Brian Murphy/WRAL News North Carolina and NC State played for the first time in football in 1894. They first clashed in men’s basketball in 1913. Under a new bill filed Thursday in the North Carolina House, the longtime Atlantic Coast Conference rivals would be required to play each other annually...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The Town of Canton is about to receive a huge economic development boost after Rep. Chuck Edwards announced a $41 million appropriation from a Biden-era water resources program. “Our infrastructure is aged. It’s old. It’s falling apart,” said Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers. “This is historic, one...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online   A deal between Southport to sell hundreds of acres of land to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission remains on the table after elected officials there recently agreed to extend the city’s contract deadline with the state agency. Following what was, at times, a contentious...

Evey Weisblat/CityView  The Fayetteville Public Works Commission is unable to access more than $80 million in federal funding the utility was previously awarded for electric, water and wastewater infrastructure projects. The grants and low-interest loans became inaccessible following President Donald Trump’s executive orders and directives PWC said in its annual...

Daniel Sheehan/Wilmington StarNews Brunswick County residents are teaming up with an international human rights organization to advocate for access to clean water in historically Black neighborhoods. Several residents from historically Black neighborhoods of Brunswick County attended the board of commissioners meeting on Monday, March 17, to express concern about lack...

Regan Butler/The Daily Tar Heel On March 19, student advisors from the UNC Office of Student Conduct launched the Student Advocacy Network, an independent defense group aimed at providing more robust representation for students facing charges in the new staff-led Conduct Board System. The group hopes to work around the...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio A North Carolina Republican state lawmaker wants to make sure disaster assistance cannot be denied to people based on their political affiliation. Rep. Kelly Hastings, a Gaston County Republican, said he started working on the legislation after reports emerged that a FEMA worker responding to Hurricane Helene...

Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said last week that he plans to make good on a commitment to revise the “waters of the United States” definition, leading conservation groups to worry what will happen to federally protected waters and wetlands. One advocate says the new...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Demolition is underway at the former paper mill in Canton, signaling another step towards a new future for the town. The process is ongoing on the side of the property near Blackwell Drive, with some medium-sized buildings already starting to come down, according to Mayor Zeb...

Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline For the sixth year in a row, Rep. Julie von Haefen has filed a bill to fully fund the state’s Leandro education plan, a landmark court-ordered initiative to provide every child in North Carolina with a sound basic education. And for the sixth year, the Democratic lawmaker...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural women’s health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals can’t afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities can’t afford for them to stop. If any hope exists to stop or reverse this trend, rural...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio  Greensboro recently approved annexing land that was formerly part of the town of Summerfield into its city limits. The land is a portion of nearly 1,000 acres removed from Summerfield by the state legislature last year. It came after years of back and forth between developer David...

WRAL News Raleigh City Council on Tuesday approved a $21.8 million contract that will improve Lake Wheeler Road and make it a “Complete Street.” The “Complete Street” concept would take a road that has no pedestrian or bike access and change it into a road that accommodates all types of...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city will seek to bring more riders into its transit system with a new service offering launching later this month. HPTSGo! will provide on-demand shared rides for passengers to parts of High Point not currently served by the city’s fixed-route bus system. This “microtransit”...

Cindy W. Hodnett/Furniture Today When Klaussner Home Furnishings abruptly closed its doors in 2023, numerous retailers were left in the lurch, including John Garg, CEO of Jennifer Furniture. At the time, Garg told Furniture Today that the sudden shutdown was a “worse situation than COVID for me” and one that...