Ben Humphries/Education NC After weeks of negotiations and nearly one month into the new fiscal year, the North Carolina General Assembly voted this week to adopt a continuing budget resolution — a “mini-budget” — that funds essential parts of the state government. The mini-budget funds step adjustments for employees on...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News For nearly two decades, a self-styled reformer with no law enforcement experience who toppled a longtime sheriff and rode a rising red tide to four reelection victories enjoyed his unusual transformation from outsider to one of the most powerful law enforcement figures in rural Western North...

Kelly Kendall/WXII News It’s crunch time for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools leaders. More than 50,000 students will return to classrooms in about two weeks, as district leaders continue to grapple with a $46.1 million budget shortfall from the previous fiscal year. The board of education came together for a special-called meeting...

Stella Mackler/WFAE Radio Building, rehabilitating, instructing, developing, growing, employing. Those are the promises made by the BRIDGE program, which trains incarcerated young men to fight fires, among other skills. But does it hold true to those promises? For Burt Torrain, the answer is complicated. Torrain participated in BRIDGE in 1991....

Chloe Courtney Bohl/IndyWeek After Saint Augustine’s University lost accreditation this week, the school’s leaders are appealing to alumni to fundraise $1 million they say they’ll need for a lawsuit against their former accreditor. On Monday night, about 200 SAU alumni joined a Zoom call with interim university president Marcus Burgess,...

Hendersonville Lightning The final overnight closures of Interstate 26 in Henderson County related to the widening project are set to occur this week. “There will be no more full closures in Henderson County,” Resident Engineer Mike Patton said. “As far as what the travelling public will notice, our project in...

Bradley George/WUNC Radio The Trump Administration is investigating Duke University over its diversity practices. The probe comes as hundreds of employees prepare to leave the university due to federal funding cuts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Education Secretary Linda McMahon recently sent a letter to...

WSOC News Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper raised over $3 million in the first 24 hours after announcing his bid for the U.S. Senate. According to campaign officials, Cooper’s campaign received $2.6 million, while nearly $900,000 was directed to the Democratic Party. North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race is expected...

The Associated Press North Carolina Republican lawmakers on Tuesday overrode several vetoes by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, getting just enough votes from Stein’s own party to enact some laws while falling short on others. The votes were key tests for Republican General Assembly leaders since they narrowly lost their veto-proof...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro Facing funding cuts from both the state and federal governments, UNC administrators shared some broad areas it aims to trim roughly $70 million from its operating budget on Wednesday — including consolidating jobs and scaling back financial aid to out-of-state students. Ahead of a budget presentation to...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online North Carolina’s attorney general is confident federal funding unceremoniously stripped from local governments earlier this year will be reinstated under a court ruling. “I think we’re going to win in court,” Jeff Jackson said Tuesday afternoon. “I think our argument is very strong.” Jackson had just...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted Mission Hospital’s request for a temporary stay of a lower court’s decision to grant 67 acute care beds to AdventHealth nearly three years ago. The order, delivered without comment, came just two days after attorneys for Mission Hospital filed...

Rose Hoban & Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News After a month away from Raleigh, state lawmakers returned to the capital on Tuesday — along with crowds of protesters and supporters — for a session aimed at overriding  vetoes issued by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein during the recent legislative session. The galleries...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County landed in the crosshairs of national social media ire this week after inflammatory videos went viral alleging that a Black truck driver hauling chipped flood debris to a private landfill in Canton was bullied by unhinged workers. The videos whipped up a maelstrom of...

Daniel Walton/Blue Ridge Public Radio A plan that would shift Asheville’s approach to citizen advisory boards drew concerns from both residents and City Council members during Tuesday’s council meeting. As previously reported by BPR, Asheville city government has been considering changes to 15 of these boards, which consist of local...