Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Fayetteville officials said Monday they will begin strictly enforcing a clear bag policy for Festival Park events, after several city council members criticized staff for taking months to act on public safety directives issued following a shooting at the spring Dogwood Festival. During an Oct. 6 work...

Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio A new street outreach program in Mecklenburg County is up and running with the goal of breaking barriers to mental health care. The new street psychiatry program has been running for about a month with two psychiatrists and a nurse. The team currently goes out two days...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A development company proposing to build a neighborhood on land in New Hanover County that includes a forest of centuries-old trees will “continue to fight” to see its plans through, the company’s founder said. Copper Builders founder Wade Miller earlier this week called out what he...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Most people likely know pertussis by its more common name — whooping cough, which comes from the “whoop” sound made as the person tries to catch their breath in between violent coughing spells. The Corbin family in Chapel Hill is well acquainted with the other nickname...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Tuesday, voters in 18 counties trickled to the polls in the second of three sets of elections this fall to elect the leaders of North Carolina’s cities and towns. The first round of elections in September decided which candidates would move forward to the general election...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh The Raleigh City Council voted Tuesday evening to give the green light to Raleigh Development Co.’s plans for building up to a 30-story mixed-use apartment tower at the intersection of Peace and West streets. Why it matters: The rezoning application from Raleigh Development was one of the...

Mary Smith/CBS 17 News While we still have more than a month left in hurricane season, October historically is the third busiest month for the storms. On top of that, the federal government shutdown is making it difficult for some homeowners looking to add or renew their flood insurance policies....

Paul Garber/WFDD Radio The North Carolina State Board of Elections has forwarded information from an investigation involving Rockingham Sheriff Sam Page to the State Bureau of Investigation. A spokesman for the State Board of Elections says the agency conducted interviews with current and former Rockingham County Board of Elections officials...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily The planned transition of the federally funded NCWorks Career Center to Cape Fear Community College has collapsed just over one month after the contract was awarded. A problem with the college’s background check policy led to the partnership dissolution and has left NCWorks without a place...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio On a dusty, warm day last October, nearly a month after Hurricane Helene tore across the southeastern United States, Donald Trump stood behind a podium in Swannanoa, North Carolina, to pledge funding and support to survivors of the disaster. “In the wake of this horrible...

Pat Welter & Brian Murphy/WRAL News A University of North Carolina assistant football coach was suspended and athletes in all ticketed sports, including football and men’s basketball, were sent a text message Tuesday to remind them that selling their complimentary tickets to games could impact their eligibility and violate NCAA...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer More than a month after the state cracked down on the flood debris landfill in Canton, mulch piles that combusted and began burning in June are still smoldering, and pollution is still running into the Pigeon River. Neighbors living around the landfill say conditions have improved...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise An effort that started in 2017 to redevelop a downtown block has been stalled for years. Downtown High Point has been unable to add to the four properties it acquired in the 700 block of N. Main Street for a possible residential or mixed-use project....

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog The competition for Buncombe County hospital expansion is intensifying as UNC Health and UNC Health Pardee will join AdventHealth, Mission Health and Novant Health in a quest for 129 beds under the state’s Certificate of Need process. UNC Health and UNC Health Pardee will seek to...

Pat Welter/WRAL News Bill Belichick sold his UNC football program as the “33rd NFL team.”  Through five games as a college football coach, the Tar Heels rank 128th in points per game out of the 136 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams. Pick a stat right now, it’s...