Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Plans to place the Canton Police Department in one of the area’s historic buildings are continuing to move forward, though the demands of building on the National Register of Historic Places will likely mean officers won’t move in until 2027. Construction on the nearly $5 million...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press A series of four videos over nearly four weeks have shown University of North Carolina System employees professing the continuation of DEI initiatives in their respective universities despite the system’s policies against such programs, the latest being out of UNC Wilmington. But undercover reporters and freelancers...

Brian Murphy/WRAL News Football and men’s basketball players at North Carolina will receive the majority of the school’s $20.5 million in revenue sharing beginning next month. Women’s basketball and baseball players will receive some revenue sharing, too, the school’s athletics department announced Monday in a letter from athletics director Bubba...

Frank Daniels IV/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Two of Southern Pines’ most historic hotels are entering a new chapter through a joint venture that pairs their local owners and one of the golf industry’s leading hospitality companies. Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club, which opened in 1921, and Pine Needles Lodge...

Ryan Dezember & Jennifer Hiller/The Wall Street Journal New York intends to build a large nuclear-power facility, the first major new U.S. plant undertaken in more than 15 years and a big test of President Trump’s promise to expedite permitting for such projects. Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an interview...

Anne Blythe/NC Health News A legislative proposal put forward by the state Senate that would open the door for hedge funds and private equity firms to acquire, open and operate dental practices not run by licensed dentists in North Carolina has hit a hurdle in the state House of Representatives....

The Associated Press The Green Party will remain an official party in North Carolina, able to field candidates statewide through the 2028 elections, even though their 2024 nominees for governor and president failed to get the votes required by state law. The Republican-led State Board of Elections voted 3-2 on...

Outer Banks Voice Following passage in the NC Senate last week, a bill with an amendment calling for a ban on shrimp trawling in the state’s inland waters and within a half mile of the Atlantic shoreline is expected to be voted by the House on Tuesday, June 24. The...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News  Finally face to face amid a simmering standoff over library governance and subjectively inappropriate material in a regional library system that’s served locals for more than 80 years, Jackson County commissioners spent nearly three hours in a joint meeting with the Fontana Regional Library Board of...

Kristen Blair/Education NC Seven charter schools have secured final approval from the state’s Charter Schools Review Board to open for the 2025-26 school year, with the CSRB clearing the new schools to open at its monthly meeting on Monday, June 9. The seven schools are members of this year’s Ready...

Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat In a major shift for local emergency services, Watauga County announced that it will transition from a privately contracted ambulance provider to a fully county-operated emergency medical service. The Watauga County Board of Commissioners approved a purchase of Watauga Medics, Inc. for $1.7 million at its...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A rockslide and flooding struck Interstate 40 when heavy rain pelted the Pigeon River Gorge on Wednesday, once again closing the interstate. The I-40 washout occurred just over the state line from Haywood County in Tennessee. Luckily, transportation officials expect a much quicker fix than the...

Jack Hagel & Paul Specht/WRAL News Dan Forest’s term as North Carolina lieutenant governor ended like an episode of “This Old House.” An architect by trade, Forest took great pride in raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in private donations to painstakingly renovate and refurnish the 140-year-old Hawkins-Hartness House, which...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise The announcement last week that the region has recruited the lucrative JetZero aircraft manufacturing project carries far-reaching implications beyond the borders of the development. JetZero plans a factory that itself would employ more than 14,000 workers and carry an investment of $4.7 billion over...

Lucille Sherman/Axios Raleigh North Carolina House Rules Chairman Rep. John Bell, who is also the president of a hemp manufacturing and distribution company, has been the point person in his chamber on several proposed bills making their way through the legislature that could impact his company. He also has the...