Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News UNC Pembroke is partnering with five rural North Carolina school districts to address teacher shortages in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field. The public university is launching a grant program for aspiring STEM teachers, offering to cover their education costs in exchange for students promising...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Standing in an empty concrete drive that will one day house Canton’s new, flood-proof, right-sized sewer treatment plant, Governor Josh Stein announced on Thursday an additional $3.5 million in state funding coming to Canton and Haywood. Haywood County, and Canton in particularly, has seen a dozen...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise  The company that owns the majority of High Point Market showroom space this week announced several changes to its executive team. Andmore CEO Jon Pertchik will retire, and Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel Katie Potter, along with Chief Technology Officer Landon Williams, will step...

David Ford/WFDD Radio After a quarter century and $54 million, Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway is officially open. On a sunny and warm late morning, about an hour before the big ribbon-cutting ceremony for the multi-use path that surrounds the Gate City, people have already begun gathering at the Guilford Avenue entrance...

Trevon McGlone/The Sampson Independent Roseboro residents should not expect to see a rise in their property taxes for the 2026-27 fiscal year, however they are likely to see increases in how much they pay for sewer and garbage services, if the proposed budget is passed. As it currently stands, the...

Adam Wagner/WUNC News State economists expect North Carolina to collect $71.2 billion in revenue across the 2025 and 2026 fiscal years, according to an updated revenue forecast released Friday. That’s an increase of about $1.3 billion since a March projection and about $2.7 billion from the state’s certified budget. The...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Mecklenburg County Manager Michael Bryant made his official budget recommendation to the county board of commissioners Thursday, and the $2.6 billion spending plan keeps the property tax rate steady at 49.27 cents per $100 of assessed value. County officials have been warning about a storm of headwinds...

Dwayne Yancey/Cardinal News When surveyors from Virginia and North Carolina set out in 1728 to determine just where the border between them lay, the assignment seemed simple enough: Draw a straight line. The work turned out not to be so straightforward. They set out on March 27 but the weather...

NCN News As they continue to search for a permanent replacement, the State Board of Community Colleges have named an interim president.  The board has chosen Bill Carver to serve as the system’s interim president, effective July 1. The former Nash Community College president has served in the interim role...

Haylee Kennedy/WNCN Developers behind a major expansion in Raleigh’s North Hills district are continuing to share their vision of growth. “On one hand its really exciting because there’s continued growth, more opportunities for apartments for retail and for restaurants,” resident John Lenns said. That is exactly what Kane Realty has...

Judith Retana/WNCN Mahogany Newkirk accepted her Associate in Arts degree from Central Carolina Community College. Next week, she’ll receive her high school diploma. “It was like a surreal moment. I was proud of myself,” Newkirk said of her accomplishments. She is enrolled at Harnett County Early College, where she earned...

Dennis Bright/WBTW A North Carolina business hired to perform work for the town of Surfside Beach confirmed Thursday that it hasn’t received payment for work done in the town because of what the town has called a “potential cybersecurity incident” involving its email. “We are still owed money for work...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press After a series of amendments that North Carolina lawmakers have made over several years to the charter school review and approval process, stand-alone remote charter schools are on the rise. The Charter School Review Board approved several new institutions earlier this year that will be started...

Amy Diaz/WFDD The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is launching a bioindustrial manufacturing workforce training and research program next January. It’s called NC BioMISSION. The program is designed to prepare students to enter the growing field of biotechnology, which centers on converting organic materials into things like textiles, bioplastics...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News A Wake County principal is North Carolina’s newest principal of the year. Mariah Walker, principal of Wake Young Women’s Leadership Academy in the Wake school system, was named the winner Friday during a luncheon at Umstead Hotel in Cary. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction hosted...