Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog In August, when the University of North Carolina Asheville announced it was pausing a controversial plan to build a stadium-anchored development atop 45 acres of wooded campus, the school said it would appoint a commission to engage the community and evaluate ideas. Its work would continue into...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News & WFAE Radio On Friday, North Carolina will be the only state in the country to no longer have a statewide collaborative focused on improving perinatal care. The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina stands to lose its entire $905,000 budget on Friday, a spokeswoman for...

Benjamin Schachtman/WHQR Today, the North Carolina GOP said it had learned of an alleged cash-for-votes scheme in Wilmington. The county Democratic party denounced both any potential election fraud and the GOP’s reaction. State and local Republicans shared allegations that one voter received text messages offering cash from three Democratic candidates...

Taylor Knopf/NC Health News At a time when the nation’s drug supply has become increasingly unpredictable, Nabarun Dasgupta uses what he calls “science in service” to bring some clarity to the chaos. Dasgupta has spent two decades using data to tell the story behind street drugs and their hidden dangers....

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A rockslide on the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville last Wednesday night, Oct. 29, left some drivers shaken but uninjured. The first vehicle to encounter the slide didn’t see it in time to stop. The driver was coming through Frying Pan Tunnel and ran into...

John Marshall/The Associated Press Kyle Busch bought what he thought was a safe life insurance plan that would provide self-funding income for his retirement. When Pacific Life Insurance Company sent a sixth premium notice on what was supposed to be a five-year payment plan — and most of the money...

Michael Koh/WCHL Chapelboro The Orange Water and Sewer Authority announced Thursday it has received $1.96 million for PFAS treatment as part of a settlement with the company 3M, a major manufacturer of PFAS. According to OWASA, the funds will be used to offset the cost of treatment to reduce PFAS...

Joy Crist/Coastal Review Online Debris from five oceanfront home collapses continues to cover the shoreline in Buxton as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) moves forward with a coordinated cleanup response, despite the ongoing federal shutdown. The public is advised to avoid the beach south of Old Lighthouse Road, where...

Doug Bock Clark/ProPublica In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office. The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the...

Paul Specht & Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News North Carolina legislators are summoning Chapel Hill school officials to Raleigh to explain their objections to a set of laws that ban discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools from kindergarten to fourth grade, among other things. The law, which sponsors...

WSOC News Gov. Josh Stein announced on Thursday the discovery of a new tyrannosaur species, Nanotyrannus, at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Thursday. The discovery, made in collaboration with North Carolina State University, is based on the “Dueling Dinosaurs” fossil, which was found in the Hell Creek...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press A court hearing is set for Nov. 6 for University of North Carolina at Greensboro student Alisia Rea, who was seen in a viral video earlier this month being physically restrained by several UNCG police officers, while questioning officers’ treatment of her boyfriend, Greensboro resident Quinten...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Many federally funded Head Start programs across North Carolina will be forced to close their doors on Friday as the government shutdown continues. The closures could impact roughly 4,500 children in the state — many in rural counties where other child care options are limited, or nonexistent....

Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News North Carolina State University formally installed Kevin Howell as the 15th chancellor in school history during a special ceremony on Thursday. The event was held at Reynolds Coliseum, including N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger, UNC System President Peter Hans, UNC Board of Governors Chair Wendy Murphy,...

Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio More than 200 people attended a conference at a Charlotte hotel in the University City area on Thursday that aimed to raise awareness about the importance of addressing mental health. With mental health needs still high years after the COVID-19 pandemic and access to care a challenge...