Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A truck driver who claims he was terrorized and assaulted by an angry mob of landfill workers at a flood debris site in Canton has made good on his threat of a lawsuit. A federal lawsuit against the private landfill company and six of its employees...

Charlie Kingree/Wilmington StarNews Avelo Airlines flights from Wilmington to Houston will stop after September, while Detroit service will only run during peak periods. The airline is cutting the routes earlier than originally planned due to low demand. Travelers can still book one-stop flights to these cities on various airlines. Two...

Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare Shifting federal COVID-19 vaccine criteria are making seasonal vaccinations a more complicated process, both for patients and providers. Retail pharmacies are often the most convenient places for patients to get COVID-19 vaccines, and, up until recently, it didn’t require a prescription and insurance companies covered the shots....

Donica Phifer/Axios Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that President Trump may grant some exclusions on tariffs for home construction supplies, potentially offering relief to homebuilders. Why it matters: The housing market has stalled as the cost of purchasing has risen and supply has dwindled. High interest rates, as well...

Brian Gordon/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Natron Energy, the sodium-ion battery startup that last summer promised to create 1,000 jobs at a future $1.4 billion factory in Eastern North Carolina, will stop operating as a company Wednesday due to funding issues. “We appreciate our customers and partners support though our...

Ryan Kilgallen/The (Duke) Chronicle International students at Duke are facing new challenges this year as visa delays and denials rippled through undergraduate and graduate programs, due to restrictive policies implemented by the Trump administration. The fallout has already reshaped the start of the semester. Some graduate students attended their first...

Kaitlyn Dang/WRAL News Wake County and the town of Zebulon are looking for a new operator for Five County Stadium. And a familiar name is in the running. Public documents provided ahead of Tuesday night’s Wake County’s Board of Commissioners meeting proposes Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) as the new lessee...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Some City Council members are concerned that it may be difficult for transit riders to serve on a new transit authority board. 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....

Michelle Crouch/Charlotte Ledger & NC Health News When city of Charlotte workers get sick, they don’t have to wait weeks for a primary care appointment or shell out a co-pay for an urgent care visit. Instead, they can often be seen on the same day, at no charge, at one...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press In late August, the Department of Homeland Security gave the North Carolina State Board of Elections six days to decide whether to take an invitation-only, “exciting opportunity” to root out noncitizens from its voter roll. If the elections board took the deal, it would hand over...

Fabio Cupolo Carrara/La Voce di New York U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday his department has opened talks with leading universities, including Harvard, on agreements that would give the federal government rights to patents from research funded with taxpayer money. “We have given tens, if not hundreds, of billions...

Morgan Casey/CityView Cumberland County will spend $250,000 in unused pandemic-era funds to help residents experiencing homelessness. The money will fund a pilot of the Cumberland County Community Development Department’s Homeless Prevention and Stabilization Voucher Program, which the board of commissioners approved on Aug. 25. The program will pay up to...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Dozens of North Carolina communities are in limbo after FEMA canceled more than $200 million worth of grants for flood-mitigation projects earlier this year in the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Grant program, also known as BRIC. For Forest City in Rutherford County, the now defunct...

Jane Porter/IndyWeek A dozen black cows graze by the side of Shearon Harris Road, on 189 acres just south of Old U.S. Highway 1 in New Hill, a rural, unincorporated town in western Wake County. Some rustic-looking farmhouse structures sit further back on the property, framed by gently sloping hills....

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County has turned to a rarely used method to speed up the FEMA buyout process — hiring a consulting group to weed through the paperwork. And ironically, Haywood County can get reimbursed from none other than FEMA for the cost of hiring someone to help...