Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger The compensation of Charlotte-based Atrium Health’s top executives rose by an average of 21 percent in 2025, according to newly released records, as the hospital giant seeks to combine with Raleigh-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals. The executive compensation report from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, which does business as […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education members are calling for changes to how the district educates students with disabilities amid worsening outcomes. The discussion came up at a meeting this week. District officials presented Exceptional Children (EC) data from the 2024-25 school year. Reading and math proficiency rates for all grade levels decreased. […]
Dan Kane & Nolan Wilkinson/The Raleigh News & Observer Since 2023, state lawmakers have been made aware that Wake County and many other North Carolina prosecutorial districts are in need of more assistant district attorneys. Wake alone has 45 prosecutors when a study says it should have 70. But in the past year, state Republican […]
Annette Weston/WFAE Radio Jeanette Vitullo lived in North Carolina until she was six years old, seemingly healthy. But decades later, in 2003, her health took a sharp downturn. Her body began to fail, and doctors were completely baffled as her organs began shutting down, landing her on life support. For decades, the toxic legacy of […]
Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press Fayetteville State University may be among the smaller public institutions in North Carolina, but it’s punching above its weight. With the onset of the academic year, the university is celebrating historic benchmarks like 80.7% student retention and the enrollment of more than 7,700 students. Both are all-time records for the school, […]
Travis Bland/WUNC News Raleigh is exploring an ambitious new greenway to connect downtown to Dix Park. Called The Oakline, the path would begin in front of the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts and run through the future Salisbury Square development and the City Gateway area where the Mira apartment complex is now built. […]
Ally Kadlubar/WRAL News The town of Zebulon said it is learning more reasons why it is on a list of municipalities that will face increased scrutiny from the state going forward. In July, a state audit revealed the town lacked internal controls to effectively manage its finances and overspent from its general fund. The Local […]
Andrew Tangel & Hanna Krueger/The Wall Street Journal More than a minute before a Boeing 767 landed at a Miami airport Sunday, a pilot warned that the aircraft was approaching too fast, followed by electronic cockpit warnings. The Amazon cargo jet nevertheless continued its approach and touched down at roughly 182 mph. Investigators say the […]
Sophia DePhillips/Port City Daily One month after Brad George left the Pender County Board of Commissioners, his seat remains vacant after commissioners tabled the appointment of his replacement — Beth Burns — in light of another challenge to her ascendancy. Burns was scheduled to be appointed to the open District 1 seat during Tuesday night’s […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The Chatham Mills property in Pittsboro is under new ownership. Local entrepreneur Chris Ehrenfeld — the owner and CEO of BOLD Companies — purchased the 28-acre property off Hillsboro Street on September 3, which have operated as a retail center since 1997. He also bought a 3.64 acre property directly to the […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A class action lawsuit nine years in the making will finally go before a jury in March 2027. The lawsuit represents more than 180,000 North Carolinians impacted by the Chemours Fayetteville Works plant. The case is being litigated by co-lead counsel, Cohen Milstein, a law firm with an office in Raleigh […]
Taylor Knopf/NC Health News In 2014, Angela Diaz was 24 years old and believed she was receiving secret messages from the world around her. She describes being paranoid that her coworkers were watching her and could hear her thoughts. She believed one was sending her secret messages through small things he would do, such as […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News Seth Kotch is an American studies professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He researches modern American history and his classes range from one on the death penalty to Southern culture. Every year, in his “This Place Called the ‘South’” class, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Seth Kotch kicks off a semester-long round of Trivial Pursuit with […]
Tammy Webber & Joshua A. Bickel/The Associated Press The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It’s an idyllic setting in North Carolina’s Inner Banks, where fields of […]
Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press Moore County is paying more than $50,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over allegations of unnecessary institutionalization of two children by the county’s Department of Social Services, even though the county denies any wrongdoing. The settlement, signed by both parties in May, is the latest development in the case following claims […]
