Chris Lovingood/WRAL News More than 1.5 million North Carolinians could lose food and medical assistance when new limits on SNAP and Medicaid go into effect. That’s why Durham County’s leadership wanted an update Monday on the scope of the issue at the county level. A representative with Durham County’s Department...

Shalina Chatlani/NC Health News Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Bonner has been working 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past four years, while attending and paying for college to finish her prerequisites for medical school. But now that President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending law bars...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press  Employees at Asheville’s Mission Hospital say they aren’t shocked to hear that parent company HCA is potentially in noncompliance with its purchase agreement of the Mission Health hospital group for the second year in a row. Neither are the region’s elected officials. The company, however,...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County has confirmed its 13th case of pertussis, or whooping cough, since early July, meaning infections are on the rise with just two weeks before students go back to school. While it’s typical to see kids getting sick about three weeks into the school year,...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News   A blistering letter signed by four Democratic candidates for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District is raising questions about party neutrality in primaries, calling the party’s decision to include only one congressional candidate — Jamie Ager — as the keynote speaker at the NC-11...

Ali Swenson & Gary Fields/The Associated Press The requests have come in letters, emails and phone calls. The specifics vary, but the target is consistent: The U.S. Department of Justice is ramping up an effort to get voter data and other election information from the states. Over the past three...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The University of North Carolina Wilmington is continuing its overflow housing practice in the upcoming school year as it expects to enroll around 275 students more than beds available on campus. This represents around 10% of the incoming freshmen class. As customary, freshmen are required to...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A proposal to strengthen and expand building rules in Leland’s flood zone will not be indefinitely sidelined, proponents of the changes say. “I’m not going to let this die,” said Leland Councilmember Veronica Carter. “I will bring this up at every single meeting until we get...

Richard Craver/The (Greensboro) News & Record The board of directors of Wells Fargo & Co. are rewarding — both monetarily and by promotion — the work of chief executive Charlie Scharf in guiding the bank out of nearly nine years of regulatory purgatory. On Thursday, the board notified shareholders and...

Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice Following a July 30 announcement from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) that it was, “rescinding all designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS),” the fate of future domestic wind energy development is uncertain. The BOEM release references a Presidential...

Jonathan Bym/The (Southern Pines) Pilot The fire service has a simple credo: When a call comes, you go. You ride the rig you have, work with the tools on the truck, employ the skills you’ve been taught, and function as one team with all who respond. And yet, that’s getting...

Shea Carver/Port City Daily A new committee has formed from the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization to assess potential funding mechanisms for large-scale projects regionwide, including the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement. Some are even suggesting a tri-county bond referendum, mimicking recent transportation legislation passed in North Carolina’s largest...

Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aspire to put the school “on the global map” with the development of a new stadium to host cricket, rugby and soccer games ahead of the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, according to a proposal...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio When the Trump administration recently reversed course on billions in federal education funding, it wasn’t the first time something like this happened. Earlier this year, it also pulled – and then reinstated – COVID relief funds that had a big impact on one Robeson County school. If...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News The first domino fell when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t renew North Carolina’s $13.8 million HIV Prevention and Surveillance grant before it ran out on May 31. The second blow came when the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services passed...