Jesse Deal/The Stanly News & Press      On Monday night, the Stanly County Board of Education and the Stanly County Board of Commissioners met in Albemarle for a special-called joint session to discuss a grant application that could fund major facility improvement projects. The meeting focused on Stanly County Schools’ plan...

Henry Taylor/WCHL Chapelboro UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and Board of Trustees Chair Malcolm K. Turner spoke with members of the media following the university’s BOT meeting at the Carolina Inn on Thursday, Sep. 25. They answered questions on a number of issues facing the university, including performance-based funding, Carolina football’s...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The owner of the construction company that abandoned several city construction projects in Fayetteville made a $1,000 donation to Mayor Mitch Colvin in August 2021, state election records show. City Council Member Mario Benavente, who is one of nine candidates attempting to unseat Colvin in this year’s mayoral...

Rachel Crumpler & Taylor Knopf/NC Health News In early September, video of a man stabbing 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on a light rail car in Charlotte shocked the country. People from across the political spectrum demanded answers: How does a horrific, unprovoked attack occur between two strangers?...

Jay Price/WUNC Radio Major changes are coming for the North Carolina National Guard. But so far nothing related to the Trump Administration’s controversial use of guard troops in Democrat-led cities. As part of an ongoing Army-wide transformation, the state guard’s largest unit, the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, will be...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press On a mild late-summer afternoon in September, 86-year-old Tom Westall watered the flowers newly planted in the median on Locust Street in downtown Spruce Pine in Mitchell County. “I love watching things grow,” said Westall, a lifelong Spruce Pine resident whose family operated Westall’s Food Market...

Laura Hackett/WFAE Radio Amy Slusher, a server at Taco Billy, says the trauma from Hurricane Helene has rewired her nervous system. The sensation feels like a “very thin veil” of an “alternate reality,” she said. “What it used to be and what it is now are so very intertwined.” She’s...

Allen G. Breed & Brittany Peterson/The Associated Press Bracing himself against the current in waist-deep water, Clancy Loorham wrestles a broken length of PVC pipe from the rocky bottom of the French Broad River and peers inside. “I got a catfish in the pipe,” the 27-year-old with wispy beard and...

Carly Haynes, WRAL News WakeMed is warning patients on Wednesday that those with UnitedHealthcare as their insurance provider could lose coverage at the hospital if the two sides do not reach a contract agreement. The health care provider signed a contract with the insurance provider to cover patients under UnitedHealthcare...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily After two weeks of waiting to finalize the vote and a night full of public disagreement, the Wilmington City Council moved forward with an anti-camping ordinance though councilmembers’ changes from the last meeting prompted the ordinance’s implementation to again be delayed another week. However, the council...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that two men have been arrested in a string of thefts targeting Duke Energy equipment – crimes that investigators say racked up about $1 million in damage and, in one case, knocked out power for about 5,600 residents for...

Daniel Kennedy/The High Point Enterprise One year after Randolph County Schools System approved a contract extension and a 2.5-percent pay raise for Superintendent Stephen Gainey, the board once again lengthened its agreement with the longtime official. Following the review of Gainey’s annual evaluation, his contract was amended for the maximum...

Ben Crosbie/WCHL Chapelboro After a year of operating in Chapel Hill, the Crisis Assistance, Response, and Engagement (CARE) team is now expanding to include Carrboro as well. The crew is hiring another social worker and adding staff for a second mobile unit, which will also allow for longer operating hours....

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Medicaid coverage will likely be cut next month – and state employees and teachers will continue to go without raises – after Republican legislative leaders concluded a session Tuesday without reaching a compromise on most state budget issues. Both the House and Senate passed “mini-budget” spending bills...

Jack Evans, John Boyle and Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog It has been almost one year since Tropical Storm Helene blew through western North Carolina. The storm toppled trees and triggered landslides, scarring a region known worldwide for its beauty. It ripped through the essentials of modern life so many of us...