Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A new report from UNCW details more removals and alterations leadership have made to comply with the UNC System’s 2024 equality policy, showing the university is continuing to dig deeper into ensuring compliance. After the UNC System implemented a policy banning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Helene washed out sewer pipes, overflowed septic systems, and washed water treatment plants into rivers all over. Much of this infrastructure was old, and extreme rainfall caused by climate change poses new risks. A new tranche of funding from the Environmental Protection Agency could help...

Deana Harley/CBS 17 News Some 80,000 voters in North Carolina will not need to update their voter registration to vote in the next federal election after months of back and forth between the State Board of Elections, the Department of Justice, and the Democratic National Committee. Under the Help America...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The roaster looks almost like an old steam locomotive, its polished steel drum gleaming under fluorescent light, a hulking American-made machine with heat coursing through its belly. Bins of beans — raw, pale, grassy — wait their turn to be transformed into fragrant, oily perfection. The...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The news about crops out of North Carolina farms is good this year: the corn is tall, the soybeans leafy, the cotton fluffy and the apples ripe. Compared to last year’s disastrous summer, when it seemed flooding was the only relief from extreme drought, this...

Mary Helen Moore/WUNC Radio Recreational flounder season is underway in North Carolina, allowing anglers a brief two-week window to catch and keep the popular fish. The state hopes to unlock more fishing opportunities next year by separating the season for southern flounder — which scientists believe has been overfished —...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Congress has cut federal funding for public media — an $800,000 loss for WFAE. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism. Charlotte Area Transit System interim CEO Brent Cagle said Wednesday that fare enforcement on...

Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina’s agriculture commissioner last week started sending checks to farmers who were affected by natural disasters like Hurricane Helene. The payments are part of a $478 million dollar allocation from a statewide Helene-relief bill. The state received more than 8,000 applications for aid...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Residents expressed their concerns to the New Hanover County commissioners this week, urging them to hold Novant Health accountable for patient care and safety standards. About 30 demonstrators gathered outside of the New Hanover County commissioner meeting on Sept. 2 to demand commissioners address poor patient...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The state has issued another environmental violation to the debris landfill in Canton for discharging pollutants into a local river — this time from the solid waste division of the Department of Environmental Quality. This violation was the sixth that Two Banks Development’s landfill received in...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Two more people have dropped out of the November Fayetteville City Council election, Cumberland County Elections Director Angie Amaro told CityView on Tuesday. Khalil Younger, who was running for the District 7 seat, and Robbie Poole, who was running for the District 8 seat, withdrew around August 19,...

Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday denied two teams — one owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan — a preliminary injunction in their antitrust suit against NASCAR to be recognized as chartered teams for the remainder of the season. Judge Kenneth Bell of the U.S....

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News North Carolina students are making big gains in math, though they remain behind the proficiency rates of 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, new data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction shows. Statewide test proficiency rates are still behind pre-pandemic levels across...

Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio Local governments and environmental advocates are asking the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to establish a preliminary health goal for 1,4 dioxane in drinking water. Similar to PFAS, 1,4 dioxane is a toxic, man-made chemical that can cause cancer over a lifetime of exposure....

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio A Charlotte City Council committee Tuesday approved a framework for appointing board members to a new transit authority, which would be enacted if voters approve a new 1-cent sales tax in November. Some officials, however, were skeptical — even some of those who voted yes. If voters...