Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press North Carolina House Rep. Renée Price, D-Orange, used to go home feeling alone after a day in the Republican-run legislature. As a Democrat in a purple state, she sometimes felt like her comparably progressive ideas stranded her on an island by herself, even among members of...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog A quadriplegic patient who remained at Mission Hospital for nearly four years despite the hospital suing him and his parents for his refusal to leave, is receiving care at a Virginia nursing and rehabilitation facility. Eric Penland was transported from Mission in late May following a...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Jamestown resident Ashley Robinson’s third child arrived three months early. A micro-preemie, Milo weighed just 1 pound, 2.7 ounces, smaller than an average woman’s shoe. At 3 weeks old, he had his first surgery. Since then, he’s had at least seven others, including for repairs to...

Kristen Blair/Education NC Lindsay Phillips, a kindergarten teacher at Mountain Island Charter School (MICS) in Mount Holly, is the 2025 N.C. Charter School Teacher of the Year. A veteran teacher, she has 20 years of experience in the classroom, having worked for 10 years in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System and...

Salisbury Post According to a release from her campaign, Alysa Kassay announced she will be running for the U.S. House representing North Carolina’s 6th District earlier this week, pledging a “results-driven, people-first approach focused on the middle class and local communities” across the Piedmont Triad and throughout the congressional district....

Chase Pellegrini de Paur/IndyWeek Durham labor groups looking to improve wages, housing affordability, and workers’ rights have set their sights on Duke University, the city’s largest employer and private landowner. With local elections getting underway, organizers have found willing partners in the menagerie of Durham council candidates, all of whom...

Port City Daily A candidate pool of eight has dropped to seven for three open seats on Wilmington City Council. Sean Guerrero, a two-decade resident of Wilmington, informed Port City Daily he was rescinding his candidacy. “Due to unforeseen circumstances, I’m withdrawing my campaign for city council,” he wrote in...

Anne Blythe/NC Health News In an effort to tamp down confusion and frustration about who can and can’t get a COVID vaccine, and whether they have to have a health care provider’s prescription, state health director Larry Greenblatt has issued orders making access to the new boosters easier. Anyone 65...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Many people in the southeastern corner of North Carolina could be on a faster path to clean drinking water, following an updated well-testing plan from the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. This week NCDEQ required Chemours to expand its testing under a court-enforceable 2019 consent order....

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The field for one of North Carolina’s most closely watched congressional races grew again this week with the entry of Dr. Richard Hudspeth, a physician with deep ties to the region who says his experience caring for mountain families gives him a unique perspective on what...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press State officials have intervened yet again at Bertie County’s Department of Social Services, making a dramatic gesture by removing power from the current DSS director and assuming direct control of the county’s child welfare services. Despite being stripped of her authority, Bertie County DSS Director Daphine...

Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio On a clear August morning, Katie Whitehead cautiously wades through prickly bushes and knee-high grass to find a thin tree that’s been marked by a pink ribbon. “This may be the corner of the property,” she said, looking around slowly. The property refers to her 169 acre...

Kristen Blair/Education NC In a 6-5 vote, the North Carolina Charter Schools Review Board (CSRB) narrowly approved an amendment allowing TMSA Triangle, a Wake County charter school, to expand across county lines and open a K-8 sub-campus in Durham. It’s a novel approach to charter expansion that required no application....

The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Western Carolina University has posted a record retention rate this school year for returning freshmen. The retention rate among last year’s freshmen class returning to WCU as sophomores rose to a record 81.6% as compared to 79.1% last year. “The record retention rate for last year’s entering...

JD Franklin III/WXII News The Town of Summerfield has completed its internal investigation into alleged wrongdoing by former employees. Officials said they delivered the results of the investigation to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office on Sept. 11. This was after a Guilford County Superior Court order came, authorizing its release....