James Farrell/WFAE Radio Charlotte Catholic High School Principal Lori Phillips is stepping down effective Friday, the Diocese of Charlotte announced. The resignation comes after a flurry of controversies in recent weeks. Those include the diocese’s recent decision to switch to a Catholic-centric accreditation system called Lumen, which prompted petitions and...

Kate Denning/Technician The NC State Board of Trustees met for the first time since November on Friday. Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees Ed Stack gave an update on the chancellor search and Chancellor Randy Woodson addressed President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders and their impact on the University....

Claire C. Carter/Fayetteville Observer The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners met with four of Cumberland County’s state legislators this week to request $128.5 million for projects including a new school, an aquatic center and youth mental health services. In attendance were Sen. Val Applewhite, a Democrat who represents District 19;...

The Coastland Times The Currituck County Board of Commissioners held a special meeting on January 27 to discuss new business items, including the authorization of two sole source purchases, the approval of an awarded contract for the Hangar Taxilanes and T-Hangar project at Currituck Regional Airport, the approval of a...

Tom Joyce/The Mount Airy News Come July, three years will have passed since the Main-Oak Building collapsed and sat unrepaired in Mount Airy’s central business district, but a resolution to its lingering unsafe condition could soon emerge in court. “It’s in the judicial system right now,” Mayor Jon Cawley disclosed...

Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Bryan Lewis, 59, of Forsyth County, found a lump on his neck over a year ago. He had just moved to North Carolina and didn’t have health insurance through his employer, so he signed up for a plan through the insurance marketplace created by the Affordable...

Katie Dukes/Education NC The number of licensed child care programs in North Carolina continues to decline following the expiration of federal pandemic-era funding. Since that time, the General Assembly has offered only partial and temporary extensions of stabilization grants. Those efforts have not been sufficient to halt or reverse the...

Paul Woolverton/CityView United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday signed a memo that says Fort Liberty will become Fort Bragg again, but this time it won’t be to honor Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, the Department of Defense announced. Instead, America’s largest Army post (in terms of population) will...

Brian Murphy/WRAL News The long-anticipated development project around Raleigh’s Lenovo Center moved one step closer to becoming reality Tuesday when the city’s Planning Commission unanimously approved the site’s rezoning application. But dozens of students and leaders from Cardinal Gibbons, the private Catholic high school that sits across the street, attended...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio Last month, Canadian scholars Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva were preparing to travel as part of a routine and time-worn activity for academic authors: giving a book talk at an event in Washington, D.C. In their case, the book is: “The End of College Football: On the...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A series of new river gauges providing real-time water levels went online just days before Helene and is credited with saving lives along the Pigeon. It is now being expanded even more, including new gauges in Waynesville and Maggie Valley, which also saw flooding this time...

WFDD Radio By now, many economists are hoarse screaming that higher tariffs and a trade war will raise prices and hurt the U.S. economy. But many Americans aren’t listening. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University, conducted in late January, found that 42% of Americans believe tariffs will help the U.S....

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro UNC-Chapel Hill is suspending part of its mandatory curriculum around diversity to avoid any potential noncompliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order scrubbing the federal government’s recognition and participation in such efforts. UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and Provost Chris Clemens shared a message with the campus community...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A coastal town in Brunswick County is facing the budget crunch, prompting its city manager to propose a “shared sacrifice strategy” to shore up hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of next fiscal year. After less than a year in the job, Southport City Manager Stuart...

Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Amid a flurry of post-inaugural executive orders that look to halt, eliminate or place conditions on certain swaths of federal funding, Sandhills Community College Trustee Steve Woodward, last week, outlined a series of presidential efforts he said could potentially affect the college. Woodward’s presentation to...