Tom Barclay/WRAL News The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation will break ground on its new headquarters on Tuesday. SBI is hosting a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m. on May 19 at the site of its new campus on Garner Road in Raleigh. The campus will include a new headquarters...

Joe Bruno/WSOC News Charlotte City Councilmembers and the mayor’s office are slated for significant pay raises in Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones’ budget. Right now Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles makes $49,774. The budget increases the mayor’s salary to $57,054, a 14.6% raise. The current total compensation for the mayor, which...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN Work has begun on a $6.3 million project intended to strengthen the resilience of electrical grids in eastern Cumberland and Sampson counties, state officials said. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality State Energy Office and Four County Electric Membership Corporation broke ground on the project in Magnolia...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Cumberland County leaders want a developer to build an upscale, full-service hotel with 126 rooms, meeting space, a restaurant, and a rooftop bar on Gillespie Street in front of the county courthouse in downtown Fayetteville. No price has been publicly discussed for the project. No decision has been...

Caroline Parker/Education NC One Wednesday in late April at Rockingham Early College High, students in Valencia Abbott’s 10th grade civics class read an article involving Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and other real-world examples of rising health care costs. Abbott, who was named the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s 2025 National History...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Arrival of Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, comes with North Carolinians paying $4.17 for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline and $5.39 for a gallon of diesel. Even at 36 cents better than the national average for traditional transportation energy, it’s an expensive...

Mary Helen Moore/Axios Raleigh A federal antitrust lawsuit targeting the broiler chicken industry is nearing settlement, putting one of North Carolina’s biggest agricultural sectors in the spotlight. Why it matters: Chicken is American consumers’ favorite — and typically cheapest — source of meat. Driving the news: The U.S. government and...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Fayetteville City Manager Doug Hewett proposed a $322 million budget for fiscal year 2027 on Thursday, telling council members the proposal “keeps the main thing the main thing” by protecting core services, finishing projects already underway, and making what he called “strategic investments that position Fayetteville for...

Chris Stiles/The Robesonian The Lumbee Tribe’s event commemorating its federal recognition may have physically been within the campus of UNC Pembroke on Saturday. But the celebration, in a way, stretched nationwide. Members of the tribe and its allies traveled to Pembroke from as far away as Washington state as several...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Mallard Creek High School has filed a formal appeal after one of its winning track and field runners was disqualified for celebrating as he crossed the finish line, a decision that cost the school a chance at a third straight state championship. Now viral videos show that...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees is continuing to impede faculty-led tenure appointments – a move that’s highly unusual in academia. The board’s reputation for meddling in department tenure decisions started when a group of trustees intervened in the hiring of journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2021. They voted...

The Bladen Journal Bladen Community College is preparing students for takeoff with the launch of an Aviation Management degree program beginning in the fall. In addition, the college is developing an Air Traffic Control program that is expected to begin in spring 2027 that will make the school the first...

Elaina Athans/WTVD News Mike Ryan was among the first of 12 people to move into the Mira Apartment building when it open doors two years. Now, he’s watching as the City Gateway project is talking shape and is excited for what’s on tap. “I think it’s just growth, and growth...

Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/Education NC North Carolina students have experienced one of the fastest post-pandemic recoveries in math scores nationwide since 2022. Reading scores, however, have dropped since 2022 — and both scores remain below 2019 levels. These results are part of the Education Scorecard, a collaboration between the Center for Education...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A change in the makeup of North Carolina’s juvenile detention population with adult court youth surging from 39% to 65% in a year presents new challenges for the juvenile detention system as it scrambles to accommodate this changing population, according to a new report from the...