Haylee Kennedy/CBS 17 News New numbers show 2025 was a record-breaking year for downtown Raleigh, with new restaurants, apartments, and shops opening up. Nearly 16,000 people call the downtown home and the majority of those residents moved in just this past year, creating a higher demand for places to live,...

Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News More than 600 people gathered in Raleigh last April at the North Carolina Rehabilitation and Reentry Conference. One perhaps unexpected attendee sat front and center: first lady Anna Stein. The reason soon became clear. Stein addressed the crowd, announcing rehabilitation and reentry as one of three...

Dasia Williams/CityView Cumberland County Schools is facing a recurring budget gap of about $5 million, largely because it is operating more school buildings than it needs for a shrinking student population. Jay Toland, the district’s associate superintendent of business operations, told the Cumberland County Board of Education on Friday that...

Andrew Marshall/The Waynesville Mountaineer The town of Waynesville is moving forward with plans to install solar panels and solar energy battery storage to its public works building. The project, funded primarily through a grant from the Dogwood Health Trust for almost $500,000, will create a resilient disaster response hub for...

Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio The former owner of the Charlotte Checkers has been indicted on federal tax fraud charges. Federal prosecutors say Michael A. Kahn is charged with filing false tax returns and failing to report income he allegedly took from his charitable foundation. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...

Bradley George/WUNC News North Carolina’s infrastructure gets a C- in a new report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The report card’s authors looked at the condition of stormwater, wastewater, dams, roads, bridges, drinking water, and aviation. One area of concern is making sure water utilities can...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press A NC A&T student came up to county elections board Democrat Carolyn Bunker in tears after the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ January meeting. The board had just voted 3-2 to exclude two Guilford County college campuses from early voting primary plans. Unlike many of...

Mebane Rash/Education NC In celebration of National School Choice Week, the U.S. Departments of Education and Treasury released a joint fact sheet on the federal education tax cut on Tuesday, which was included in Sec. 70411 of the federal budget reconciliation bill and signed into law by President Donald Trump...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Since Terry Ramey was elected to the county commission in 2022, his property tax records have haunted him. But an anonymous donation may have settled the matter once and for all. When Ramey was elected, he had about $2,100 of unpaid property taxes and interest, which...

Smoky Mountain News The boards of county commissioners and county supervisors in the 17 counties in North Carolina and 12 counties in Virginia that host the Blue Ridge Parkway have passed resolutions of support calling for funding to repair the national park and implement the Blue Ridge Rising Action Plan....

Bob Liepa/Wilmington StarNews The perception of crime, homelessness, aggressive panhandling and the cost of parking is taking a bite out of small businesses in downtown Wilmington. So says Tom Harris, one of the owners of Front Street Brewery at 9 North Front St. Now he hopes a meeting with the...

WRAL News State elections officials agreed Wednesday to delay a legal hearing on the eligibility of a Republican running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, who is alleged to live out of state. Elections officials have been investigating whether Margot Dupre is actually a Florida resident following a complaint by...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A popular coastal town is once again looking to restructure rates in its parking program, which could come with an increase for hourly parkers on the weekend, but a decrease for weekday visitors. Wrightsville Beach held its budget meeting between town staff and the board of...

Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio A measles outbreak centered in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has become the largest in the nation in more than two decades, according to state health officials. The state on Tuesday reported nearly 790 cases tied to the outbreak, which began in October — surpassing an...

Guy Lucas/The High Point Enterprise Bethany Medical and founder Dr. Lenny Peters have agreed to pay more than $8.8 million to resolve allegations of submitting bills to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Tuesday. Peters was accused by state and...