Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer When modern technology fails in the face of a disaster, sometimes it’s best to take a more proven — if slightly older — approach. And few things are as tried and tested as sending someone to the center of town to yell out news as loud...

Stella Mackler/WFAE Radio Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $50 million in grants to 140 small and midsized farms across the country. This year the grant program — meant to help farmers hire and retain workers — was frozen by the Trump administration. Hart-T Tree Farm was one...

Aaron Beard/The Associated Press Jim Phillips stood in the same spot Tuesday morning that he did exactly one year earlier as he officially opened the Atlantic Coast Conference’s preseason football media days. Only now, the message and tone is far different. The league has successfully quelled a rebellion in the...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News  Mountaineer Little League Baseball has been around since the 1970s, but like everything else, once Hurricane Helene hit, its immediate future was uncertain. The program, which allows kids from the western part of Haywood County to partake in America’s pastime, relies on the use of five...

Jill Doss-Raines/The High Point Enterprise Davidson County’s first outpatient mental health facility opened Tuesday as part of a $6 million new Novant Health Wellness and Education center at Thomasville Medical Center. Novant Health administration and staff, Thomasville city officials, hospital foundation members and community members gathered for the ribbon cutting...

Morgan Casey/CityView Fort Bragg could receive $240 million in federal funds to support the installation’s programs and infrastructure. The funds are included in the U.S. Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026, which the chamber’s Armed Services Committee passed earlier this month. It’s a piece...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press The most recent Helene recovery package from the state allocated $500 million to help address remaining damage to Western North Carolina, more than $4 million of which went to small private colleges and universities in the area. Even so, Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, which says...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Call it a state of suspended animation. A mix of politics, changing national energy priorities, a lack of regulatory direction, and industry nervousness has all but frozen progress on a handful of wind farms that were under development off the North Carolina coast, including two roughly...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene, some in government and the news media were sounding the alarm on the prospect of population loss in affected areas of the state. The fear that there would be a mass exodus from the North Carolina mountains was...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning The two newest Henderson County commissioners expressed alarmed last week when they learned that the latest cost projection added more than $15 million to the price of the jail and courthouse expansion. Already the costliest capital project in the county’s history, the jail addition and new four-story...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio On a busy stretch of North Tryon Street, cars speed past a small strip mall dominated by Latino-owned small businesses, including a taqueria, a bakery and a Mexican grocery store. But inside one of its storefronts, a laundromat, it’s quiet. Blanca Barbosa has worked at the laundromat...

Theresa Opeka/The Carolina Journal The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted unanimously on several items at its meeting Monday morning, including changes to voting for military and overseas voters. The changes stem from protests by Republican Justice Jefferson Griffin, who challenged Democratic candidate Justice Allison Riggs for a...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Famed Charlotte civil rights attorney James Ferguson has died at age 82. He was part of the legal team that won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in 1971 that required school districts to use busing to integrate. Ferguson and fellow attorney Julius Chambers founded North Carolina’s...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise One of High Point’s largest employers says it has expanded its local presence since being bought by another company. Internet service provider Lumos reported that it had 237 employees here at the end of 2024, making it the 24th largest employer in the city, according...

Robert Sullivan/The Salisbury Post    Ahead of a public hearing on the potential purchase of the city-owned Plaza, members of the development team headed by the Wallace family appeared in front of the Salisbury City Council on Tuesday and presented their preliminary plans and gave more information. The City Council’s only...