Cary resident Yukie Segnini started Yukiya Bakery to share her passion for Japanese pastries. The pop-up bakery, which appears often at Wake County farmers markets, sells the only authentic Japanese milk bread in the area.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement more than doubled all of the arrests made in NC in 2024 in the first nine months since President Donald Trump's inauguration, according to the Deportation Data Project.

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina could be federally recognized through the National Defense Authorization Act the House plans to vote on this week.

The Raleigh Police Department was initially sued for wrongful death seeking $25 million in damages after Darryl "Tyree" Williams, a Black man tased to death by white Raleigh police officers in January 2023.

After the fatal shooting of a professor at UNC in 2023, a group of Chinese international students said they struggled to find culturally competent mental health resources. So they organized to provide support for their community and other minorities on campus.

After federal immigration enforcement targeted North Carolina last week, many Latino families remained home from Sunday mass services. At Durham’s oldest Catholic church, longtime parishioners expressed support and empathy for the area’s immigrant community.

The board’s Republican majority voted to sign an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program.

Congregants returned to churches with large immigrant congregations on Sunday, with the surge of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents leaving.

18-year-old Fernando Vazquez was working his commercial landscaping job on the morning of Nov. 18, 2025, in Cary when Border Patrol agents stopped, arrested, and eventually released him.

Benevolence Farm in Graham helps women after jail or prison to transition back into society. The nonprofit is building a tiny home community for women who are ready to live independent lives and depart from shared living spaces.