About Current Column

Current Column focuses on North Carolina and nearby states. Current Column covers news from Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Raleigh, Charlotte, Richmond, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Dallas, Washington, Atlanta, National, World, Fayetteville, Cypress and beyond.

Our newsroom: Justin Brooks, Nicholas James, Maya Morris.

Our writers follow the work of local newsrooms and write their own accounts of the stories that matter. Every article names and links the outlet whose reporting it is based on, and shows that report’s original publication date when the outlet provides one. Article images are illustrations generated for publication, not news photographs, and are labelled as such.