Mark Price/The Charlotte Observer A small town mayor in western North Carolina is facing drug trafficking accusations after deputies reported finding cocaine in his possession and meth at his house, according to investigators. Robbinsville Mayor Shaun Larry Adams, 46, was arrested Monday and faces a half a dozen drug-related felony...

WRAL News The Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh is selling its home of nearly 15 years. CAM announced on Monday morning its building in the Warehouse District will be put on the market after its board decided to move toward a “more nimble, more sustainable contemporary arts institution” focused on...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Mayor Marikay Abuzuaiter proposed the idea at a council meeting just a day after a shooting that injured nine people, including multiple teenagers. She said this wasn’t a response to that specific incident, but youth violence in general over the past year. While not all council members...

Clara Ottati/WFAE Radio It’s lunchtime on a recent hot Friday afternoon. Dozens of people wait in line in the Roof Above parking lot as volunteers serve barbecue in Styrofoam take-out containers. There’s also a truck serving ice cream, a truck with mobile showers and laundry, and a third truck with...

Matt Lamb/The Southern Pines Pilot Nothing draws the ire of parents of students in Moore County Schools quite like interruptions to district-provided transportation. With the start of school looming, the Board of Education hopes a pay increase for bus drivers will fill vacancies and improve retention. “By doing this, we’re...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Efforts by a Gray’s Creek chiropractor to form a town in the southern Cumberland County community ran into doubts and hostility during a community meeting he held last week. So Robb Twaddell is pausing his SimCity dream to incorporate the Town of Gray’s Creek in 2027. But he...

Julia Horstkamp/The Daily Tar Heel The Protect Campus Survivors Act became law on July 7 after Gov. Josh Stein signed the North Carolina state budget, exempting personally identifiable student disciplinary records related to complaints, investigations and resolutions of alleged violations of disciplinary or conduct policies at public colleges and universities...

Amber Gaudet/The Charlotte Observer As a young man in the 1960s, Tommy Lineberger spent summers on construction sites, doing everything from driving a bulldozer to spackling and mudding walls in the North Carolina sun. Decades later, those early experiences would come back to haunt the Newton resident. Lineberger was diagnosed...

Chantal Allam & David Raynor/The Raleigh News & Observer In North Carolina, you can build a house on almost any patch of land. But the kinds of homes most people can afford — duplexes, townhomes, small apartments and single-family homes on modest lots — are effectively banned. Only about 21%...

Walker Livingston/Carolina Public Press HCA Healthcare could be in noncompliance with the asset purchase agreement for its 2019 acquisition of Mission Health Systems in Western North Carolina for the third year in a row. It’s also been three years since then-Attorney General, now-Gov. Josh Stein filed suit against HCA for...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning John Connet, who has led the city of Hendersonville through robust residential development, the recruitment of major manufacturing facilities, the city-county partnership that built the Pardee-Wingate-BRCC health sciences building and cancer center and recovery from Hurricane Helene, is moving on to a new job helping cities across...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Property owners may be in for a shock next year when the county’s overdue reappraisal values go into effect. Haywood has gone five years (soon to be six) without a property reappraisal. In that time market values have risen at least 44% over the average assessed...

Molly Steur/Education NC The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report in July detailing the findings of a study they conducted on how many students with disabilities are spending “much of their day” — at least 40% — in a general education classroom setting. Their research found that...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Northside Food Co-op is no longer seeking to set up shop at 10th and Post streets, marking the end of the grocery store vision for the property once backed by two governments and the New Hanover Community Endowment. Dorian Cromartie, board chair of the co-op,...

Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice As Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Southern Shores and Ducks prepare for their 2027 beach nourishment projects, monitoring of the beaches by Coastal Protection Engineering (CEP) shows that the last such project—in 2022—has held up surprisingly well. Based on observations provided to Duck, Southern Shores and...