Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online North Carolina’s attorney general is confident federal funding unceremoniously stripped from local governments earlier this year will be reinstated under a court ruling. “I think we’re going to win in court,” Jeff Jackson said Tuesday afternoon. “I think our argument is very strong.” Jackson had just...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted Mission Hospital’s request for a temporary stay of a lower court’s decision to grant 67 acute care beds to AdventHealth nearly three years ago. The order, delivered without comment, came just two days after attorneys for Mission Hospital filed...

Rose Hoban & Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News After a month away from Raleigh, state lawmakers returned to the capital on Tuesday — along with crowds of protesters and supporters — for a session aimed at overriding  vetoes issued by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein during the recent legislative session. The galleries...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County landed in the crosshairs of national social media ire this week after inflammatory videos went viral alleging that a Black truck driver hauling chipped flood debris to a private landfill in Canton was bullied by unhinged workers. The videos whipped up a maelstrom of...

Daniel Walton/Blue Ridge Public Radio A plan that would shift Asheville’s approach to citizen advisory boards drew concerns from both residents and City Council members during Tuesday’s council meeting. As previously reported by BPR, Asheville city government has been considering changes to 15 of these boards, which consist of local...

Paul Specht/WRAL News Obtaining and renewing North Carolina driver’s licenses may soon get easier. The North Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 109 to 7 to pass House Bill 245, which would allow North Carolinians to renew their driver’s licenses online more frequently and scrap a law requiring new...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Duke University and the Duke Law Journal are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, accused of violating Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to Secretary Linda McMahon’s department, the probe is “based on recent reporting alleging that...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press A former congressman will no longer seek an open U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina next year now that fellow Democrat Roy Cooper is running for the post. Tuesday’s announcement by ex-U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel came the day after Cooper, a former two-term governor, kicked...

Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline As Republicans in the General Assembly geared up to override several of his vetoes Tuesday, Governor Josh Stein made a plea: stay in town and pass a budget. Speaking to reporters alongside public servants and North Carolina residents impacted by funding shortfalls, Stein urged lawmakers to enact...

Mary Helen Moore/WUNC Radio Republicans — thanks to the help of a single House Democrat — voted to override Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of an immigration bill on Tuesday. The new law requires North Carolina sheriffs to work closer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid the federal government’s mass deportation...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press For the second year running, HCA is potentially not in compliance with its 2019 purchase agreement for the Asheville-based Mission Health hospital system. The repeated compliance issues raise questions about whether HCA is fulfilling its promise to maintain health care services for Western North Carolina...

Matt Lamb & Frank Daniels IV/The (Southern Pines) Pilot First Citizens Bank has filed a lawsuit against Southern Pines Brewing Co. owner Micah Niebauer and his wife, Patricia, for more than $2 million dollars in unpaid loans and credit card bills related to the company. Filed in Cumberland County last...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Summer is in full swing even as Charlotte loses its best defense against the heat: trees. The city of Charlotte is reevaluating its tree canopy goals, but while the city collects canopy data, developers keep bulldozing forests in residential areas. Claire Morissette started a petition to temporarily...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Nearly 40 years after the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service launched an innovative program to save the eastern red wolf from extinction, a nonprofit conservation group is challenging the agency’s prior decision to not upgrade to a more protective management designation, despite its outsized importance to...

WRAL News The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced Tuesday a first-of-its-kind partnership with a virtual therapy platform to expand services to teenagers in N.C. The department is partnering with Talkspace to provide free virtual mental health therapy to teenagers between the ages of 13 to...