This week's best photos from News & Observer photojournalists
Roy Williams smiles as new North Carolina men’s basketball head coach Michael Malone talks about his daughter, Bridget, a freshman volleyball player, during Malone’s introductory press conference at the Smith Center on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown/[email protected]
Here’s a curated selection of photos from the Triangle and beyond as captured through the lenses of News & Observer photojournalists. This feature can be seen in Sunday’s newspaper, as well as in our online Edition. See it at eedition.newsobserver.com.
People walk by a photograph of North Carolina men’s basketball head coach Michael Malone prior to an introductory press conference at the Smith Center on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown/[email protected]
Catalina Muñoz holds a photograph during a press conference held in Durham, N.C. by Siembra NC on Thursday, April 9, 2026, of Denis, 6, a Burton Elementary School student who was detained by ICE and deported. Kaitlin McKeown/[email protected]
Supporters hold North Carolina flags while listening to former Gov. Roy Cooper speak during a “Make Stuff Cost Less” campaign rally on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at Bay 7 in Durham’s American Tobacco Campus. Cooper faces former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley in the race for U.S. Senate. Both are vying to replace Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from Huntersville, who is retiring at the end of his term. Travis Long/[email protected]
More than 200 picketers urged the Wake County school board to ask commissioners for more than a $25 million increase in school funding during a protest organized by Wake NCAE outside the meeting in Cary, N.C., on April 7, 2026. Keung Hui/[email protected]
Freshly tilled furrows seem to converge near the front door of an old farmhouse in rural Johnston County. Farmers are prepping their fields for spring planting while hoping for rain as drought conditions spread across the state. Scott Sharpe/[email protected]
