Chris Burritt/Business North Carolina Greg Lowe, the North Carolina president of HCA Healthcare, is taking charge as CEO of Asheville’s Mission Hospital months after state and federal regulators cited it for failures in following to comply with health and safety regulations. Mission Hospital CEO Chad Patrick is returning to HCA...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio New data collected from public school superintendents show the number of teaching vacancies and total school employee vacancies across the state has improved this school year. For the past four years, the North Carolina School Superintendents’ Association (NCSSA) has surveyed its members on how many teaching and...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press Less than two months after the Great Lakes Fire seared 32,000 near the central North Carolina coast, the Pulp Road Wildfire on June 15, 2023, began when a prescribed fire in a longleaf pine forest the previous day slipped from the grasp of the burn team....

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A council member and former mayor of Carolina Beach argues infrastructure modernization efforts need to take priority after the town was inundated with some of its worst flooding due to tropical cyclone eight hitting the region Monday. A National Weather Service gauge measured over 18 inches...

Jennifer Bendery/The Huffington Post In a newly unearthed video from 2022, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) scoffs at the idea that young women should have access to birth control and, repeatedly waving his hand near his groin, says they just need to “get this under control.” During a...

Megan Plotka/NC Newsline AT&T workers with the Communication Workers of America (CWA) in the Southeast returned to work Monday after a 30-day strike. Approximately 300 AT&T technicians, customer service representatives and other workers in north Alabama were on strike for the past month. They joined 17,000 CWA District 3 members...

Alli Lindenberg/Education NC “I cannot tell you how good it feels to be back in eastern North Carolina,” said Dr. Maria Pharr, president of Pitt Community College. In mid-August, Pharr began her tenure as president at Pitt Community College after serving as president of South Piedmont Community College for seven...

Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Smith, 15, has been looking after horses at Shining Hope Farms in north Charlotte for four months. On a recent weekday, he was learning how to ride one. Being around the farm is a new experience for him — it’s one he’s enjoying. “I never had an...

Kimberly King/WLOS News Clay Eddleman, the chairman of Henderson County’s Election Board, addressed about 50 citizens on Monday, Sept. 16, during an emergency board meeting to state Linda Rebuck would remain on the board. The meeting comes after last week’s controversy around Rebuck’s email to about 30 Republican state legislators....

Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer It’s back to the drawing board for a proposal that would allow Waynesville property owners to build additional homes on their lots in town. The Waynesville town council unanimously voted at its meeting Tuesday night that the town’s planning staff and its planning board get on...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The Sandhills summer put a sheen on the forehead of Fayetteville State University Chancellor Darrell T. Allison on an early July morning. Despite the stifling temperature and humidity, Allison kept his blazer buttoned as he shook hands and greeted construction workers, politicians, trustees, and students. They were gathering...

Danielle Battaglia/The (Raleigh) News & Observer A North Carolina man found himself in custody Sunday after the Secret Service’s advance team noticed a barrel of a gun sticking through a fence at the hole where former President Donald Trump was about to play golf. The Secret Service fired at the...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press On Wednesday April 19, 2023, a campfire may have sparked a wildfire in a pine forest in the core of the 160,000-acre Croatan National Forest, about 20 miles southwest of New Bern. Known as the Great Lakes Fire, the blaze spread from its source to several...

Anne Blythe/NC Health News Ana Ilarraza-Blackburn becomes animated when talking about how immigrant communities are thrust into the state and national spotlight during election years. Her voice grows louder, its cadence quickens and she unleashes an impassioned assessment about the negative health impact that political rhetoric can have on immigrant...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Macon County commissioners have curbed local restrictions that aimed to reduce soil erosion and stream sedimentation. Landowners and developers now will be subject to North Carolina soil disturbance requirements, instead of a more stringent ordinance that’s been in place locally since 2001. In August, Macon...