Randolph County

The location near Greensboro will serve as Toyota’s epicenter of lithium-ion battery production in North America. It will be a key supplier for the Kentucky-based plant tasked with building Toyota's first U.S.-made electric vehicles.

More than 50 Black farmers came to Raleigh Wednesday to lobby lawmakers for more funding in the state budget.

Attacks last month in Moore County, North Carolina, knocked out power to more than 45,000 customers for several days. Those attacks, and others in Washington, Oregon, South Carolina and Nevada, have underscored the vulnerability of the nation’s far-flung electrical grid, which security experts have long warned could be a target for domestic extremists.

EnergyUnited says that an alarm early Tuesday alerted it to an equipment problem at the substation in Randolph County, north of Charlotte. It said that crews found damage to the substation from an apparent gunshot.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce is out with economic distress rankings for all 100 counties.

Seven of the sites are in central North Carolina and the other is in the western part of the state.

State officials have scheduled a Monday afternoon news conference to announce a major economic development project at an 1,800-acre plot called the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite about 20 miles southeast of Greensboro.

During lunchtime, school counselor Kim Hall takes a break from her desk and roams the hallways of Providence Grove High School.On her five-minute walk,…