Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily  A transportation sales tax across New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties is in the early stages of research at the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, though elected leaders are looking for constituent feedback before moving forward.  On Aug. 26, members of the WMPO’s Alternative Funding...

Taylor Knopf/NC Health News A new psychiatric hospital in Greenville will begin serving patients in eastern North Carolina later this month. ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital is a new 144-bed facility intended to provide inpatient and intensive outpatient psychiatric services to adults and children; it will open with a 24-bed...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog Mission Hospital CEO Greg Lowe has told employees the company wants to hire 200 employees over just more than three months beginning on Sept. 22, according to a document obtained by Asheville Watchdog. “You asked, we listened,” Lowe said in a newsletter sent to staff and...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Mecklenburg County is one of 10 North Carolina counties with primary elections this fall. Charlotte is one of even fewer municipalities with contests set for next week. In the largely Democratic stronghold, the primaries generally decide the overall winner. Turnout is usually low. In the 2023...

Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/EducationNC Four North Carolina community colleges have joined a network spearheaded by the Aspen Institute whose goal is to align these colleges’ programs with available career and bachelor’s degree pathways, according to a press release. The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program announced the 55 community colleges that will join...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A truck driver who claims he was terrorized and assaulted by an angry mob of landfill workers at a flood debris site in Canton has made good on his threat of a lawsuit. A federal lawsuit against the private landfill company and six of its employees...

Charlie Kingree/Wilmington StarNews Avelo Airlines flights from Wilmington to Houston will stop after September, while Detroit service will only run during peak periods. The airline is cutting the routes earlier than originally planned due to low demand. Travelers can still book one-stop flights to these cities on various airlines. Two...

Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare Shifting federal COVID-19 vaccine criteria are making seasonal vaccinations a more complicated process, both for patients and providers. Retail pharmacies are often the most convenient places for patients to get COVID-19 vaccines, and, up until recently, it didn’t require a prescription and insurance companies covered the shots....

Donica Phifer/Axios Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that President Trump may grant some exclusions on tariffs for home construction supplies, potentially offering relief to homebuilders. Why it matters: The housing market has stalled as the cost of purchasing has risen and supply has dwindled. High interest rates, as well...

Brian Gordon/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Natron Energy, the sodium-ion battery startup that last summer promised to create 1,000 jobs at a future $1.4 billion factory in Eastern North Carolina, will stop operating as a company Wednesday due to funding issues. “We appreciate our customers and partners support though our...

Ryan Kilgallen/The (Duke) Chronicle International students at Duke are facing new challenges this year as visa delays and denials rippled through undergraduate and graduate programs, due to restrictive policies implemented by the Trump administration. The fallout has already reshaped the start of the semester. Some graduate students attended their first...

Kaitlyn Dang/WRAL News Wake County and the town of Zebulon are looking for a new operator for Five County Stadium. And a familiar name is in the running. Public documents provided ahead of Tuesday night’s Wake County’s Board of Commissioners meeting proposes Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) as the new lessee...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Some City Council members are concerned that it may be difficult for transit riders to serve on a new transit authority board. 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....

Michelle Crouch/Charlotte Ledger & NC Health News When city of Charlotte workers get sick, they don’t have to wait weeks for a primary care appointment or shell out a co-pay for an urgent care visit. Instead, they can often be seen on the same day, at no charge, at one...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press In late August, the Department of Homeland Security gave the North Carolina State Board of Elections six days to decide whether to take an invitation-only, “exciting opportunity” to root out noncitizens from its voter roll. If the elections board took the deal, it would hand over...