Alli Lindenberg/Education NC A lifelong educator has taken the helm at Rockingham Community College (RCC). Dr. Sylvia Cox became the college’s sixth president in May 2025. With a career in education spanning more than 25 years, this teacher-turned-higher education leader brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and heart for rural...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio High Point has approved the Southwest Mill District, which could pave the way for new jobs, homes and stores along West Green Drive. The decision would rezone around 171 acres of land in the area southwest of downtown High Point and establish additional development standards to create...

Mary Smith/CBS 17 News A man passes away, and an apartment complex throws his things out before his family even has a chance to gather them — that’s what the family of Blake Decena says happened about two weeks ago. They say Decena was found dead in his apartment at...

Brady Dennis, Brianna Sacks & Kevin Crowe/The Washington Post Lynn Austin keeps running the numbers, and they don’t look good. Since Hurricane Helene devastated her community in western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the county government has spent nearly $50 million on cleanup and recovery — while getting reimbursed only...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Chemours’ air permit application to expand production at its Fayetteville Works plant excludes emissions data that should be disclosed to the public, environmental lawyers say. The company “improperly withheld vital emission data from the public” in its Aug. 14 application to the North Carolina Department of...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Wake County school leaders are forming a plan for how to use laptops and educational technology in student learning in future years — one that could prompt laptop use to look different than it has for the past five years. A plan would go into effect next...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger City and county leaders in Charlotte said they are pressing for answers after a Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News article last week highlighted slow progress on affordable housing tied to the city’s new medical innovation district, The Pearl. Some are also asking why...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Gov. Josh Stein says wait times at the Division of Motor Vehicles are improving thanks to additional staffing and a new state law that moves more DMV transactions online. The governor announced Monday that DMV has already filled 64 new driver’s license examiner positions funded earlier this...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press You’ve heard of Texas and California’s mid-decade redistricting efforts. You may know of North Carolina’s plans to redraw its Congressional map to give Republicans one more seat in the US House of Representatives. But one redistricting battle has likely escaped your attention. It’s in Watauga County,...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios The number of U.S. states with adult obesity rates at or above 35% dropped slightly in 2024 compared to a year prior, a new report finds, yet remains far higher than just a decade ago. Why it matters: Obesity is tied to several health problems, including diabetes, heart...

Jane Porter/IndyWeek At the heart of the debate over whether Apex should annex and rezone a parcel of land located in New Hill just south of Old U.S. Highway 1 for a proposed data storage facility is a central question: Do town leaders envision that property as a corridor for...

Hendersonville Lightning Jamie Ager, a Democratic candidate for the 11th Congressional District seat held by U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, outraised the incumbent by a 3-to-1 margin in the third quarter, Ager’s campaign announced. And another Democratic candidate, former Blue Ridge Health CEO Richard Hudspeth, got off to a fast start,...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Frontier Scientific Solutions, a Wilmington-based temperature-controlled storage and transportation company, announced its partnership with Air Transport Services Group Inc. (ATSG) on Wednesday. The partnership will introduce a “dedicated air corridor designed specifically for the life sciences, ensuring continuous temperature control and full shipment integrity from origin to delivery,”...

Morgan Casey/CityView Hopeful students can soon apply to the Methodist University Cape Fear Valley Health School of Medicine, North Carolina’s fifth and newest medical school. After six years of planning, the Fayetteville school on Thursday received preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Commission on Medical Education, the accrediting body for American...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily As the federal government goes into day 17 of a shutdown due to Washington politicians disputing the expiration of Obamacare provisions, Medicaid providers in North Carolina are grappling with less funding already from the state and planning ahead for what could come down the pike. “We’re...