Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Faced with a decision between placing a hiring freeze on an open police officer position or dipping into the town’s fund balance to make up an expected budget shortfall, Maggie Valley aldermen opted to do neither. Instead, at a town board meeting held earlier this week,...

David Hodges & Naomi Kowles/WBTV Law enforcement officials raided three Charlotte properties Thursday morning as part of an FBI investigation into health care fraud. A civil forfeiture complaint filed by the FBI in federal court on Thursday, Oct. 16 shows agents are investigating prominent community activist Cedric Dean and his...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A state grant approved 3 1/2 years ago to facilitate an economic development project in an underserved part of High Point was not used and is no longer available. The North Carolina Department of Commerce in April 2022 authorized a $300,000 building reuse grant for...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio For the third year in a row, North Carolina’s Promise initiative is facing a multimillion-dollar deficit amid significant enrollment gains across its four member institutions. Under the program, in-state students at four UNC System schools pay only $500 per semester for tuition and out-of-state students $2,500. Since...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press As the federal government crept into its third week of shutdown Wednesday, deadlines for when some essential services that affect North Carolina residents will run out of funding are quickly nearing or have already passed. Food and nutrition programs. Federal court operations. Disaster relief funds. All...

Anne Blythe/CityView When Republican lawmakers asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider a landmark ruling in the Leandro case in 2023, it took the court’s new Republican majority only 30 days to grant the unusual request. It was the latest in a 30-year legal battle over the right to a...

David Purtell/Triangle Business Journal Gregory Poole Equipment Co. plans to move its headquarters out of Raleigh. But it’s not going far. The company founded in 1951 is relocating its headquarters to a nearly 130-acre property in Garner that the firm acquired earlier this year for more than $36 million. Gregory...

David Ford/WFDD Radio Governor Josh Stein joined Guilford Technical Community College Wednesday for the groundbreaking of its new $34.6 million Cameron training center. The move comes as the region prepares for the arrival of several aviation companies at nearby Piedmont Triad International Airport. The new 70,000-square-foot building will expand the...

Collin Binkley/The Associated Press For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price? Public confidence in higher...

WWAY News New Hanover County Sheriff Ed McMahon has announced he is switching his political affiliation from Democrat to Republican  and plans to seek re-election in 2026. In a statement, McMahon said the decision came after “careful and prayerful consideration” and was made for personal reasons, saying that the move...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News This cycle, Canton’s ballot carries the weight of five hard years. A global pandemic. Tropical Storm Fred in 2021. A mill closure in 2023 that upended municipal finance. Hurricane Helene in 2024. The next four years will test the town’s ability to finish flood recovery, modernize...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Jessica Padilla remembers packing her bags last October and boarding a flight from Miami to Charlotte to join her husband. He had already moved a few months prior. One thing that stood out: How many others on her flight were doing the same thing. “South Floridians traveling...

Joseph Williams/The (Whiteville) News Reporter Two seats are up for grabs on the Tabor City Town Council, where a three-term incumbent faces three challengers in this year’s election. Incumbent Lamont Grate is seeking re-election to one of the two open seats, competing against Bryan Culbertson, Chris Fowler and Mitchell Strickland...

Jennifer Allen & Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online The nor’easter that swept up the East Coast this past weekend stripped ocean beaches of sand, inundated areas with floodwaters and pushed seawater over dunes and roads along North Carolina’s coast. The Outer Banks suffered much of the brunt of the powerful system...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Two North Carolina nursing homes have agreed to stop automatically denying admission to people with substance use disorder, in a landmark settlement that could pave the way for expanded health care access at a nursing home or other long-term care facility to North Carolinians who...