Ben Crosbie/WCHL Chapelboro Clinical research company Thermo Fisher Scientific held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of its new facility in Mebane on Thursday. Production will begin within the next few weeks at the 375,000-square-foot facility, which will focus mainly on manufacturing precision pipette tips for use in labs...

Nancy McCleary/Sanford Herald The Lee County commissioners voted to move ahead with the process involved in securing a lease agreement from the state for the Endor Iron Furnace property. The 426-acre tract along the Deep River in Cumnock is a designated historic site owned by the state, according to Chad...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio North Carolina could take a $3 billion hit to its economy if a White House request to slash National Institutes of Health funding ends up in the final federal budget. In its discretionary budget proposal for next fiscal year, the Trump Administration recommended a 40% cut to...

Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News Waves from Hurricane Erin surged over N.C. Highway 12, Wednesday, pushing seawater and sand across the asphalt and breaching dunes along the fragile barrier islands of the Outer Banks. For longtime residents, scenes like this are no longer rare. And a new collaborative study suggests that these...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Brunswick County Board of Education voted to pay for its students’ Advanced Placement exams this school year after the North Carolina Senate chose to nix its coverage in its proposed budget. The school board took up the issue at its Tuesday committee meetings. Though the...

Amy McCraw/Hendersonville Lightning Not much has changed on Lake Summit nearly a year after Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina. Water continues to pour freely over the inoperable and aging dam on the lake. And while the Scottsdale, Ariz., company that owns the Tuxedo Hydroelectric Project and state inspectors say...

Guy Lucas Enterprise/The (High Point) Enterprise Classes at High Point University began this week with a freshman class nearly 10% larger than last year’s, the university announced Thursday. The class numbers 1,671 students, up 143, or 9.4%, from last year’s freshman class and accounts for the bulk of HPU’s overall...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News In the wake of the controversy surrounding former Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran, the new sheriff, Brian Kirkland, only a month and a half on the job, will have company on the ballot come 2026. While sheriff candidates filing this early isn’t unheard of (there’s already...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A bridge across Jonathan Creek that was destroyed by Helene has still not been repaired, leaving residents in the area frustrated and confused about the delay. Haywood County Bridge 46 connects Coleman Mountain Road to Jonathan Creek Road near the Interstate 40 exit 20 entrance ramp....

Jeremy McDermott/InSight Crime Even as the infamy of the Tren de Aragua grows in the Americas, its cohesion and organization are weakening. The assertion by the regime of Nicolás Maduro that Tren de Aragua has been wiped out in Venezuela is fiction. The taking of the prison of Tocorón, the...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Registered voters of Holden Beach will decide this November whether to approve a multi-million bond that would pay for construction of a new town-owned pier. Holden Beach commissioners on Tuesday evening unanimously agreed to move ahead with plans to get a $7.3 million bond referendum added...

Kevin Ellis/Business North Carolina Two sold-out nights of Banana Ball at Bank of America Stadium in June generated $38.6 million in total economic impact, based on a report by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority released Wednesday. Those numbers compare favorably to last year’s ACC football championship game between Clemson and...

WRAL News Rip currents and large waves from Erin prompted coastal towns to issue no-swimming advisories lasting through Friday. The National Hurricane Center said the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda will face a risk of dangerous surf and rip currents across the western Atlantic basin throughout the week. To assist...

Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Some employers and health systems in North Carolina are looking to change how they manage prescription drug benefits for their employees. More employers are considering alternative pharmacy benefit managers — or PBMs — to run the drug benefits in their employees’ health insurance plan. For the...

Sarah White/The Mountaineer N.C. Rep. Mark Pless doesn’t have a strong record of following campaign finance rules. In just the last four years, he’s garnered six late filing penalties — the latest could put a hold on his campaign spending entirely. Political candidates and representatives must file regular reports of...