The Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a dozen NASCAR teams to provide 11 years of financial data to the stock car series as part of an ongoing legal fight but sharply limited what they need to share. A day after hearing arguments from both sides, U.S. District...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that includes multiple controversial LGBTQ policies. Democrats objected to a GOP move to add the proposals to a popular House bill, prompting a heated fight over the Senate’s rules. The original version of House Bill 805 added new consent requirements...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer listened to her constituents’ testimonies, adding that recent cuts at the federal level will likely result in more lives lost during future natural disasters. Nine months after Hurricane Helene, western North Carolina is bracing for another hurricane season. Residents are speaking out about...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog On June 13, the University of North Carolina-Asheville confirmed a rumor that had circulated for months: It plans to build a soccer stadium on the land currently occupied by 45 acres of woods south of its main campus. The plan, developed in collaboration with the amateur soccer...

Evey Weisblat/CityView Yeadon Domes, an international manufacturer of air domes, will begin construction on its Fayetteville facility following the Fayetteville City Council’s approval on Monday of the company’s annexation and rezoning requests. The site is located on more than 14 acres off Airport Road, in the city’s prime industrial area....

Port City Daily Tim Markley, 61, died suddenly on June 21 while biking the Tour de Blueberry annual charity ride in Willard, North Carolina, according to an online obituary. WECT first reported on June 22 a cyclist died during the festival due to a medical issue, as confirmed by Burgaw...

Stan Choe, David McHugh & Elaine Kurtenbach/The Associated Press Oil prices are dropping further, and U.S. stocks are pulling close to their all-time high Tuesday on hopes that Israel’s war with Iran will not damage the global flow of crude, even if a tentative truce seemed to fray under fire...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio With legislators nowhere close to hashing out a state budget, the North Carolina Senate voted unanimously Monday to send the House an updated version of the most recent Helene relief package. The Senate scrapped much of House Bill 1012, rewriting it to bear many similarities to the...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Resolution plans to three pending lawsuits against the North Carolina State Board of Elections were adopted unanimously by the five-member panel Tuesday. The latest, naming the United States of America as a plaintiff and pursued by the Department of Justice, involved the Help America Vote Act,...

Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Several families on the brink of being unhoused gathered in uptown Charlotte on Monday, asking for more transparency about housing support intended to keep them sheltered. Some residents at the Baymont motel, in northeast Charlotte’s Sugar Creek area, have had to leave after a city-funded program ended....

WSOC News Queens University of Charlotte will become an active NCAA Division I member on July 1, after successfully completing a three-year reclassification process, officials stated Tuesday in a news release. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors’ decision grants Queens University access to Division I membership benefits, including full...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Wake schools Superintendent Robert Taylor plans to give an update on the district’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning Tuesday to the Wake County Board of Education. The district has struggled recently with more than 60 schools losing at least one day of school in the past two...

Blaire Mirmow/NC Health News On a bitter November morning in Newland, North Carolina, Ashton Johanson climbed aboard the purple dental bus parked outside High County Community Health’s medical clinic. Inside the cramped mobile unit, the floor heaters sputtered. Supplies were running low. The suction machine had been acting up for...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Every voting member on the New Hanover County Schools curriculum committee recommended reinstating a banned book’s availability for curriculum use on Monday. The committee took up the issue of “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,” a book outlining the “history of racist ideas” in America since 1415....

Chandler Inions/Salisbury Post There was a new addition to the Juneteenth lineup over the weekend in Salisbury — a guided trolley tour through the annals of the city’s rich Black heritage. Scattered around the city are numerous historical markers outlining various points in Salisbury’s history, including contextually significant Black accomplishments...