Evey Weisblat/City View When Starbucks barista Elijah Wittmeyer-Balthazar decided to start a union campaign at his Fayetteville store for the third time, he knew it wouldn’t be easy. The barista would have to contend with the usual challenges of union organizing: a fear of being retaliated against and the stigma...

Aaron Beard/The Associated Press North Carolina has taken an unusual route to establishing a succession plan for athletic director Bubba Cunningham, fittingly coming amid a new landscape of revenue sharing in college athletics. Cunningham will complete a 15th sports season as UNC’s AD before moving next summer into a new...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed cities and states to ban camping and sleeping in public. Since the landmark City of Grants Pass v. Johnson decision, over a hundred localities have passed ordinances banning homeless people from camping or sleeping in public, according...

Rose Hoban/NC Health News On June 9, word started to spread that the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had unilaterally ended the terms of all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (known commonly as ACIP), the committee within the Centers for...

Paul Specht & Laura Leslie/WRAL News Political parties typically benefit from having an incumbent candidate on the ballot, but U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis didn’t bring that advantage to the campaign trail in 2026, Republican insiders and political scientists say. Tillis, first elected in 2014 over former Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Significant state legislation is poised to reshape North Carolina’s hemp industry, directly impacting businesses and consumers. North Carolina’s largely unregulated hemp market, characterized by a proliferation of psychoactive products and inconsistent quality control, is at a turning point as state lawmakers debate House Bill 328. The...

Chris Burritt/Business North Carolina Guilford College averted the potential loss of its academic accreditation after raising more than $5 million in unrestricted cash by June 30. Next, supporters of the 188-year-old private Quaker College in Greensboro will learn about long-term planning aimed at ending years of financial struggles. “We are...

Savanna Tenenoff/Wilmington StarNews With more residents moving in and debris and waste constantly being dumped, the Brunswick County Landfill is slowly maxing out. The county’s construction and demolition material landfill at 172 Landfill Road NE, Bolivia, is nearing capacity and the county is preparing for eventual closure of the facility,...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro A celebrated local recording studio is on the market, seeking new ownership who aims to maintain its status as a back-to-nature haven for artists. Manifold Recording off Seaforth Road in Chatham County is for sale, as owners Michael and Amy Tiemann are moving to New Zealand. The...

Symone Graham/Charlotte Business Journal Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is preparing to close two branches in the Charlotte region as part of ongoing efforts to streamline its branch network. The San Francisco-based banking giant plans to close a location at 1018 Dallas-Cherryville Highway in Dallas, west of Charlotte. It...

Ashley Anderson/CBS 17 News With the end of a three-year agreement approaching at the end of November, UNC Health issued a statement Tuesday warning that coverage could be lost for Cigna members come December 1st. Cigna may be out of network later this year for any patients of UNC Health...

Mia McCarthy & Jordain Carney/Politico Hours after announcing his retirement, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis went to the Senate floor and slammed the GOP’s plans for drastic Medicaid cuts — warning Republicans they are about to “make a mistake on health care and betray a promise” if their sprawling domestic policy...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, has a far-left mayor, Brandon Johnson. New York City, the nation’s largest municipality, may be governed by self-described democratic socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary last week. But in the nation’s 14th-largest city, Charlotte, the center still holds. And...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press Miles of Pisgah National Forest trails near Old Fort in McDowell County, a cornerstone of its fledgling outdoor economy, remain inaccessible due to damage from torrential rain, high winds and landslides during Tropical Storm Helene. The storm damage, combined with changes in federal policy and the...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times The Guilford County Board of Commissioners met on Friday afternoon, June 27, to hold a very rare special closed session to discuss a personnel issue and, when the board came out of that closed session, the commissioners voted unanimously to accept the retirement notice of Guilford...