchdog report finds NC among the many states struggling to keep “forever chemicals” from landfills out of rivers and groundwater.

Duke Health steps out of the Triangle with a new partnership and a Duke-branded hospital in the Charlotte region. For patients in Charlotte, the move could mean more choice — and maybe even lower prices.

State Auditor Dave Boliek, a Republican, criticized Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles over the city's handling of a $305,000 financial settlement with police Chief Johnny Jennings.