Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise City officials say they don’t yet know the local impact of a planned merger of two paint companies that have a combined 500 employees in High Point. AkzoNobel shareholders would own a majority of the combined company if its merger with Axalta goes through, as...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Godwin’s town commissioner elections from November cannot be trusted, the Cumberland County Board of Elections unanimously decided on Friday, based on its conclusion that the former town clerk could have influenced voters with text messages and telephone calls. The board’s vote is a recommendation to the North Carolina...

Port City Daily At nearly 7 a.m. Thursday, Bald Head Island Ferry’s “The Patriot” ran aground on a shoaling just outside the harbor. 105 passengers and three crewmembers were aboard the vessel, though there were no reported injuries, according to Bion Stewart, Bald Head Island Transportation’s vice president of operations....

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio North Carolina health officials are reporting 17 measles cases in the state since December. The United States is experiencing a major measles outbreak, with close to 1,000 cases in nearby South Carolina. While North Carolina’s total is far lower, the latest figure represents two more cases of...

Lora Lavigne/WRAL News The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is scaling back service hours at dozens of driver license offices across the state, a move that could add to frustrations for customers already facing long wait times and limited appointment availability. Beginning Monday, Feb. 9, the DMV will no...

WNCN News A month after taking legal action against North Carolina State University over the toxic chemical exposure in Poe Hall, former students and staff have filed a lawsuit against a chemical company connected to the building. Poe Hall has been closed since November 2023 after testing determined the presence...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio The town of Canton could be the latest North Carolina municipality to ban cryptocurrency mining and data centers. Last month, the town board passed a resolution to hold a public hearing on the matter on Feb. 11, after multiple companies contacted community leaders to see...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News The State Board of Education has set its priorities for the upcoming legislative short session, approving a more than $1 billion set of requests for state lawmakers on a split 8-2 vote. The requests include a new special education funding formula, costing about $200 million. They also...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Cumberland County’s leaders want the state legislature to give them $98.5 million for water and sewer construction, school maintenance and construction—including a new E.E. Smith High School—mental health services, construction of a regional aquatics center, and emergency responder equipment. However, they may not ask for the full amount,...

Rachel Crumpler/Carolina Public Press Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and another in an attack at Bertie Correctional Institution. It was the deadliest year for prison staff in state history. Investigations that followed pointed to...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio North Carolina schools saw a decrease in crimes for the third year in a row last school year, according to the latest numbers released Wednesday from the state Department of Public Instruction. The number of crimes reported at North Carolina schools fell by around 6.1% to 11,470....

Clayton Henkel/Coastal Review Online North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says even as snow from last weekend’s storm begins to melt, his office has received a flurry of calls from business owners and lifetime Outer Banks residents upset to see more homes falling into the Atlantic Ocean. The powerful storm,...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio A new audit lists vacant leadership in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools finance department as one of the district’s top challenges in recovering from its financial crisis. Back in September, months after the district’s $46 million deficit was revealed, the State Board of Education voted to hire an...

Chantal Brown/Education NC It may sound cliché, but the idea came about during a typical dinner outing in Durham. Duke University professor Dr. Jan Riggsbee and her colleagues at the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences education program talked about how they could make a difference in schools. The conversation...

Brian Burns/WUNC News This week, PBS North Carolina’s Shaped by Sound returns for a second season. This season will feature 13 performances and interviews from artists from across the state and a variety of genres from indie rock to gospel to jazz. “If this season’s lineup was a festival, I...