Bradley George/WUNC News Two longtime staples of owning a car in North Carolina will soon go away Starting Oct. 1, the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles will no longer issue paper registration cards and license plate stickers. For decades, drivers were required to keep a registration card they could...

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline As President Donald Trump’s approval rating continues to flounder, Vice President JD Vance visited Greensboro on Monday to stump for Republicans in key congressional races in North Carolina. Recent polls show Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper maintaining a sizable lead over former Republican National Committee and North...

Molly Steur/Education NC The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the problem of chronic absenteeism for many North Carolina schools. The Education Policy Initiative at Carolina (EPIC) released a March report showing that while chronic absence rates have decreased since they peaked during the 2021-2022 school year, chronic absenteeism is still high, and...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Hundreds of candidates are vying for a seat in the state legislature this November. But political watchers don’t need to look much past Raleigh to find plenty of political intrigue. This cycle, Wake County is home to three of the state’s toss-up legislative races — two...

Joe Bruno/WSOC News Former Charlotte City Councilwoman Tiawana Brown and her two daughters will be sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to COVID-19 relief fraud. In her sentencing memorandum, Brown’s attorney says the court should impose a straight probationary sentence with no custodial component. It says she has repaid the...

Lauren Johnson/WTVD News Artificial intelligence is reshaping workplaces across industries, and at Wake Technical Community College, educators are working to make sure students are prepared. While some workers worry AI could eventually replace certain jobs, leaders at Wake Tech say the better approach is teaching students how to work alongside...

The Robesonian “At the heart of our work must always be our children. I want every student to be excited about coming to school — to know there is something waiting for them each day that sparks their curiosity, challenges them and helps them discover what they can become. Education...

Laura Douglass/The Southern Pines Pilot Housed in an unassuming building at the end of a road, one of the area’s most successful organizations is quietly making sure Moore County is a healthier place to live for everybody. Inside the doors of the Moore County Free & Charitable Clinic, medical staff...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio Landowners Tyler and Meghan Forrest said they wanted to conserve the property to ensure their son Luke and future generations could enjoy it. More than 100 acres of farm and forest land along Abbotts Creek in Davidson County are now permanently protected from development. Three Rivers Land...

Jeremy Tanner/NEXSTAR A Wendy’s franchisee that operates 314 of the fast food company’s restaurants in 15 states announced Friday that it will be filing for bankruptcy. Meritage Hospitality Group, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, announced in a news release that it was voluntarily filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer What are the boundaries of free speech? That’s the question Haywood County commissioners were faced with at their meeting last week when almost a dozen citizens showed up to talk about the weekly Hands Off Haywood protests. Since March of 2025, protesters have gathered on the...

Lisa Sorg/NC Newsline & Inside Climate News The man came out of nowhere, but he seemed to be on their side. Dozens of residents of Clemmons, a small village south of Winston-Salem, were alarmed about a proposed asphalt plant that could be built in their neighborhood, Rolling Green Village. The...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  One month after federal Justice Department officials said Duke University discriminated based on race in admissions, and two months after $108 million in federal money was frozen for Duke Health, the U.S. Department of Education has followed with a probe of foreign funding tied to America’s...

Akilah Davis/WTVD News Durham Housing Authority leaders say former Forest Hill Heights residents will have the right to return once the long-planned redevelopment of the site is complete, and the agency says safeguards are in place to ensure that promise is honored. The project, known as Tribute Rising, is being...

Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio INLIVIAN President and CEO A. Fulton Meachem Junior will retire later this month, ending more than a decade leading Charlotte’s public housing agency. Meachem became CEO in 2012 and oversaw the development of more than 1,600 mixed-income apartments. He also led the organization through its 2019...