Andrew R. Jones & Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog A former University of North Carolina Asheville research assistant alleged in a lawsuit this year that the university dismissed him from his job after he raised concerns about research misconduct to his bosses and a top school official. Aidan Settman, a 24-year-old UNCA...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio The Guilford County District Attorney has released new information about her decision not to pursue a full state investigation into the actions of Greensboro’s former City Attorney Chuck Watts. DA Avery Crump says she met with State Bureau of Investigation agents late last week to review misconduct...

Brooks Stevenson/WFAE Radio Gov. Josh Stein visited Charlotte on Wednesday to tour Coca-Cola Consolidated’s new job training program. Stein met with students and other employees in the company’s new apprenticeship program, which trains young people for high-demand jobs. Those include manufacturing, equipment repair, and logistics. Gov. Stein says the program...

Taiyana Hill/WRAL News Rocky Mount secured a $3 million grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to introduce a commuter bus service aimed to assist with easier travel to Raleigh. The city is located on the U.S. Highway 64 corridor of Interstate 95—midway between the Triangle and the...

Robert Sullivan/The Salisbury Post Salisbury announced Tuesday that it would be purchasing the historic Salisbury Depot from the Historic Salisbury Foundation for approximately $3.5 million. The purchase is an important step in a trio of projects, which include connection of rail service to Asheville, a second platform for the railroad...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review A federal court decision issued Wednesday blocks the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from using a potentially harmful algaecide at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, a compound that environmental groups argued would endanger the waterfowl the refuge is supposed to protect. Refuge officials had issued a notification in...

Monica Casey/WRAL News A North Carolina couple told WRAL News their reservation was canceled at a local hotel because they are Durham residents. Gwendolyn and Ira Montague live in north Durham, and their home of 50 years was severely damaged in flooding from Chantal. The retired couple stayed at a...

Kristen Richardson-Frick, Mebane Rash & Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC In 2012, The Duke Endowment partnered with one rural church to test a program to combat summer learning loss. Thirteen years later, the initiative that has grown from that investment includes several funders who work together with statewide nonprofit supporters and...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Imagine a courtroom that’s not a courtroom and a judge who doesn’t look like a judge. Imagine a less adversarial system where social workers, court officials, community members and others work with families to help them address the issues that led to their children being taken...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The county shaved off its Workforce Housing Advisory Committee from its roster Monday after some commissioners found it to be a moot point. The committee chair will push for reconsideration, hoping to gain back the support of at least one commissioner, despite the vote to move...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer When modern technology fails in the face of a disaster, sometimes it’s best to take a more proven — if slightly older — approach. And few things are as tried and tested as sending someone to the center of town to yell out news as loud...

Stella Mackler/WFAE Radio Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $50 million in grants to 140 small and midsized farms across the country. This year the grant program — meant to help farmers hire and retain workers — was frozen by the Trump administration. Hart-T Tree Farm was one...

Aaron Beard/The Associated Press Jim Phillips stood in the same spot Tuesday morning that he did exactly one year earlier as he officially opened the Atlantic Coast Conference’s preseason football media days. Only now, the message and tone is far different. The league has successfully quelled a rebellion in the...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News  Mountaineer Little League Baseball has been around since the 1970s, but like everything else, once Hurricane Helene hit, its immediate future was uncertain. The program, which allows kids from the western part of Haywood County to partake in America’s pastime, relies on the use of five...

Jill Doss-Raines/The High Point Enterprise Davidson County’s first outpatient mental health facility opened Tuesday as part of a $6 million new Novant Health Wellness and Education center at Thomasville Medical Center. Novant Health administration and staff, Thomasville city officials, hospital foundation members and community members gathered for the ribbon cutting...