Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press When Tropical Depression Chantal struck Moore County in early July, the deluge of rain took out a food bank, a golf course, a cemetery, a shopping center, hiking trails, homes and major roads. The storm exposed the vulnerability of Moore County’s aging infrastructure in the...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio Burlington City Manager Craig Honeycutt is retiring at the end of the year. Honeycutt has been in the role since 2022, and before that was briefly assistant city manager. “Burlington has been a joy to work for – from a city council that collaborates and fully supports...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily After years of waiting for effective water treatment against PFAS contamination, Brunswick County is now in a legal battle with its contractor for a water treatment expansion project facing repeated delays. Brunswick County filed a lawsuit against Oscar Renda Contracting, Inc. for breach of contract and...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News A blistering letter signed by four Democratic candidates for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District is raising questions about party neutrality in primaries, calling the party’s decision to include only one congressional candidate — Jamie Ager — as the keynote speaker at the NC-11 Democratic...

Pat Kimbrough/The (High Point) Enterprise A bank with a significant High Point presence says its planned merger with another institution won’t hamper its longtime philanthropic housing initiative in the city. Pinnacle Financial Partners in recent years has funded construction of more than 40 single-family houses in distressed core city neighborhoods....

Chris Lovingood/WRAL News More than 1.5 million North Carolinians could lose food and medical assistance when new limits on SNAP and Medicaid go into effect. That’s why Durham County’s leadership wanted an update Monday on the scope of the issue at the county level. A representative with Durham County’s Department...

Shalina Chatlani/NC Health News Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Bonner has been working 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past four years, while attending and paying for college to finish her prerequisites for medical school. But now that President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending law bars...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press  Employees at Asheville’s Mission Hospital say they aren’t shocked to hear that parent company HCA is potentially in noncompliance with its purchase agreement of the Mission Health hospital group for the second year in a row. Neither are the region’s elected officials. The company, however,...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County has confirmed its 13th case of pertussis, or whooping cough, since early July, meaning infections are on the rise with just two weeks before students go back to school. While it’s typical to see kids getting sick about three weeks into the school year,...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News   A blistering letter signed by four Democratic candidates for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District is raising questions about party neutrality in primaries, calling the party’s decision to include only one congressional candidate — Jamie Ager — as the keynote speaker at the NC-11...

Ali Swenson & Gary Fields/The Associated Press The requests have come in letters, emails and phone calls. The specifics vary, but the target is consistent: The U.S. Department of Justice is ramping up an effort to get voter data and other election information from the states. Over the past three...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The University of North Carolina Wilmington is continuing its overflow housing practice in the upcoming school year as it expects to enroll around 275 students more than beds available on campus. This represents around 10% of the incoming freshmen class. As customary, freshmen are required to...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A proposal to strengthen and expand building rules in Leland’s flood zone will not be indefinitely sidelined, proponents of the changes say. “I’m not going to let this die,” said Leland Councilmember Veronica Carter. “I will bring this up at every single meeting until we get...

Richard Craver/The (Greensboro) News & Record The board of directors of Wells Fargo & Co. are rewarding — both monetarily and by promotion — the work of chief executive Charlie Scharf in guiding the bank out of nearly nine years of regulatory purgatory. On Thursday, the board notified shareholders and...

Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice Following a July 30 announcement from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) that it was, “rescinding all designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS),” the fate of future domestic wind energy development is uncertain. The BOEM release references a Presidential...