Brian Murphy/WRAL News Incoming undergraduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill could see a tuition and fee increase beginning next year, for the first time in nearly a decade. North Carolina State University is also proposing tuition increases for all of its students as public universities deal with expected budget cuts from...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press This fall, Asheville’s Mission Hospital faced Immediate Jeopardy, the most serious citation federal regulators can deliver, for the second time in two years. Once again, the beleaguered hospital system appears to have wiggled its way out of meaningful consequences. The hospital has submitted a plan...

Chandler Inions/The (Salisbury) Post      “I can’t wait until I can take a knife, cut a Sunkist orange into quarters and enjoy it.” Such a small urge might not seem like a tall task but denying himself foods that he loves has become a reality for Livingstone College President Dr. Anthony...

Charlie Kingree/Wilmington StarNews Two new Amazon facilities are being built at the Pender Commerce Park, a 330-acre industrial park located off U.S. 421 close to the New Hanover County border. One is specifically being built to serve customers in the greater Wilmington area, while the other has a much larger...

Deanna Ballard/Education NC The smell hit first — that unmistakable scent of fresh paint, new flooring, and possibility that​ only exists in a building waiting to be filled with life. But on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 22,​ Valle Crucis School wasn’t waiting anymore. The front doors were held open...

The (Waynesville) Mountaineer One of two lanes along Interstate 40 eastbound between Waynesville and Canton will close next week from 9 p.m. Monday night until Thursday afternoon. A contractor for the N.C. Department of Transportation is closing a lane from mile marker 29 to Champion Drive (exit 31) to shift...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily More businesses are one step closer to setting up in Surf City in a recently approved conditional rezoning, though residents and council members alike shared concerns over the town’s sewage and traffic capacity. On Nov. 5, the Surf City Town Council approved the conditional rezoning of...

Charlotte Business Journal One of the Charlotte region’s most prominent economic development figures is retiring. Mike Legg, Kannapolis’ longtime city manager, announced today he would retire on April 30. Legg has served as city manager since 2004. He worked for the city for nearly a decade before that. Legg was...

Outer Banks Voice/Kip Tabb Fourteen houses have fallen into the Atlantic Ocean on the north end of Buxton since the end of summer, and more will fall this winter said Brian Harris, President of the Buxton Civic Association. “I think we’re halfway there. It’s going to be upward of 30,”...

Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog Brittany Ebert thinks federal lawmakers might reopen the government and resume food stamp funding if they knew what it was like to feed three children on a tight budget. Ebert, who filled a bag with free produce Monday at the nonprofit Bounty & Soul’s market in Swannanoa,...

WFAE Radio Charlotte Douglas International Airport and American Airlines are warning travelers that flight cancelations have begun at CLT, as the airport implements the Federal Aviation Administration flight reduction order Friday. The FAA said air traffic controller shortages are worsening, as already overworked controllers are forced to keep working without...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio A newly formed political action committee plans to spend millions of dollars to attack Senate leader Phil Berger’s Republican opponent in next year’s primary. Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page is giving Berger his first-ever major election challenge in his district north of Greensboro. The powerful GOP senator...

Will Atwater/NC Health News At the Nov. 3 Northampton County Board of Commissioners meeting, Sylvia Vincent stood at the podium during the public comment period and voiced frustration over a newly approved community benefits agreement between the county and solar developer SunEnergy1. “You did not consider the Vultare community when...

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline FEMA is sending $155 million in new aid to North Carolina, the agency announced Friday, in a bundle of federal money that will fund 130 projects for Hurricane Helene cleanup and other disaster recovery projects. The new round of funding is the most substantial FEMA aid North...

Aaleah McConnell/WHQR & Port City Daily The former Surry County Board of Elections Chair, James Edwin Yokeley Jr., who was arrested in July for contaminating his 16-year-old step-granddaughter and her friend’s food with a schedule I controlled substance, was back in court on Tuesday for breaking the conditions of his...