Heidi Perez-Moreno/Border Belt Independent James Granger says primary care doctors shouldn’t just focus on patients’ physical health. Their mental well-being is just as important. “Being able to do both, to understand both aspects, makes sense to us in being able to send that person on their journey,” said Granger, the...

Brian Mann/WUNC Radio The Trump administration has delayed and may cancel roughly $140 million in grants to fund fentanyl overdose response efforts, according to four staff members with close knowledge of the process at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The staffers shared detailed information with NPR about the...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press When Tammy Finch entered the Orange County charter school she co-founded to assess the damage from Tropical Depression Chantal, instead of seeing children in the halls, she saw a fish. The Expedition School was hit hard by Chantal earlier this month due to its location inside...

Paul B. Johnson/High Point Enterprise Construction crews at High Point University are nearing completion of two major projects while starting another one. Construction on the buildings for the Workman School of Dental Medicine and Kenneth F. Kahn School of Law is at least 90% complete. A grand opening ceremony for...

Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press Legacy Motor Club on Wednesday sued the broker who helped negotiate its purchase of a charter from Rick Ware Racing, accusing him of tortious interference for now trying to buy Ware’s NASCAR team. Legacy alleged in its filing in North Carolina Superior Court that T.J. Puchyr,...

Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio For Transylvania County property owners still needing help to remove Hurricane Helene storm debris, county officials have changed contractors and will start using a newly formed state program. The change comes after the federal funding that was being used to pay the Army Corps...

Christopher Rugaber & Josh Boak/The Associated Press Inflation rose last month to its highest level since February as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs push up the cost of everything from groceries and clothes to furniture and appliances. Consumer prices rose 2.7% in June from a year earlier, the Labor Department...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Monday he is joining 22 other state attorneys general and two governors in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education. On July 1, the Department of Education notified states that they would not be receiving certain K-12 federal funds...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Barns and roads collapsed. Miles of fencing and acres of corn lay flattened. Tobacco and soybean fields flooded. On Sunday, July 6, Tropical Depression Chantal left a scar on what was shaping up to be a banner season for Central North Carolina farms. The system...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger When the Charlotte campus of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine holds its first classes this week, it marks more than the arrival of the city’s first four-year medical school. It also brings to North Carolina a novel approach to training doctors...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News Public frustration boiled over at the July 1 Jackson County Board of Commissioners meeting, where speaker after speaker condemned the board’s recent decision to withdraw from the Fontana Regional Library system, urged reconsideration and asked for a public statement from commissioners. The remarks, delivered during the...

Evey Weisblat/CityView The Environmental Protection Agency canceled a research project that looked at new ways to detect “forever chemicals” in the air surrounding Chemours’ Fayetteville Works Plant, according to research participant and local clean water advocate Mike Watters. The study was led by UNC professor Jason Surratt. Surratt was unavailable...

Pritchard Strong/WRAL News An Apex man suffered a catastrophic leg injury when he says he stepped on an in-ground utility box. He says many others are in danger of the same thing happening to them. Matthew Privette told 5 On Your Side the accident happened when he was trimming hedges...

Sophia Walsh/Port City Daily Oysters may be the saving grace for Oak Island’s marsh shorelines as a new partnership between the town and the University of North Carolina Wilmington begins with the goal of testing nature-based solutions for coastal resilience. On July 8, the Oak Island Town Council unanimously approved...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Eight days after former Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts abruptly stepped down from his post, city officials have confirmed that the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is conducting an independent review into business transactions that occurred during Watts’ time in office. At a Wednesday, July...