John Staton/Wilmington StarNews A TV show whose pilot episode shot in the Wilmington area in 2025 will be made into a full series, according to multiple stories by national entertainment industry publications. “RJ Decker” stars Canadian actor Scott Speedman (“Felicity,” “Grey’s Anatomy”) as “a disgraced newspaper photographer and ex-con who...

Maria Sullivan/The Daily Tar Heel UNC graduate student Sean Taylor spent a year of his doctoral program begging for relief. Following a series of unexpected surgeries and medical setbacks, Taylor asked the University for medical leave. The answer was a resounding no. Taylor began his doctoral degree in sociocultural anthropology...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning The city of Hendersonville is poised to send a $10 million road bond issue to taxpayers next March in hopes of expediting city street repaving, making handicapped curb ramps ADA-compliant and improving pedestrian and bicycle safety. The city council last week heard details of the proposed borrowing...

Andy Weber/Queen City News A congressional field hearing held in Charlotte Monday morning turned emotional and, at times, contentious as families of violent crime victims shared painful stories and lawmakers clashed over how to reduce crime in communities. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance held the...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News Efforts to prevent cuts that could significantly lower reimbursement to providers for services for North Carolinians on Medicaid stalled last week amid a three-way standoff between the state’s Senate, House of Representatives and governor. Lawmakers are at odds over dueling proposals to fully fund the state’s...

Josh Shaffer/The (Raleigh) News & Observer North Carolina “must fix its broken health care system” to prevent more violent attacks, Gov. Josh Stein said Monday, urging change two days after police charged an ex-Marine suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder with killing three people in a popular Southport bar. The governor...

Dedrick Russell/WBTV North Carolina Rep. Carla Cunningham, a Democrat, has represented District 106 in Mecklenburg County since 2013 — but she will have a Democratic challenger in 2026. Cunningham has recently made headlines for partnering with Republicans to override a bill that North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein vetoed. Cunningham also...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Black Mountain volunteer firefighter David Billstrom hails the fire chief on a handheld radio. “401 from 494 on VHF,” Billstrom said into the radio. It clicks as he releases the push-to-talk button. The number 401 is the fire chief’s callsign. He’s at Fire Station 4, so the...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio When Darlene Kurkendall closes her eyes, she imagines the walls of her house falling away. She sees the people in her community — friends, neighbors, family — swept out of sight by a horrendous heap of moving earth. Her household only just survived the landslides...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online An overwhelming majority of litter captured over the course of three years by in-stream traps set up in watersheds throughout the state was plastic waste, according to a recently published study. About 96% of litter North Carolina waterkeeper organizations and their volunteers removed from trash traps...

Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times A cloud enshrouds the operation as field workers pull bucket after bucket of sweet potatoes out of the dusty ground just off Webb Lake Road in Wilson County. “It is just extremely dry. We need rain,” Diane Vick of Vick Family Farms said while truckloads...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The UNCW Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution in support of a pedestrian bridge across S. College Road for North Carolina State Department of Transportation consideration. “UNC Wilmington has an opportunity to advance a long-discussed pedestrian bridge project across South College Road adjacent to campus,”...

Kyle Ingram/The (Raleigh) News & Observer The former director of the North Carolina Republican Party has a new role: election oversight for the state auditor’s office. Dallas Woodhouse, who led the state GOP from 2015 to 2019, will serve as the election liaison in Auditor Dave Boliek’s office. The newly...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times High Point University under the leadership of President Nido Qubein has been growing like kudzu, spreading across the city and drawing attention far outside of North Carolina’s borders. The latest sign of the university’s momentum is the announcement that the university has secured nearly $200 million...