WUNC & The Associated Press The Durham City Council has passed a resolution to make the city a “Fourth Amendment Workplace,” increasing protections for city workers against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and arrests. In a unanimous vote Tuesday, Durham City Council passed a resolution to make the North...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise Plans for an affordable housing project in south High Point have hit a roadblock after its developer missed out on critical public financing. Wynnefield Properties applied this year for a federal low-income-housing tax-credit award for a proposed 72-unit apartment complex at 3023 S. Main St.,...

Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald Sanford City Council is being asked to help bring a Target retail store to the city. Specifically, the city is being asked to fund approximately $4 million for infrastructure improvements for an estimated $64 million project. The site would be at the Riverbirch Corner Shopping...

Sofia DiStefano/Niner Times UNC Charlotte has once again broken its own enrollment record, welcoming 32,207 students for the fall 2025 semester. This milestone marks the University’s highest enrollment in its history, continuing a trend of steady growth over the past decade. The fall 2025 enrollment record shows an increase of...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Clyde’s governing board is planning to change its zoning ordinance to allow for “conditional” zoning, bringing the town’s zoning procedures in line with much of the rest of the state. Under conditional zoning, rezoned property could be approved for a specific use — say, a convenience...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A new report from UNCW details more removals and alterations leadership have made to comply with the UNC System’s 2024 equality policy, showing the university is continuing to dig deeper into ensuring compliance. After the UNC System implemented a policy banning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Helene washed out sewer pipes, overflowed septic systems, and washed water treatment plants into rivers all over. Much of this infrastructure was old, and extreme rainfall caused by climate change poses new risks. A new tranche of funding from the Environmental Protection Agency could help...

Deana Harley/CBS 17 News Some 80,000 voters in North Carolina will not need to update their voter registration to vote in the next federal election after months of back and forth between the State Board of Elections, the Department of Justice, and the Democratic National Committee. Under the Help America...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The roaster looks almost like an old steam locomotive, its polished steel drum gleaming under fluorescent light, a hulking American-made machine with heat coursing through its belly. Bins of beans — raw, pale, grassy — wait their turn to be transformed into fragrant, oily perfection. The...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The news about crops out of North Carolina farms is good this year: the corn is tall, the soybeans leafy, the cotton fluffy and the apples ripe. Compared to last year’s disastrous summer, when it seemed flooding was the only relief from extreme drought, this...

Mary Helen Moore/WUNC Radio Recreational flounder season is underway in North Carolina, allowing anglers a brief two-week window to catch and keep the popular fish. The state hopes to unlock more fishing opportunities next year by separating the season for southern flounder — which scientists believe has been overfished —...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Congress has cut federal funding for public media — an $800,000 loss for WFAE. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism. Charlotte Area Transit System interim CEO Brent Cagle said Wednesday that fare enforcement on...

Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina’s agriculture commissioner last week started sending checks to farmers who were affected by natural disasters like Hurricane Helene. The payments are part of a $478 million dollar allocation from a statewide Helene-relief bill. The state received more than 8,000 applications for aid...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Residents expressed their concerns to the New Hanover County commissioners this week, urging them to hold Novant Health accountable for patient care and safety standards. About 30 demonstrators gathered outside of the New Hanover County commissioner meeting on Sept. 2 to demand commissioners address poor patient...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The state has issued another environmental violation to the debris landfill in Canton for discharging pollutants into a local river — this time from the solid waste division of the Department of Environmental Quality. This violation was the sixth that Two Banks Development’s landfill received in...