Justin Laidlaw/Indy Week Durham city council got an update last week on the possible routes, funding, and implementation for a Central Durham Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)  project. Since announcing the project in July, the transportation department has updated the proposal with suggestions for alternative routes around Ninth Street on the...

Michael Copley/WUNC Radio Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone more than 450 acres in the Indianapolis suburb, and residents weren’t having it. Many were...

Kristen Johnson/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Durham’s municipal election took a tense turn after a recent candidate hung “Wanted” posters in the city featuring the faces of the mayor and mayor pro tem. On Sunday afternoon, Mayor Pro Tem Mark-Anthony Middleton, running for re-election in Ward 2, took to his...

Analisa Sorrells Archer/Education NC This National Farm to School Month, students across North Carolina will eat locally grown products in school meals, engage in educational activities about agriculture and nutrition, and take part in school gardening experiences. According to the 2023 USDA Farm to School Census, 59% of school nutrition...

Stella Mackler/WFAE Radio North Carolina is home to more than 150,000 farmworkers — but only one in five have healthcare. Cirlo Castillo is one of them. Castillo is in the middle of his 24th season at Hart-T-Tree Farms near the Virginia border. As farm manager, he looks after the trees...

Lauren Jessop/The Center Square Surging electricity demand, an aging grid, and generation sources retiring faster than new ones can be built have become some of the nation’s most pressing challenges. Although experts agree the solutions are complex, states, frustrated at the lack of progress, are uniting to demand change. Except,...

Daneen Khan/The Daily Tar Heel The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence. SILS and SDSS faculty were informed of the decision on Wednesday at two independent school meetings before it...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Fayetteville City Council Member Lynne Greene is considering whether to file a complaint with the police that her former opponent in this year’s municipal election, Enrique “Ranger Rick” Murillo, levied a threat against her on Wednesday morning. The alleged threat was in a Facebook post, which Greene said...

Morgan Casey/CityView Cuts to North Carolina’s Medicaid reimbursement rates could cost Cape Fear Valley Health millions of dollars in revdenue this year and decrease access to care for thousands of patients, according to the health system’s leaders. The cuts, which range between 3% and 10%, went into effect on Oct....

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Two weeks ago, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Susan Rodriguez McDowell hosted a forum in Steele Creek about the multi-billion-dollar transportation plan on the November ballot. Interim CATS Chief Executive Brent Cagle was on the panel, along with McDowell, Matthews Commissioner Renee Garner, eastside leader Greg Asciutto and former...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger Jacqueline Stowe has seen big promises come and go. The 76-year-old grew up in Brooklyn, a thriving Black community just outside uptown Charlotte that in the 1960s was bulldozed for urban renewal. City leaders told residents they would rebuild and that families...

Mebane Rash/Education NC As of Oct. 6, 2025, the total number of students receiving vouchers in North Carolina is 98,917, according to new data, up from 80,472 at the end of 2024-25. Of the 2025-26 recipients, 65,491 are students who renewed their voucher. That means almost 15,000 students who had...

Richard Stradling/The (Raleigh) News & Observer WakeMed will soon break ground on a new campus in Garner that will put two new hospitals under one roof. One will be a 45-bed acute care hospital, where people will be treated for heart attacks, broken bones and other physical conditions. The other...

WFAE Radio LendingTree CEO Doug Lebda died Sunday in an ATV accident. The Charlotte-based company announced his death Monday morning. Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996, and it has since grown into one of Charlotte’s most prominent homegrown financial companies. Scott Peyree, who has been LendingTree’s president and chief operating officer,...

Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer An unexpected hit to the town’s budget has Maggie Valley aldermen debating whether to freeze putting a new police officer on the streets just months after the board voted to add the additional position. Town Manager Vicki Best told alderman Tuesday morning during an agenda setting...