John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog It’s a wrestling match out there, folks. Every day. And sometimes you accidentally cut a catfish in half with a battery powered saw. More about that later. This is the situation on local waterways such as the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers post-Helene. But especially the French...

WRAL News A North Carolina restaurant has earned a coveted Michelin Star designation. The popular guide announced its “American South” selections Monday night and while only Charlotte-based Counter earned a Michelin Star, other restaurants in the Raleigh area were honored too. Michelin Travel Guides are available in Paris, New York,...

Jose Sandoval/Blue Ridge Public Radio The city of Asheville is continuing to eye Hurricane Helene recovery. On Tuesday, City Council members unanimously approved 44 appointees to its new Helene recovery boards. As previously reported by BPR, Asheville followed the advice of Research Triangle Park-based consultancy Fountainworks to implement a new...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Three Fayetteville City Council members say Mayor Mitch Colvin and his allies postponed Monday’s council meeting until Nov. 10 to prevent a politically fraught topic—contractors’ abandonment of six construction projects—from being discussed less than 24 hours before Election Day. The three council members also question whether the...

Rachel Crumpler & Rose Hoban/NC Health News Jessica Bollinger, a single mother of two from McDowell County, spent Saturday poring over her family budget and trying to make the numbers work. On the third of each month, she usually receives $318 in federal food assistance to buy groceries. But this...

Michaela Ratliff/WGHP News The Eastern Music Festival has filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, according to a press release. The charge comes nearly three weeks after EMF, a five-week summer music education program hosted at Guilford College in Greensboro, announced it would dissolve the...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Following the denial of two special use permit applications, an affiliate of Greensboro-based developer The Carroll Companies is suing New Hanover County and the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners. The lawsuit, filed in New Hanover Superior Court earlier this month, centers around the board’s Sept. 2 denial...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News As the sun set behind the Saunook fire station in west Haywood County, members of the community gathered in the bay that would normally house the fire trucks and anxiously took their seats. They were told the news was good, they just didn’t know how good....

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Piedmont Triad International Airport saw a solid rise in passenger traffic last month, according to the latest numbers presented at the Tuesday, Oct. 28 Airport Authority Board meeting.  That’s the board that oversees and ultimately calls the shots at the airport. Passengers in and out of...

Liz Bell/Education NC Henrietta Zalkind, executive director of the Down East Partnership for Children, speaks on the importance of local mobilization for child care policy change. Liz Bell/EdNC There is not enough child care to meet families’ needs. The main reason, experts say, is that child care teachers cannot afford...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A housing development might be coming to Clyde in the near future, creating an opportunity for the town to regain the tax base it lost as a result of flooding during Tropical Storms Fred and Helene. The developer is a national firm called Forestar, a subsidiary...

Kani’ya Davis/WUNC Radio The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute received a more than $292,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to support farm communities impacted by Helene. The institute’s three partner universities, N.C. State University, East Carolina University and N.C. A&T State University, will use the grant to expand mental health services...

Sarayu Thondapu/The Daily Tar Heel Last month, former UNC men’s basketball captain Marcus Ginyard ’10 was appointed director of special projects, a new role supporting both the University’s Public Affairs and Finance and Operations offices. Ginyard will also work closely with the chancellor and coordinate projects with the Board of...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Following the NC Department of Health and Human Services’ unprecedented takeovers of two county departments of social services this year, the statewide association of DSS directors raised “urgent concerns” over the state’s handling of such cases. Emails and letters obtained by Carolina Public Press revealed that...

Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Following a discussion Thursday at a Board of Commissioners workshop on school safety and the lack of officers to cover all schools, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields recognized that his office could hypothetically take over policing duties for the district. With nearly the entire Board...