Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online Addressing PFAS and other emerging compounds is a “top priority” for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Secretary Reid Wilson told the more than 300 attending the N.C. Water Resources Research Institute’s annual conference. “We are spending a lot of time and energy” working on...

Will Doran/WRAL News Dan Bishop, a hardline conservative politician from Charlotte, is now one of the country’s top officials in charge of implementing President Donald Trump’s budget plans. The U.S. Senate confirmed Bishop in a party-line vote Wednesday, 53-45, to be the new No. 2 official at the White House...

Will Michaels/WUNC Radio Dollar Tree has made a deal to sell Family Dollar, the bargain store chain that was founded in North Carolina nearly 70 years ago. The $1 billion sale announced Wednesday comes a decade after Dollar Tree bought Family Dollar for $8 billion. Dollar Tree has struggled to...

Caleb Herrera/The Daily Tar Heel On Friday evening, the Board of Elections announced Leah Frazier as the 2025-2026 Graduate and Professional Student Government president. This announcement came after a Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday made almost all the candidates write-ins, and an emergency BOE meeting Friday afternoon that disqualified Nyssa...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina government cashed in early when it came to reaping fiscal benefits from authorized sports wagering in the ninth-largest state. A report presented Wednesday to the North Carolina State Lottery Commission, which regulates the betting, says the state expects to have collected $131.3 million...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press As President Donald Trump and his appointees rifle through the country’s balance sheets looking for federal spending to slash, many North Carolina nonprofits are operating in a state of financial uncertainty, hoping they’re not the next target of the administration’s cost-cutting ambitions. While state agencies haven’t...

Haywood County CofC Watco’s Blue Ridge Southern routes in the region have been shut down since Tropical Storm Helene, but that’s about to change. The Canton to Waynesville line is open now, and the route from Asheville to Dillsboro should open by the end of March, said Kyle Ogle, general...

Will Atwater/NC Health News On Saturday, March 15, volunteers gathered at sites like West Point on the Eno River, where cool temperatures and gray skies greeted them. Wearing neon-colored vests and armed with grabber tools and trash bags, they spread out — some working in small groups, others on their...

Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio A two-day charrette kicked off on Tuesday in Charlotte to gather community input on ways to redevelop Interstate 77 and undo some of the harm it caused by its construction. Consultants and city representatives discussed redevelopment plans with community members near Johnson C. Smith University. They explained...

Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot A once-stalled piece of legislation has been reintroduced in the General Assembly and could affect the Village of Pinehurst’s efforts to regulate short-term rentals (STRs). Sponsored by Pinehurst’s own State Sen. Tom McInnis, S.B. 291 would prevent municipalities across the state from prohibiting the use...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A four-block area of downtown Clyde was evacuated and roped off Sunday afternoon as a potential blast radius after the discovery of a so-called ‘military relic.’ At least that’s what the Haywood Sheriff’s office called it. But what was the military relic, how did it end...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Republican Tariq Bokhari plans to resign from the Charlotte City Council and will become the No. 2 transit official in President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation. Bokhari will serve as deputy administrator for the Federal Transit Administration, which, among other things, is responsible for awarding billions of...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger A lawsuit filed earlier this month seeks to stop Atrium Health from taking control of organ donation services at partner hospital Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. For 40 years, Wake Forest Baptist relied on HonorBridge, an independent organ procurement organization...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Southern Bank recently announced plans to close Aurora’s only bank branch. The mayor is talking to other small banks about taking over the location. Credit unions are seeking to expand into rural areas through legislation moving in the state House, a move they say would improve access...

Paul Specht/WRAL News North Carolina lawmakers want to ban legal hemp products from public school grounds. Tobacco products are already banned from North Carolina public schools. The House Health Committee on Tuesday advanced a bipartisan bill, known as House Bill 328, that would require public school districts to also adopt...