Richard Craver/The (Greensboro) News & Record Anyone questioning why Graham Bennett chose to become Piedmont Triad Airport Authority’s chairman at 72 only needs to look at his face when he answers. Between the sparkle in his eyes, mischievously raised eyebrows and a warm, confident smile, Bennett demonstrates how pleased he...

Stephanie Armor/KFF Health News Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game. Days later, he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. He had eaten tainted salad,...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Summerfield has a problem. It’s trying to keep its town charter and, in that attempt to do so, town leaders are proposing nearly doubling the town’s tax rate and adding new services. The new proposed budget for fiscal 2025-2026 calls for raising the property tax rate...

Shea Carver/Port City Daily After a façade and roof collapse in the last year-and-half in downtown Wilmington brought about public safety concerns, county staff, at the behest of commissioners, researched a program to require periodic inspections of buildings 100 years or older. However, on Thursday area leaders decided against moving...

Dr. Céline Gounder/MSN The Trump administration has moved to end funding for a broad swath of HIV vaccine research, saying current approaches are enough to counter the virus, multiple scientists and federal health officials say. Notifications that the funding would not be extended were relayed Friday to researchers, who were...

Elena Giordano/Politico Donald Trump’s war on some of America’s most iconic colleges is a major opportunity for European academia and research. Now the EU is under pressure to seize it. University professors and research center directors across the continent see silver linings in the U.S. president’s crackdown on American higher...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina officials on Wednesday downgraded anticipated state revenue collections compared to their recent forecast, largely over rising economic uncertainty and the risks of a U.S. recession. The adjustments agreed upon by economists working in Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s budget office and at the General...

Emily Thomas/Education NC The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) announced a new rural advanced manufacturing toolkit featuring “innovative partnership models that are meeting the evolving workforce demands of the state’s advanced manufacturing sector, particularly in rural regions,” according to a recent press release. The new resource was created by...

Rachel Roubein & Lena H. Sun/The Washington Post  The Department of Health and Human Services is pulling millions of dollars it had committed to give Moderna to aid the effort to develop a vaccine to combat the bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday. Under President Joe Biden, HHS...

Mary Helen Moore/WUNC Radio For the first time, North Carolina’s commercial and recreational fishing industries are set to split the southern flounder catch 50-50 this year. That decision was made by the Marine Fisheries Commission last week in a 6-3 vote. After administrative approval, it will take effect in August....

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News The possibility of North Carolinians who depend on Medicaid being subject to a work requirement to keep their coverage has grown more plausible with the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a GOP-backed budget bill that includes the measure. Legislation approved by the U.S. House on...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer How is Haywood’s vital tourism economy faring in the wake of Helene? It’s a tricky question to answer, with only one full season — and winter at that — behind us. It’s made all the more difficult by the fact that a key metric to measure...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Just beyond a wooded area that marks Paws Place Dog Rescue’s east-facing property line, signs of neighbors to come dot the horizon. Rooftops of two-story houses in various stages of construction peek over treetops in a new development cropping up on one side of the rescue’s...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio The family of a male student at Ardrey Kell High School has filed a lawsuit against a female student, her family, and community activists who claimed the teen in March attacked her in a hate crime because she is Muslim. The lawsuit names both students, but WFAE...

Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald District Court Judge Jason P. Kimball was censured Friday, May 23, by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The censure for being drunk on a working day, disrespecting a state trooper and other factors follows a recommendation by the Judicial Standards Commission. Kimball’s censure was based...