Amy McCraw/Henndersonville Lightning A Henderson County jury likely made state history when it returned a $101 million verdict against the Hajoca Corp. last week,  attorneys representing plaintiffs in the case said in interviews with the Lightning. The lawsuit, which involved a wall that collapsed on four construction workers at the...

Deana Harley/WNCN Court documents are shedding light on the legal battle that led up to a woman allegedly leaving the Wake County Courthouse on Friday, getting a gun, and shooting two attorneys. Gwendolyn White is due in court on Tuesday, charged with attempted murder. It all dates back to 2021,...

Felicia Sonmez/BPR News There’s something similar to a small city of construction workers and heavy machinery along Interstate 40 near the Tennessee border. It’s part of a $2 billion effort to repair the highway, which was partially washed into the Pigeon River by Hurricane Helene. North Carolina Department of Transportation...

Ferrel Guillory/Education NC Rachel Canter wants North Carolina legislators and education policymakers to know that Mississippi’s two-decade vault to the top in fourth grade test scores did not result solely from a literacy initiative with phonics at its core. “Our story is bigger than literacy,’’ she said Monday in a...

Bradley George/WUNC News Benson town manager Dane Rideout has resigned, as the Johnston County town continues to struggle with a financial crisis. Mayor Max Raynor read Rideout’s resignation letter during a town commission meeting Thursday night. “It has become clear that I am unable to overcome institutional resistance to the...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Bill Franklin marched up to the sand crossover pushed up and over the rusty-colored pipe carrying sand from Carolina Beach Inlet to near the southern end of Kure Beach and paused. “It’s nice to see the wide beach back,” said the Kentucky tourist and frequent visitor...

Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville town council rejected a property tax increase for the coming year, and instead directed each department to find cuts to make up the difference. Council members were largely mum last week when presented with a draft budget calling for a 2 cent property tax hike....

David Beasley/The Center Square Two years ago, 13 North Carolina students suffered cardiac arrest while at school, one of whom died. Now, two state lawmakers want to ensure that all public schools – roughly 2,500 in total – stock defibrillators. The legislation, which has already passed the House, was sponsored...

9. Dare Ed Board to consider banning e-bike use on school property Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice At their meeting on Tuesday, May 26, the Policy Review Committee of Dare County Board of Education will review a proposal for a new policy that would ban the operation of e-bikes on school...

Lorelei Roberts/Watauga Democrat Watauga County’s Cattlemen’s Association members spent a recent Saturday helping a cattle farmer in his 80s rebuild his fence that was destroyed in Hurricane Helene. “Every community member just wants to make sure that their community is taken care of and try to help where they can,”...

Cierra Noffke/WilmingtonBiz UNC System’s Board of Governors granted UNCW permission to begin the planning process for its proposed medical school. The motion passed with unanimous support at the full Board of Governors meeting today. The medical school was proposed in April at a Board of Governors Committee on Educational Planning,...

Ashley Fredde/NC Health News State lawmakers are proposing a bill they say would reduce administrative burden and redundancy for inspections in adult care homes, the places that manage the care for some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. “Adult care homes” have a specific designation in North Carolina. They’re places...

Daniel Walton/BPR News Buncombe County plans to ask its voters for permission to take on $70 million in new debt this November. At Tuesday night’s meeting, the Board of Commissioners began the legal process for placing two bond referenda on the general election ballot. Two documents unanimously approved by the...

Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer Maggie Valley has been bleeding $10,000 a month to pump sewage across Jonathan Creek to the sewer plant following Helene damage to a critical line. That broken line — one of the last large-scale Hurricane Helene recovery projects for Maggie Valley — will soon be in...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News  NC Central was the only institution that didn’t meet the System’s financial health threshold. Chancellor Karrie Dixon said long overdue state enrollment funding is key to restoring the HBCU’s finances. Public university chancellors are still making a case for state enrollment funding as the General Assembly deliberates...