Kip Tabb/Coastal Review Online Dare County commissioners and school board officials gathered Wednesday and plunged their ceremonial shovels into the ground at the south end of the College of the Albemarle campus here, marking the start of construction of the Dare County Early College building. Early college programs are part...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio New data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows a 160% increase in the number of daily arrests across North Carolina compared to the same period last year. According to data obtained through the Deportation Data Project, in the timeframe since Trump began his second term through...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro Central North Carolina and the Orange County community are in the earliest stages of figuring out a way back from some catastrophic floods to neighborhoods and towns from Tropical Depression Chantal on Sunday. That includes people who have lost their homes, as emergency responders conducted dozens of...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Applications for $16 billion in federal assistance for North Carolina agricultural producers who suffered crop losses from Hurricane Helene and other natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 are opening this week. Secretary Brooke Rollins of the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday the Supplemental Disaster Relief...

Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News North Carolina prison officials plan to have beds in all 54 state prisons fully air conditioned by 2026. Work is needed at 22 prisons to achieve that goal. April Barber Scales recalls her 18 summers spent incarcerated without air conditioning at the North Carolina Correctional Institution...

Mebane Rash/Education NC On Monday, June 30, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) sent the following to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) regarding federal funding that was expected to be disbursed on July 1. Given the change in Administrations, the Department is reviewing the FY 2025 funding for...

Jane Winik Sartwell/N.C. Health News North Carolina is the most expensive state in the nation for health care, according to a highly cited claim made by Forbes magazine, at least. But how true are those claims about costs? Not very, according to a new analysis that challenges both the methodology...

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline North Carolina officials have denied a local firm’s request for the state to re-bid a critical hurricane rebuilding contract. The state held a hearing last month after IEM International, which is based in Morrisville, filed a complaint alleging that it was improperly disqualified from receiving the $81.5...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Convened in separate special called meetings on June 16, the Henderson County Board of Commissioners and the Hendersonville City Council each voted unanimously to adopt an interlocal agreement and proposed legislation to settle their differences over city utility extensions. At last, it appeared, the end was in...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Rebecca Fitzgibbon hasn’t breathed easy since her 11-year-old son was put in the back of a police car by his school principal in the parking lot of Shining Rock Classical Academy. Since then, as she’s looked for accountability — or at least answers — she’s faced...

Jason Canady/CityView The Hope Mills Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 on Monday to amend the town’s charter to establish four-year staggered terms for elected board members. Until now, the mayor and commissioners have served two-year terms. The change will take effect this election cycle in November. Board members Bryan Marley...

WRAL News Gov. Josh Stein visited one of the hardest hit areas from Tropical Depression Chantal Tuesday afternoon to tour the Lake Michael Park in Mebane and survey the flood aftermath. The dam Stein surveyed was under construction at the time of the flood, closing the park until further notice....

Lola Oliverio/NC Health News North Carolina lawmakers have been debating for years about regulating hemp and marijuana products. Now state lawmakers and an advisory council tapped recently by the governor are looking again for ways to control the growing synthetic hemp and unregulated cannabis market described by some as a...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press While Helene’s impact on North Carolina varied across the region, the 2024-2025 school year was anything but ordinary for most Western North Carolina school districts and created significant obstacles to student learning. Districts like Ashe County, in the state’s northwestern corner, missed upwards of 40 days...

The Associated Press The longtime sheriff of a western North Carolina county whom some women accused of sexual misconduct has quit before he could be permanently removed. Curtis Cochran, who was first elected Swain County sheriff in 2006, retired from the post effective July 1, according to a statement from...