Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro As UNC is working to adjust its admissions approach to expand undergraduate student enrollment, it also is planning on revamping its on-campus housing to accommodate more people. The first step was already approved in May, as the university will build its first new dorm on campus in...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Supporters of a 1-cent sales tax increase for transportation packed the Government Center Wednesday night. Mecklenburg Commissioners voted 8-1 Wednesday night to place a 1-cent sales tax increase on this November’s ballot, setting the stage for a three-month campaign that will determine the future of the region’s...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Ocracoke Island is facing major erosion around the busy ferry terminal that connects it to Hatteras. But proposals to move the ferry docks are facing opposition. Drivers waiting on the ferry from Ocracoke to Hatteras can’t line up in the original stacking lanes anymore, because the asphalt...

Trey Nemec/CityView Rollease Acmeda, a manufacturer and distributor of window coverings, has officially opened a new warehouse site in Hope Mills. A crowd of about 30 community leaders, local officials and company employees gathered at the facility located at 103 Tom Starling Road on Monday afternoon to celebrate its grand...

Carly Haynes/WRAL News A Netflix promotional campaign with a popular restaurant is getting the attention of customers, but for reasons outside of the television show. On Wednesday afternoon, customers walked into Wendy’s on North Harrison Avenue in Cary and saw what appeared to be a noose hanging from the ceiling...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Some media outlets are reporting that the State Bureau of Investigation is poised to launch a criminal probe into Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. According to Chad Flowers, an SBI spokesperson, the department is not investigating the school district right now. He says Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill...

Maura Carey/The Associated Press A North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the 1983 N.C. State men’s basketball team, shutting down the national championship team’s request for name, image and likeness compensation. The team was known as the “Cardiac Pack” for a series of close, nail-biting victories, including...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press North Carolina just made it much harder to pass expensive regulations. HB 402, now law after legislators overrode a veto from Gov. Josh Stein, adds major hurdles for new and existing rules — including those that would limit PFAS and other toxic chemicals in drinking...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Mecklenburg County Commissioners decided in closed session Wednesday to end all negotiations with The Peebles Corporation, which was hired nine years ago to redevelop a big chunk of uptown into a new project called Brooklyn Village. The company hasn’t built a single apartment since the county picked...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog Asheville’s Tree City USA distinction, which it held for nearly 45 years, has lapsed. Eric North, a program manager for the Arbor Day Foundation, which administers the Tree City program, said in an email Asheville began its application last year but, like some other communities preoccupied by...

The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Another milestone in the I-40 repair job in the Pigeon River Gorge: the N.C. Department of Transportation has officially received permits to mine stone from the nearby Pisgah National Forest. Rock will be mined from the national forest on the opposite side of the river as the...

Laura Leslie & Brian Murphy/WRAL News Basketball games — even in the Atlantic Coast Conference — can’t be as difficult as navigating North Carolina’s Division of Motor Vehicles to get a new driver’s license. NC State men’s basketball assistant coach Brandon Chambers arrived at the Cary office at 5:45 a.m....

The Associated Press The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines...

Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio Henderson County is in the hole about $20 million, waiting for reimbursements from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Hurricane Helene-related debris removal. Commissioners discussed the issue at a Monday night meeting. The conversation came as state officials last week urged lawmakers to push...

Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog If Steve Dunning’s Okie Dokies Smokehouse in Swannanoa appeared on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, his lender would have almost certainly required flood insurance as a condition of the mortgage that he and his wife, Jody, took out on the property in 2006. But Buncombe...