Abortion restrictions will be the defining issue of the 2024 general election in North Carolina.
Winston-Salem is spending up to $750,000 to rehab 10 apartments it owns in two buildings, but residents worry they will face rent hikes after a promised year-long moratorium.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utility Commission has approved increases in water and sewer rates for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, the commission said Thursday.
Jason Tilley was selected Monday as the next police chief for the town of Kernersville, the Kernersville Police Department said in a news release.
Protest happened on same day Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed abortion legislation that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy compared with the 20-week current restriction.
The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners nixed a $200,000 grant to a Novant foundation for opioid abuse treatment because of complaints over CEO pay and charity care.
The COVID-19 state of emergency for Winston-Salem has been declared as over by Mayor Allen Joines, retroactive to Monday.
The Winston-Salem City Council has opposed a plan by state lawmakers to create an independent employee grievance panel.
It took months for the Journal to get information about diversity from the Winston-Salem Police Department.
A local tenants-rights group is protesting a bill that it says would hurt poor people and those who have service animals to help them.
A controversial bill that would create "Civil Service" personnel appeals boards in Winston-Salem and Greensboro has passed the N.C. House but is likely to see continued opposition when it goes to the Senate.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein joined Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough and other top law enforcement leaders from here and around the state on Monday to appeal for support for strategies to recruit and retain law enforcement officers.
A debris landfill on Piney Grove Road was approved by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners on Thursday over neighbor objections.
The former finance director for Rural Hall is suing the town, alleging that Rural Hall owes him more than $8,500 in back wages.
A compromise being worked out would give airplanes a tax cut at Smith Reynolds Airport and keep the airport inside the city limits of Winston-Salem.
Forsyth County has picked longtime employee Yolanda Bolden to lead the library system.
A plan to expand the Winston-Salem City Council with additional at-large members has been scaled back to add only one new at-large seat.
U.S. Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., has endorsed former President Donald Trump for president in 2024.
Merschel Park, Winston-Salem’s newest downtown park, will officially open with a ribbon-cutting on Saturday.
Don Martin, chairman of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, said Thursday he has begun talks with Winston-Salem officials and state legislators to end a controversial proposal to remove Smith Reynolds Airport from city limits.
“It’s very humbling, and I’m going to do my best to live up to their confidence."
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Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines announced Thursday he will seek a seventh term in 2024, at a press conference he held on the steps of City Hall downtown.
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines has called a 10:30 a.m. news conference on Thursday to announce his political plans for 2024.
With a deadline fast approaching in November, residents have a lot of skepticism about whether the widening of Meadowlark Drive will wrap up this year.
Rural Hall town officials violated state law several times, including by not releasing public records and by allowing the town council to appoint a new town clerk, according to a state audit released last week.
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore and state Rep. David Willis were involved in a car accident Thursday while traveling back to Raleigh, but were not hurt, Moore’s spokesperson said. Moore and Willis, both Republican members of the House, were visiting Wilson for a series of events and were being driven back to Raleigh by security, when their vehicle was “rammed from behind several times,” ...
State Sen. Paul Lowe, D-Forsyth, and two other state senators introduced a bill Tuesday to bar state law enforcement agencies from releasing photographs of accused criminals.
Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn was sworn in Wednesday as the city’s 16th top law enforcement officer, saying that he will work to reduce crime locally and fill the vacancies of 144 officers on the police force.
A former Triad resident was one of several people along the North and South Carolina coasts on Saturday to witness a fighter jet shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the U.S. for days.