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Shea Carver/Port City Daily A new committee has formed from the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization to assess potential funding mechanisms for large-scale projects regionwide, including the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement. Some are even suggesting a tri-county bond referendum, mimicking recent transportation legislation passed in North Carolina’s largest city. WMPO’s Alternative Funding Subcommittee […]

Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aspire to put the school “on the global map” with the development of a new stadium to host cricket, rugby and soccer games ahead of the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, according to a proposal for the Carolina North campus. […]

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio When the Trump administration recently reversed course on billions in federal education funding, it wasn’t the first time something like this happened. Earlier this year, it also pulled – and then reinstated – COVID relief funds that had a big impact on one Robeson County school. If you walked into Lumberton High […]

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News The first domino fell when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t renew North Carolina’s $13.8 million HIV Prevention and Surveillance grant before it ran out on May 31. The second blow came when the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services passed that nonrenewal along to 13 […]

Ben Humphries/Education NC After weeks of negotiations and nearly one month into the new fiscal year, the North Carolina General Assembly voted this week to adopt a continuing budget resolution — a “mini-budget” — that funds essential parts of the state government. The mini-budget funds step adjustments for employees on salary schedules, including teachers, principals, […]

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News For nearly two decades, a self-styled reformer with no law enforcement experience who toppled a longtime sheriff and rode a rising red tide to four reelection victories enjoyed his unusual transformation from outsider to one of the most powerful law enforcement figures in rural Western North Carolina, but it came with […]

Kelly Kendall/WXII News It’s crunch time for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools leaders. More than 50,000 students will return to classrooms in about two weeks, as district leaders continue to grapple with a $46.1 million budget shortfall from the previous fiscal year. The board of education came together for a special-called meeting Tuesday night during which interim […]

Stella Mackler/WFAE Radio Building, rehabilitating, instructing, developing, growing, employing. Those are the promises made by the BRIDGE program, which trains incarcerated young men to fight fires, among other skills. But does it hold true to those promises? For Burt Torrain, the answer is complicated. Torrain participated in BRIDGE in 1991. Locked away on drug charges, […]

Chloe Courtney Bohl/IndyWeek After Saint Augustine’s University lost accreditation this week, the school’s leaders are appealing to alumni to fundraise $1 million they say they’ll need for a lawsuit against their former accreditor. On Monday night, about 200 SAU alumni joined a Zoom call with interim university president Marcus Burgess, board chair Brian Boulware, and […]

Hendersonville Lightning The final overnight closures of Interstate 26 in Henderson County related to the widening project are set to occur this week. “There will be no more full closures in Henderson County,” Resident Engineer Mike Patton said. “As far as what the travelling public will notice, our project in Henderson County is complete.” NCDOT […]

Bradley George/WUNC Radio The Trump Administration is investigating Duke University over its diversity practices. The probe comes as hundreds of employees prepare to leave the university due to federal funding cuts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Education Secretary Linda McMahon recently sent a letter to Duke administrators. In it, they […]

WSOC News Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper raised over $3 million in the first 24 hours after announcing his bid for the U.S. Senate. According to campaign officials, Cooper’s campaign received $2.6 million, while nearly $900,000 was directed to the Democratic Party. North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race is expected to be one of the […]

The Associated Press North Carolina Republican lawmakers on Tuesday overrode several vetoes by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, getting just enough votes from Stein’s own party to enact some laws while falling short on others. The votes were key tests for Republican General Assembly leaders since they narrowly lost their veto-proof majority following last fall’s elections. […]

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro Facing funding cuts from both the state and federal governments, UNC administrators shared some broad areas it aims to trim roughly $70 million from its operating budget on Wednesday — including consolidating jobs and scaling back financial aid to out-of-state students. Ahead of a budget presentation to the Board of Trustees’ Budget, […]

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online North Carolina’s attorney general is confident federal funding unceremoniously stripped from local governments earlier this year will be reinstated under a court ruling. “I think we’re going to win in court,” Jeff Jackson said Tuesday afternoon. “I think our argument is very strong.” Jackson had just wrapped up a short tour […]