Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The public has a little more than a month to provide feedback before it’s decided whether the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge will be replaced with a 65-foot movable span bridge or 135-foot fixed bridge. However, the City of Wilmington is forging its own plan after determining...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Five days a week, John Richards drives the roughly 15-minute commute from his rural Beaufort County home to the Bayview Ferry Terminal or, as he calls it, the “working man’s ferry.” The half-hour ferry ride across the Pamlico River to Aurora shaves off about 45 minutes...

Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer One Waynesville councilmember is seeking a legal opinion on what the town can do to better regulate the ever-growing list of new multi-family developments being proposed. Councilmember Jon Feichter asked Town Attorney Martha Bradley to draft a narrow legal opinion on what options Waynesville has to...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog In August, UNC Health Pardee celebrated the opening of a 23-bed adolescent mental health unit. Dozens of people crowded into the future dayroom; standing against walls painted carefully chosen tones of soothing blue and green and sitting in chairs that are too heavy to lift, or throw....

Alex Perri/Smoky Mountain News Jackson County Commissioners voted 4-1 to shoot down a $105 million school bond referendum at a Sept. 1 meeting, leaving county schools in the lurch for funding millions of dollars of capital improvement projects across the district. Now, tough decisions must be made regarding what projects...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Film incentives, the New Hanover Community Endowment and funding for transportation and infrastructure projects, such as the replacement of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, proved hot topics for local and state-level candidates during the Greater Wilmington Business Journal’s Power Breakfast on Thursday. The event brought together candidates vying...

Molly Steur/Education NC The State Board of Education convened for its monthly meeting this week, where the Board heard a presentation on 2025-26 school accountability data, which showed, among other things, that the statewide graduation rate increased a full percentage point to 88.8% — the highest graduation rate in North...

Bill Moss & Amy B. McCraw/Hendersonville Lightning Given the early freezes, late frosts, windstorms, hurricanes and floods that have battered Henderson County’s apple crop over the years, it’s a rare season when growers are pleased with the harvest. “It’s not perfect, but it’s probably the best situation we’ve had in...

Shaun Gallagher, Brian Murphy & Jack Hagel/WRAL News Michael Lombardi, who resigned Thursday as the general manager of the University of North Carolina’s football program, won’t have to pay the university for leaving before the expiration of his contract, a person familiar with the mechanics of his departure told WRAL....

Daneen Khan/WUNC News Stepping into the UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium feels similar to entering a witch’s lair. There’s no bubbling cauldrons, but jars of dried plants and vials of extracted oils line a glass cabinet near the entryway. A hodgepodge of yellowed pages and handwritten notes cover nearly every flat surface....

Richard Stradling/The Raleigh News & Observer The N.C. Department of Transportation says the cost of rebuilding Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge has risen again and that it will take a year longer than expected to reopen the highway to four lanes at the Tennessee state line. NCDOT now...

Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News & NC Health News Thousands of dead and bloated pigs floated down country roads, buoyed by floodwaters. Tens of millions of gallons of feces and urine spilled over the brims of lagoons and contaminated everything in their path, including rivers, streams and private drinking water wells....

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Israel’s nearly three-year war against Hamas in Gaza has shifted much of the national Democratic Party into a new, openly critical stance against the Jewish state. A crop of young, progressive, anti-Israel candidates have won primaries or general elections. This summer, a majority of the Democratic U.S....

Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio When American Airlines recently announced its resumption of nonstop flights between Charlotte and Barcelona, it hailed the move as another example of American expanding in Charlotte. But American actually continues to cut back on the number of flights and seats in Charlotte. That’s according to an analysis...

Amy Rhyne/Education NC North Carolina has made significant new investments in childcare and early education. But as members of the North Carolina Task Force on Child Care and Early Education gathered on Monday, much of the conversation centered on a different question: How does the state keep some of its...