Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro A significant project by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority is set to close parts of West Rosemary Street for roughly 18 months starting this fall. The focus of the West Rosemary project is replacing a water main line that’s more than 80 years old. OWASA Capital...

Alexander Bolton/The Hill Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), one of the most vulnerable Senate Republican incumbents facing re-election in 2026, warned Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) bluntly in a private meeting Tuesday that deep cuts to Medicaid could cost Republicans control of the House and Senate, according to a person...

Chris Burritt/Business North Carolina For decades overshadowed by the growth of the Charlotte and Raleigh regions, the Triad has grabbed bragging rights with a string of economic recruiting successes that, according to mayors, intensify challenges for the Piedmont area. “I love talking to my business colleagues from Charlotte and Raleigh...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio When the North Carolina lottery began in 2005, the idea was that all money would go to public education. The public believed the lottery dollars would supplement money already spent on K-12 schools. But over the last two decades, critics say the lottery money has, in part,...

Alice Scott/The Daily Tar Heel  UNC is temporarily pausing all human resource actions while awaiting further guidance on how the campus will implement a new UNC System-wide personnel cap, according to a statement from UNC Media Relations. “The University anticipates more guidance from the UNC System Office this week and...

The Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a dozen NASCAR teams to provide 11 years of financial data to the stock car series as part of an ongoing legal fight but sharply limited what they need to share. A day after hearing arguments from both sides, U.S. District...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that includes multiple controversial LGBTQ policies. Democrats objected to a GOP move to add the proposals to a popular House bill, prompting a heated fight over the Senate’s rules. The original version of House Bill 805 added new consent requirements...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer listened to her constituents’ testimonies, adding that recent cuts at the federal level will likely result in more lives lost during future natural disasters. Nine months after Hurricane Helene, western North Carolina is bracing for another hurricane season. Residents are speaking out about...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog On June 13, the University of North Carolina-Asheville confirmed a rumor that had circulated for months: It plans to build a soccer stadium on the land currently occupied by 45 acres of woods south of its main campus. The plan, developed in collaboration with the amateur soccer...

Evey Weisblat/CityView Yeadon Domes, an international manufacturer of air domes, will begin construction on its Fayetteville facility following the Fayetteville City Council’s approval on Monday of the company’s annexation and rezoning requests. The site is located on more than 14 acres off Airport Road, in the city’s prime industrial area....

Port City Daily Tim Markley, 61, died suddenly on June 21 while biking the Tour de Blueberry annual charity ride in Willard, North Carolina, according to an online obituary. WECT first reported on June 22 a cyclist died during the festival due to a medical issue, as confirmed by Burgaw...

Stan Choe, David McHugh & Elaine Kurtenbach/The Associated Press Oil prices are dropping further, and U.S. stocks are pulling close to their all-time high Tuesday on hopes that Israel’s war with Iran will not damage the global flow of crude, even if a tentative truce seemed to fray under fire...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio With legislators nowhere close to hashing out a state budget, the North Carolina Senate voted unanimously Monday to send the House an updated version of the most recent Helene relief package. The Senate scrapped much of House Bill 1012, rewriting it to bear many similarities to the...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Resolution plans to three pending lawsuits against the North Carolina State Board of Elections were adopted unanimously by the five-member panel Tuesday. The latest, naming the United States of America as a plaintiff and pursued by the Department of Justice, involved the Help America Vote Act,...

Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Several families on the brink of being unhoused gathered in uptown Charlotte on Monday, asking for more transparency about housing support intended to keep them sheltered. Some residents at the Baymont motel, in northeast Charlotte’s Sugar Creek area, have had to leave after a city-funded program ended....