Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise Elected leaders of Thomasville City Schools issued a statement this week about the status of a school board member who was arrested on a felony charge about a year and a half ago. Ja’Quez D. Taylor, one of five members of the Thomasville Board...

The Associated Press Dry conditions, wind and trees downed by Hurricane Helene fueled wildfires in North Carolina and South Carolina, where evacuation orders were in effect Tuesday. Many people in the area are still getting over the hurricane that hit in September, according to North Carolina Forest Service spokesperson Bo...

Shea Carver/Port City Daily A couple hundred people, including elected officials and arts supporters, were at Thalian Hall on Monday evening to help usher in its next metamorphosis. As reported by Port City Daily in January, there are major plans to renovate the 167-year-old hall. It comes as the city’s...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio The High Point City Council approved a plan on Monday to revitalize the southwest side of the city. The Southwest Mill District Area Plan aims to transform 171 acres into a mix of commercial and residential spaces. It outlines a new zoning district to guide development in...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press North Carolina voters are partial to purple — in a political sense, at least. In last year’s statewide elections, they opted for six Democratic and eight Republican outcomes. While Republican President Donald Trump carried the state by three points, voters also chose Democrats Josh Stein for...

Derick Lee/EducationNC With National Poetry Month just around the corner, EducationNC is highlighting the students who will represent North Carolina at the national Poetry Out Loud competition. Poetry Out Loud is a partnership between The Poetry Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts. The national program promotes arts in...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A federal grant awarded last year to improve drinking water quality in hundreds of rural Brunswick County homes made U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin’s round of funding cuts earlier this month. But Zeldin’s plan to terminate the nearly $20 million grant awarded in December...

Mila Mascenik/WCHL Chapelboro When an email with the subject line “Music Education Program Update” popped up in Corey Sheppard’s inbox last March, he said he couldn’t have prepared himself for the news it held about his chosen field of study. Sheppard, a junior music major at UNC-Chapel Hill, would be...

Mebane Rash/EducationNC On March 20, 2025 — two months after he took office — President Donald Trump signed a presidential action, also called an executive order, titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities.” In part, the order says, “The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent...

Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Kristin Goforth and Lauren Cox, twin sisters aged 49, moved their father into a Piedmont Triad-area assisted living facility on March 13, 2021. Rick Goforth, then 75, was in good health; he was an avid walker who enjoyed being outside. But he was exhibiting signs of...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Gov. Josh Stein’s newly released budget recommendations include a plan to increase starting teacher pay above $50,000, with the goal of making it the highest in the Southeast. Stein noted in his State of the State address that Republicans in the N.C. House have already filed a...

The Associated Press Wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation Sunday in a North Carolina county still recovering from Hurricane Helene, and South Carolina’s governor declared an emergency in response to a growing wildfire in that state. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety announced a mandatory evacuation starting at 8:20 p.m....

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily An international advocacy group is partnering with Brunswick County residents pushing county officials to ensure safe water for African American and low-income residents. This comes as federal spending cuts reduce grant opportunities, leading some to argue the county should directly fund water extensions. International human rights...

Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The idea of banning new vacation rentals in certain Waynesville neighborhoods appears to have fizzled out. A surge in homes being converted to vacation rentals and the associated problems that come with that prompted Waynesville last year to consider whether it’s time to rein them in....

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog In 2004, David Clarke, a botanist who teaches in the biology department at the University of North Carolina Asheville, bought a house on Dortch Avenue, on an edge of the Five Points neighborhood that bleeds into campus. The home was still under construction when Clarke set his...