Julian Berger/WFAE Radio On a busy stretch of North Tryon Street, cars speed past a small strip mall dominated by Latino-owned small businesses, including a taqueria, a bakery and a Mexican grocery store. But inside one of its storefronts, a laundromat, it’s quiet. Blanca Barbosa has worked at the laundromat...

Theresa Opeka/The Carolina Journal The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted unanimously on several items at its meeting Monday morning, including changes to voting for military and overseas voters. The changes stem from protests by Republican Justice Jefferson Griffin, who challenged Democratic candidate Justice Allison Riggs for a...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Famed Charlotte civil rights attorney James Ferguson has died at age 82. He was part of the legal team that won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in 1971 that required school districts to use busing to integrate. Ferguson and fellow attorney Julius Chambers founded North Carolina’s...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise One of High Point’s largest employers says it has expanded its local presence since being bought by another company. Internet service provider Lumos reported that it had 237 employees here at the end of 2024, making it the 24th largest employer in the city, according...

Robert Sullivan/The Salisbury Post    Ahead of a public hearing on the potential purchase of the city-owned Plaza, members of the development team headed by the Wallace family appeared in front of the Salisbury City Council on Tuesday and presented their preliminary plans and gave more information. The City Council’s only...

Will Hofmann/Asheville Citizen Times Black Mountain-based grocery store chain Ingles confirmed to Buncombe County staff that it plans to build a new Swannanoa location, according to a county commissioner, providing the clearest details about the future of the store that has caused confusion and frustration among residents. In a July...

Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News When torrents of muddy water filled the Trader Joe’s parking lot at Chapel Hill’s Eastgate Crossing this month, sending shopping carts clattering downstream, business owners were frustrated but not surprised. The shopping center, built beside Booker Creek, already sits inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s special flood hazard area...

Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro It has now been more than two weeks since Tropical Depression Chantal dropped a record amount of rain on the western Triangle, leaving six dead, hundreds displaced, numerous businesses devastated, and tens of millions of dollars in overall damage. In the last two weeks, we’ve seen countless...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The left has been rejuvenated in the first six months of the Trump administration, defying predictions that the Democratic Party would counter the MAGA movement by scrambling to the center. That’s best seen in the surprising New York City primary victory by Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio The U.S. Department of Education is expected to release some of the federal funds for public schools today that were previously frozen nationwide. On July 1, the Department withheld about $6.8 billion in federal funds to schools nationwide for review – with $165 million dollars in funding...

Rickie Houston/WilmingtonBiz The film industry in Wilmington has encountered a slowdown, and it’s uncertain when things will pick back up. While the state has its own film incentive, the slowdown has affected the number of projects being shot in the area, and more attractive incentives offered by other countries have...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Last month, Jackson became the second county in Western North Carolina to vote to exit its library system following local controversy over books with LGBTQ+ content. The move is the latest example of public libraries in the region being turned into political battlegrounds over such issues....

Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The state has the protocols in place for successful fisheries management, but North Carolina is missing the mark, recently released state-mandated research concludes. A top recommendation: Hire more fisheries scientists. And the head of the state body formed to coordinate scientific research for the legislature, in...

Frank Daniels IV/The (Southern Pines) Pilot It’s important to stay sharp through one’s years, especially if you run a knife-making company like Southern Pines-based Spartan Blades. After 30,000 blades, Curtis Iovito and Mark Carey, who founded the company in 2008 in an old mule-barn, continue to keep the company honed...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Imagine featureless plains of sand extending for as far as the eye can see. Now imagine them underwater. While a simplistic visualization, that’s basically what the ocean bottom off North Carolina’s coast looks like for roughly 40 miles until it hits the deep water and canyons...