Anne Blythe/NC Health News Many health care systems talk about three main pillars of care for treating cancer patients: medical, surgical and radiation oncology. It turns out that having state-of-the-art radiation technology can not only help heal patients, it can also be beneficial to a hospital system’s bottom line. A...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press Elon University is filling a longtime gap in the Charlotte market with the announcement of its new law school program that will accept applications this fall and begin operating in the city in the fall of 2027. The part-time flex program and full-time Juris Doctor program...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog An 88-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery at Mission Hospital died after going 13 hours without receiving a needed blood transfusion. Another patient’s heart stopped for 15 minutes leading to brain damage after staff didn’t respond to an urgent request for heart monitoring. Short-staffed night shift nurses...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News An anonymous payment recently applied to decades-old tax bills owed by a sitting Haywood County commissioner presents the appearance of impropriety and may violate campaign finance law and the Board of Commissioners’ ethics policy. Substantial questions about the payment remain, but at least one thing is...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis is pressing the Department of Homeland Security for answers about the U.S. Border Patrol’s Charlotte operation last November. In a four-page letter sent Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Tillis asked her to turn over detailed records from “Operation Charlotte’s Web.”...

Ferrel Guillory/Education NC As Katherine Joyce prepares to retire after two decades of advocacy on behalf of public school administrators, she recalls how a teacher in a Surry County elementary school gave her a nudge of encouragement that shaped her career. “My fifth grade teacher pulled me aside and said...

Will Doran/WRAL News Votes for Margot Dupre won’t be counted in the 2026 Republican Party primary election for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat, state elections officials ruled Wednesday. Dupre had been one of seven Republicans seeking to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis. The North Carolina State Board of...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily After nearly eight years of design revisions, funding pauses, and updated traffic modeling, state transportation officials have finalized the recommended plan to overhaul the interchange at N. College Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Presented at a Jan. 29 public meeting at UNCW by North...

The High Point Enterprise The parent companies of Kickback Jack’s restaurants must pay more than $1.1 million to settle a sex-based hiring discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission in U.S. District Court in Greensboro. Battleground Restaurants Inc. and Battleground Restaurant Group Inc., two North Carolina-based corporations doing...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro The 110-mile Haw River helps provide drinking water to more than 300,000 people, flowing through eight counties including Orange, Chatham, Alamance, and Durham. In February, the nonprofit working to protect is hosting several opportunities to hear an update on the watershed’s health and the group’s ongoing policy...

Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline 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, packing...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Nobody likes a tax increase, but this March, four county boards of commissioners are trying to sell one to voters. County commissioners in Gates, Granville, Hyde and Wayne counties voted to put a quarter-percent sales tax increase on the primary election ballot. If a majority of...

Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News Thousands of immigrants in North Carolina can no longer get food stamps under new federal rules that took effect Sunday under a provision in President Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spend legislation that was passed this summer. The law amends the federal Food and Nutrition Act to restrict Supplemental...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Sexual abuse accusations have grown at the UNC System’s largest institution, all tied to the athletics department and former sports medicine director Robert Murphy Jr. Plaintiffs include two by name and 29 others known as John Doe in the filing at Wake County Superior Court. Defendants...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio After Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was fatally stabbed on the Charlotte light rail on Aug. 22, 2025., mourners created a memorial for her at the East West light rail station. The federal government released an audit Monday that said the Charlotte Area Transit System’s safety...