James Farrell, Ely Portillo & Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Dr. Crystal Hill has been placed on leave amid an investigation into how the district is run, the school board said Wednesday. Hill has been on the job for more than three years. The school district and multiple board...

Alex Littlehales/WRAL News The North Carolina Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint filed against Insurance Commissioner Michael Causey after he was accused of exchanging ‘inappropriate’ messages with a former department employee. “This morning, Commissioner Causey was informed that the complaint had been dismissed by the Ethics Commission because ‘the facts...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  With three changes to the Senate’s passage along party lines, the Dominique Moody Act advanced from North Carolina’s House of Representatives 113-0 on Wednesday. The upper chamber is next up to consider two committee substitutes and a floor amendment to the bill championed by Sens. Steve...

Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline A new bill proposed by North Carolina Senate Democrats would put constitutional amendments to legalize recreational and medical cannabis on the ballot. But its odds of getting a vote in the Senate are not high, Republican leadership says. Senate Bill 1072 would put two separate amendments on...

Paul Woolverton/CityView A moratorium on data center projects is in place for the unincorporated areas of Cumberland County through December 15, after the Board of Commissioners voted 7-0 for the moratorium on Monday. Spectators in the commissioners chamber applauded and cheered the vote, which has been expected since last week....

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press A wide-ranging North Carolina election bill seemed headed for passage at lightning speed Tuesday morning in Raleigh. But now, it’s stopped in its tracks. Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, told Carolina Public Press that the election bill is still headed to its final destination, but is taking...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog One of Asheville’s largest urban forests remains on the chopping block. Now it seems to have been joined by the very idea that put it there. According to a series of documents published by the University of North Carolina-Asheville, the committee tasked with guiding the future of...

Joe Marusak/The Charlotte Observer Grading work is underway for a 50,000-square-foot Lowes Foods grocery store beside a four-lane divided highway under construction in Mooresville near Lake Norman, a town official said Tuesday. Known as the East West Connector, the nearly mile-long road was first proposed decades ago for drivers to...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Brunswick County is one of four U.S. sites eyed for what could become the world’s first commercial polymetallic nodule refinery. The proposed facility, referred to in a news release as Project Infinity, is the product of a consortium between Australian minerals-processing and mining company Cobalt Blue Holdings Limited...

WSOCTV News The YMCA of Greater Charlotte announced Wednesday it will sell its Morrison YMCA property for $42.5 million to Moments of Hope Church. The Morrison YMCA will remain open and fully operational through the anticipated closing in summer 2027. According to YMCA officials, the sale of the property is...

Will Atwater/NC Health News Two years ago, Emily Donovan stood on a stage in Fayetteville and introduced then-EPA Administrator Michael Regan. Regan, who was secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality before being tapped by the Biden administration to lead the EPA, had returned to the region —...

Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom Democrats and protesters pushed back against a sweeping elections law bill that House Republicans released Monday and plan to pass to the Senate before the week is over. The 37-page bill proposes a litany of changes to the state’s elections rules, including allowing any resident of a...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  With the expected blessing of party leaders in two counties he serves, state Rep. Bryan Cohn is expected to be on the ballot Nov. 3 trying to keep his District 32 seat in the House of Representatives. Cohn did not file for reelection and Oxford City...

Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a teacher pay bill that would give larger raises to veteran educators, arguing that North Carolina has spent years recruiting new teachers while doing too little to keep experienced ones in the classroom. House Bill 1130 would overhaul North Carolina’s teacher salary...

Dylan Halper/The Duke Chronicle Starting next month, the Trump administration will impose new limitations on graduate federal loans, leaving Duke’s graduate schools and prospective students in uncertain financial territory. The new regulations, coupled with provisions from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, radically upend the current borrowing system for graduate...