WSOC News Queens University of Charlotte will become an active NCAA Division I member on July 1, after successfully completing a three-year reclassification process, officials stated Tuesday in a news release. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors’ decision grants Queens University access to Division I membership benefits, including full...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Wake schools Superintendent Robert Taylor plans to give an update on the district’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning Tuesday to the Wake County Board of Education. The district has struggled recently with more than 60 schools losing at least one day of school in the past two...

Blaire Mirmow/NC Health News On a bitter November morning in Newland, North Carolina, Ashton Johanson climbed aboard the purple dental bus parked outside High County Community Health’s medical clinic. Inside the cramped mobile unit, the floor heaters sputtered. Supplies were running low. The suction machine had been acting up for...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Every voting member on the New Hanover County Schools curriculum committee recommended reinstating a banned book’s availability for curriculum use on Monday. The committee took up the issue of “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,” a book outlining the “history of racist ideas” in America since 1415....

Chandler Inions/Salisbury Post There was a new addition to the Juneteenth lineup over the weekend in Salisbury — a guided trolley tour through the annals of the city’s rich Black heritage. Scattered around the city are numerous historical markers outlining various points in Salisbury’s history, including contextually significant Black accomplishments...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Plans to place the Canton Police Department in one of the area’s historic buildings are continuing to move forward, though the demands of building on the National Register of Historic Places will likely mean officers won’t move in until 2027. Construction on the nearly $5 million...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press A series of four videos over nearly four weeks have shown University of North Carolina System employees professing the continuation of DEI initiatives in their respective universities despite the system’s policies against such programs, the latest being out of UNC Wilmington. But undercover reporters and freelancers...

Brian Murphy/WRAL News Football and men’s basketball players at North Carolina will receive the majority of the school’s $20.5 million in revenue sharing beginning next month. Women’s basketball and baseball players will receive some revenue sharing, too, the school’s athletics department announced Monday in a letter from athletics director Bubba...

Frank Daniels IV/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Two of Southern Pines’ most historic hotels are entering a new chapter through a joint venture that pairs their local owners and one of the golf industry’s leading hospitality companies. Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club, which opened in 1921, and Pine Needles Lodge...

Ryan Dezember & Jennifer Hiller/The Wall Street Journal New York intends to build a large nuclear-power facility, the first major new U.S. plant undertaken in more than 15 years and a big test of President Trump’s promise to expedite permitting for such projects. Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an interview...

Anne Blythe/NC Health News A legislative proposal put forward by the state Senate that would open the door for hedge funds and private equity firms to acquire, open and operate dental practices not run by licensed dentists in North Carolina has hit a hurdle in the state House of Representatives....

The Associated Press The Green Party will remain an official party in North Carolina, able to field candidates statewide through the 2028 elections, even though their 2024 nominees for governor and president failed to get the votes required by state law. The Republican-led State Board of Elections voted 3-2 on...

Outer Banks Voice Following passage in the NC Senate last week, a bill with an amendment calling for a ban on shrimp trawling in the state’s inland waters and within a half mile of the Atlantic shoreline is expected to be voted by the House on Tuesday, June 24. The...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News  Finally face to face amid a simmering standoff over library governance and subjectively inappropriate material in a regional library system that’s served locals for more than 80 years, Jackson County commissioners spent nearly three hours in a joint meeting with the Fontana Regional Library Board of...

Kristen Blair/Education NC Seven charter schools have secured final approval from the state’s Charter Schools Review Board to open for the 2025-26 school year, with the CSRB clearing the new schools to open at its monthly meeting on Monday, June 9. The seven schools are members of this year’s Ready...