Pat Welter & Brian Murphy/WRAL News A University of North Carolina assistant football coach was suspended and athletes in all ticketed sports, including football and men’s basketball, were sent a text message Tuesday to remind them that selling their complimentary tickets to games could impact their eligibility and violate NCAA...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer More than a month after the state cracked down on the flood debris landfill in Canton, mulch piles that combusted and began burning in June are still smoldering, and pollution is still running into the Pigeon River. Neighbors living around the landfill say conditions have improved...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise An effort that started in 2017 to redevelop a downtown block has been stalled for years. Downtown High Point has been unable to add to the four properties it acquired in the 700 block of N. Main Street for a possible residential or mixed-use project....

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog The competition for Buncombe County hospital expansion is intensifying as UNC Health and UNC Health Pardee will join AdventHealth, Mission Health and Novant Health in a quest for 129 beds under the state’s Certificate of Need process. UNC Health and UNC Health Pardee will seek to...

Pat Welter/WRAL News Bill Belichick sold his UNC football program as the “33rd NFL team.”  Through five games as a college football coach, the Tar Heels rank 128th in points per game out of the 136 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams. Pick a stat right now, it’s...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio As North Carolina faces challenges in recruiting and retaining teachers, a recent statewide survey of school districts shows the number of unfilled teaching jobs has dropped significantly this school year. But the report’s authors say the factors behind that decline are complicated. The North Carolina School Superintendents’...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio According to the complaint filed Monday, former Wake Forest University athletic trainer Bridget Sullivan and school officials mutually agreed to part ways, and was not fired. A former Wake Forest University athletic trainer is suing North Carolina Rep. Pat Harrigan for falsely claiming she was fired for...

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice Following a lengthy discussion at their Oct. 6 meeting, the Dare County Commissioners voted 6-1 to approve a request for a total of $400,000 in startup funding for the first two years of the Dare Housing Foundation. The Dare Housing Foundation is the organization to be...

Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/Education NC The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) presented new statewide literacy data to the State Board of Education during its meeting on Wednesday. Seventy percent of first graders were proficient at or above the benchmark for the DIBELS 8 (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills 8th Edition)...

WCHL Chapelboro In the twelfth installment of “Excellence Unveiled,” Frank Leibfarth, Royce Murray Distinguished term Professor of Chemistry, speaking on the importance of making plastic waste easier to reuse and removing PFAS from drinking water — and the work UNC’s chemistry department does to advance our understanding of the world...

Joy Crist/Coastal Review Online Cleanup efforts are continuing this week in Buxton and Rodanthe following the collapse of nine oceanfront homes last week — eight in Buxton and one in Rodanthe — as National Park Service crews, area organizations, and volunteers work to remove large volumes of debris scattered along...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily UNCW is extending its space reservation system to its spirit rocks next week after a conflict over the rock being painted with the late Charlie Kirk’s image last month. A new reservation system will go into affect on Monday, Oct. 6, at 8 a.m. At that...

David Ford/WFDD Radio On Monday, the Eastern Music Festival Board of Directors announced its vote to dissolve the organization. The nationally recognized summer educational and musical performance program was founded in 1962. The board’s decision followed nearly two years of negotiations. In a statement, it called the musicians’ union demand...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Two candidates have launched campaigns in the 2026 North Carolina House District 106 Democratic primary to oust seven-term incumbent Carla Cunningham, who’s become a lightning rod for her votes on immigration. Rev. Dr. Rodney Sadler and Vermanno Bowman both say Cunningham no longer represents the district. She...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press A group of silent protesters lined the entrance of the Cherokee Justice Center on Sept. 29 as Curtis Cochran made a brief appearance in tribal court for his ongoing sexual assault case. Many held homemade signs inscribed with messages such as “Hold Predators Accountable” and “No...