Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice According to several recent reports, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) is being monitored for information concerning sea rise and shoreline erosion as part of a Trump Administration review of content at all National Park Service (NPS) facilities. On July 22, the National Parks Conservation Association...

Jill Colvin/The Associated Press Michael Whatley, chairman of the national Republican Party, plans to run for an open Senate seat in North Carolina in 2026 with the blessing of President Donald Trump after Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara, passed on the seat. Democrats see the race as their top chance to flip...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Your local radio news briefing, your children’s after-school PBS programming, emergency weather alerts during hurricanes, your tunes during the commute home — all of this could disappear under federal budget cuts to public media heading to North Carolina. That’s thanks to a $1.1 billion cut...

Lisa Worf/NC Health News & WFAE Radio In the past two years, North Carolina’s stricter abortion law has changed the way Jamila Wade treats a small portion of pregnant patients she sees in the emergency room. They’re clearly losing their pregnancies, but the pregnant patient’s vital signs are still stable....

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline Local governments across North Carolina are set to receive more than $200 million in loan money to repair and renovate drinking water and wastewater facilities, Gov. Josh Stein’s office announced Wednesday. The awards will fund 48 projects across 27 counties. They’ll seek to improve infrastructure, address PFAS...

Andrew R. Jones & Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog A former University of North Carolina Asheville research assistant alleged in a lawsuit this year that the university dismissed him from his job after he raised concerns about research misconduct to his bosses and a top school official. Aidan Settman, a 24-year-old UNCA...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio The Guilford County District Attorney has released new information about her decision not to pursue a full state investigation into the actions of Greensboro’s former City Attorney Chuck Watts. DA Avery Crump says she met with State Bureau of Investigation agents late last week to review misconduct...

Brooks Stevenson/WFAE Radio Gov. Josh Stein visited Charlotte on Wednesday to tour Coca-Cola Consolidated’s new job training program. Stein met with students and other employees in the company’s new apprenticeship program, which trains young people for high-demand jobs. Those include manufacturing, equipment repair, and logistics. Gov. Stein says the program...

Taiyana Hill/WRAL News Rocky Mount secured a $3 million grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to introduce a commuter bus service aimed to assist with easier travel to Raleigh. The city is located on the U.S. Highway 64 corridor of Interstate 95—midway between the Triangle and the...

Robert Sullivan/The Salisbury Post Salisbury announced Tuesday that it would be purchasing the historic Salisbury Depot from the Historic Salisbury Foundation for approximately $3.5 million. The purchase is an important step in a trio of projects, which include connection of rail service to Asheville, a second platform for the railroad...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review A federal court decision issued Wednesday blocks the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from using a potentially harmful algaecide at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, a compound that environmental groups argued would endanger the waterfowl the refuge is supposed to protect. Refuge officials had issued a notification in...

Monica Casey/WRAL News A North Carolina couple told WRAL News their reservation was canceled at a local hotel because they are Durham residents. Gwendolyn and Ira Montague live in north Durham, and their home of 50 years was severely damaged in flooding from Chantal. The retired couple stayed at a...

Kristen Richardson-Frick, Mebane Rash & Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC In 2012, The Duke Endowment partnered with one rural church to test a program to combat summer learning loss. Thirteen years later, the initiative that has grown from that investment includes several funders who work together with statewide nonprofit supporters and...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Imagine a courtroom that’s not a courtroom and a judge who doesn’t look like a judge. Imagine a less adversarial system where social workers, court officials, community members and others work with families to help them address the issues that led to their children being taken...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The county shaved off its Workforce Housing Advisory Committee from its roster Monday after some commissioners found it to be a moot point. The committee chair will push for reconsideration, hoping to gain back the support of at least one commissioner, despite the vote to move...