WNCN currently broadcasts five hours of local news per day during weekdays. The station's most recent news expansion took place shortly after it was announced that WNCN would swap affiliations with WRAL-TV and join CBS, effective February 29, 2016. That same day, WNCN moved its 11:00 a.m. newscast to the traditional noon time slot (following "The Price is Right"), and began an hour of news at 5 p.m., followed by the 6 p.m. newscast, while dropping its 7 p.m. newscast. "The Young and the Restless" airs at 4 p.m. as a lead-in to WNCN's early-evening news block, making WNCN one of the few CBS affiliates in the country that televises the soap opera at that time. This continues a quarter-century tradition in the Triangle, as WRAL-TV also aired "The Young and the Restless" at 4 p.m. from 1993 until it switched to NBC.