Mark Rogers/The Sanford Herald Lee County Commissioners had the chance to learn about a variety of topics during the first day of their board retreat Thursday. They gathered at the San Lee Park Nature Center to hear presentations that included a legislative update by State Sen. Jim Burgin (R), an...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Guilford County commissioners are set to approve a one-month extension of the county’s contract with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Center for Housing and Community Studies at their Thursday, Jan. 15 meeting in order to allow the full use of remaining federal pandemic relief...

Dee Pridgen/828 News Now Buncombe County sheriff candidate Victor “Vic” Morman is facing a formal challenge to his eligibility to run for office, an issue that will be considered during a special meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Elections on Jan. 20. The meeting is scheduled for 2:30 p.m....

Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer Rebuilding Waynesville’s dog park may not be a top spending priority for town leaders as the post-Helene financial crunch sets in. Town council was presented with a new cost estimate to rebuild the dog park at its meeting Tuesday night — around $431,000 — with the...

Colin Campbell/WUNC News For the past 65 years, Saint Andrews University has been a major economic engine for the small town of Laurinburg, in Scotland County near the South Carolina line. And with more than a thousand students and staff in a town of about 15,000 people, the university was...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily One local beach town is trying out a new tactic to entice jobseekers to its doorsteps, following a request for action from its town manager. Earlier this week, the Carolina Beach Town Council voted unanimously in favor of increasing merit raises from 2% to 4% to...

Bill Moss & Amy B. McCraw/Hendersonville Lightning Amid more than 20 charges of alleged child-sex abuse that suggest a moral bankruptcy at Only Hope WNC, the nonprofit agency has filed a petition to liquidate its assets and pay creditors the proceeds. The last remaining leaders of the organization founded by...

Elena Marsh/The Southern Pines Pilot The Moore County Board of Commissioners is still exploring the feasibility of a few future water sources. The current preferred option, a reservoir at Crystal Lake, would provide an asset the county owns outright, but it is not without its challenges. At a work session...

Jose Sandoval/Blue Ridge Public Radio Several dozen UNC Asheville students and community members gathered outside of Highsmith Student Union on Friday to protest the development of portions of the Millennial Campus property, which includes 45 acres of urban forest. The walk-out was organized by local artist Spenser Beals who got...

Outer Banks Voice A Jan. 15 story on NC Local reports that Immigration and Customers Enforcement agents (ICE) arrested more than 3,300 people in North Carolina between President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 and Oct. 15, 2025.  The data show that very few of those arrests have occurred on the...

Ben Briscoe/WFMY News New research shows tariffs are costing North Carolina farmers nearly $700 million and threatening thousands of jobs. Tariffs designed to protect American manufacturing are having an unintended side effect for North Carolina farmers driving up costs and shrinking overseas markets. On his farm, Mike Jones says the...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press For months, Adrian Pitts followed the news with bated breath as Congress fought — and eventually shut down the federal government — over whether to extend COVID-era subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace health plans. Pitts, a 57-year-old small business owner and Hendersonville resident, was one...

Sydney Lupkin/WUNC News Since September, 16 major drug companies have inked deals with the Trump administration to lower prices. But in January — the time of year when pharmaceutical companies typically roll out price hikes — all 16 companies released higher list prices for some of their drugs. The agreements,...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Restoring land as close to how it was more than two centuries ago is by no means a cheap venture. Just ask Louis Moore Bacon. Since 2012, Bacon has invested more than $100 million in the property on which his ancestor, Roger Moore, founded Orton Plantation...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer An election for register of deeds is often overlooked as a sleeper race, but in Haywood County, the race has taken an interesting turn — with the sanctity of the county’s property deeds and vital records on the line. On one side is an experienced, stalwart...