Jonathan Bym/The Southern Pines Pilot In the middle of the hustle and bustle of Monday afternoon grocery shoppers, local and state political officials were circled up near the meat section commending the value of the Carlie C’s grocery store in Robbins. Carlie C’s moved into the former space of Lowes...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh A Carolina Hurricanes flag is hung on a vehicle outside Lenovo Center on April 18. Photo: NHL Images/NHLI via Getty Images The parking lots around Lenovo Center are packed again for a Stanley Cup playoff series, with thousands of cars paying $50 a spot and traffic on...

WRAL News Creedmoor Mayor Antwane Downey has asked to speak on Tuesday night before the Creedmoor Board of Commissioners nearly two months after he was charged with DWI, his fifth in seven years. Downey made the request last week by calling City Manager Mike Turner, according to an agenda for...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio The Alamance County Board of Commissioners approved a permit on Monday for a controversial landfill. The move allows property owner Kenneth Phillipie to establish a 99-acre landfill in the southern part of the county. Commissioners delayed a vote earlier this month to let those opposed to present...

Ashley Mahoney/Axios Charlotte Major League Baseball has its sights set on expansion, with potential new teams in the Eastern and Western parts of the country. Why it matters: North Carolina’s bid is strong, but competing markets may have clearer momentum, infrastructure and branding advantages. State of play: Nashville, the Triangle...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The potential of a moratorium on data center construction in Cumberland County increased on Monday when the Board of Commissioners voted 6-0, with one absent, to hold a public hearing on the idea on May 18. A vote on a moratorium could take place sometime after the hearing....

Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog When Frank Carey saw two men smoking methamphetamine outside the rear entrance of Spicer Greene Jewelers on March 27, he shooed them away and escorted four customers – a husband, wife and their 12-year-old twins – out the store’s front door on Patton Avenue. Moments later, one...

Jay Price/WUNC News A military spouse from Sanford was walking the halls of power last week to fight for better rules to keep low-performing — and in some cases predatory — colleges and universities from receiving federal funding. The Education Department is retooling its accreditation standards, which among other things...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro After Chatham County residents voiced privacy concerns for Pittsboro’s Flock Cameras, the town recently met to clarify its policies around the surveillance technology and data collection. The Flock Safety system aims to help local police identify suspects and locate missing persons by taking still images of a...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News   The tiny Haywood County Town of Clyde has joined a growing number of Western North Carolina communities by formalizing its opposition to data centers through a 12-month moratorium, but with limited jurisdiction beyond its borders and the possibility of preemption by Raleigh looming, Clyde knows...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News In a partially divided vote, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty have adopted two resolutions formalizing their concerns about the university’s School of Civic Life and Leadership. More informally known as SCiLL, university administrators market the degree program as an “interdisciplinary home” where professors use a civics-based education to teach...

Derick Lee/Education NC Boost is an accelerated college-to-career program designed to increase completion rates and move students into high-wage, high-demand jobs. Funded by a grant from Arnold Ventures and launched in the fall of 2025, Boost is a statewide replication of the CUNY ASAP model. The program began with eight...

Trista Talton/Education NC Kerri Allen acknowledged early on what was also obvious to her audience. “I do not need to tell anyone in here we have a really high density of leases,” the North Carolina Coastal Federation’s coastal management program director said. “In our public trust waters, when you have...

Hendersonville Lightning  HiViz have been in Henderson County for 8 years and will be moving some of their production to an existing building on Continuum Drive in the Town of Fletcher. The expansion will result in 33 new jobs, with an average annual wage of $68,788, and investment of $6,196,649....

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A structure that stands as a tribute to High Point’s furniture and hosiery heritage is once again for sale. The “World’s Largest Chest of Drawers” at 508 N. Hamilton St. this week was listed for sale by its owner, the Nido and Mariana Qubein Children’s...