The Associated Press North Carolina will get an in-season close-up for its first season under coach Bill Belichick. In a social media video posted by the program Sunday, Belichick told the players that streaming provider Hulu will feature the Tar Heels in what he described as a season-long show “that...

WRAL News Back-to-school drivers in Raleigh will have to navigate lane closures on a busy commuter route. An eastbound lane on Tryon Road near Brisk Gallop Way remains closed while emergency repairs to a broken sewer line continue. A spokesperson for Wake County Public Schools said the closure is forcing...

Jennifer Shutt/NC Newsline The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside a lower court’s ruling, allowing the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants that addressed diversity, equity and inclusion issues. The 5-4 ruling narrowly divided the court, with Chief Justice John Roberts,...

Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat Beef prices across the United States have hit record highs, and producers in Watauga County are feeling the strain of a shrinking national cattle herd, rising costs and mounting development pressures. Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis shows that ground beef prices, which...

Paul Specht/WRAL News A program designed to protect North Carolinians from people charged with sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking and other crimes faces a murky future as officials seek permanent funding for an organization that monitors alleged perpetrators across the state. The program is operated by the North Carolina Criminal...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily The battle for clean drinking water in southeastern North Carolina continues, this time focusing on the chemical 1,4-dioxane, with local governments and utility providers demanding action from the state. A series of separate letters sent over the past few months from New Hanover County Commissioners, Wilmington...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio Duke Energy is not moving forward with wind energy off North Carolina’s coast after determining proposals from three developers are more expensive than solar panels and battery storage that result in the same amount of energy. The N.C. Utilities Commission’s carbon and resource plan finalized last fall...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press The North Carolina Supreme Court issued favorable rulings Friday for bars and their operators in litigation seeking monetary compensation from the state for COVID-19 restrictions first issued by then-Gov. Roy Cooper that shuttered their doors and, in their view, treated them unfairly compared to restaurants....

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News Weeks after a bitter dispute over a Democratic gala laid bare divisions in Western North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, the field is shifting again. Moe Davis, who joined other candidates in protesting the event’s handling and was first to enter the race back in May, said...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Spontaneous combustion deep within a flood debris landfill blanketed the greater Canton area with smoke this week, and landfill operators and firefighters currently have no way to extinguish the enormous smoldering mountain of mulch. “It’s been on fire, that we know of, deep down inside of...

Ben Crosbie/WCHL Chapelboro Clinical research company Thermo Fisher Scientific held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of its new facility in Mebane on Thursday. Production will begin within the next few weeks at the 375,000-square-foot facility, which will focus mainly on manufacturing precision pipette tips for use in labs...

Nancy McCleary/Sanford Herald The Lee County commissioners voted to move ahead with the process involved in securing a lease agreement from the state for the Endor Iron Furnace property. The 426-acre tract along the Deep River in Cumnock is a designated historic site owned by the state, according to Chad...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio North Carolina could take a $3 billion hit to its economy if a White House request to slash National Institutes of Health funding ends up in the final federal budget. In its discretionary budget proposal for next fiscal year, the Trump Administration recommended a 40% cut to...

Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News Waves from Hurricane Erin surged over N.C. Highway 12, Wednesday, pushing seawater and sand across the asphalt and breaching dunes along the fragile barrier islands of the Outer Banks. For longtime residents, scenes like this are no longer rare. And a new collaborative study suggests that these...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Brunswick County Board of Education voted to pay for its students’ Advanced Placement exams this school year after the North Carolina Senate chose to nix its coverage in its proposed budget. The school board took up the issue at its Tuesday committee meetings. Though the...