Jeff Brumley/Baptist News Global More than 125 North Carolina faith leaders joined together to urge the governor and legislature to reject a state budget provision guaranteeing public school students up to four hours per week of off-campus religious instruction. The release time for religious instruction policy was adopted in July...

The Greater Fayetteville Business Journal Fayetteville State University’s Broadwell College of Business and Economics has received more than $2.7 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce to expand business education and development programs serving small business owners in Cumberland County and rural communities across Eastern North Carolina. The two awards...

8. Charlotte philanthropists to visit Alabama to learn more about civil rights history Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Members of the Charlotte group New Generation of African American philanthropists will travel Friday to Alabama for a three-day pilgrimage focused on the Civil Rights Movement. Two dozen community members will travel by bus...

Rebekah Mann/The Southern Pines Pilot For 40 years, the Sandhills/Moore Coalition for Human Care has aspired to foster pathways toward long-term stability through community partnership. In September, the Coalition gained ownership of the Mo-Co Community “Freedge,” further expanding its reach and collaborative efforts with Moore County’s population. The “take what...

Sharryse Piggott/WUNC News Seven critically endangered red wolves on Tuesday are moving from the Museum of Life and Science in Durham to a conservation center in New York. The initiative is part of the Association of Aquariums and Zoos’ SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) American Red Wolf program, an ongoing...

Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun Officials at the Federal Trade Commission are probing the $167 billion online sports gambling industry, which has been celebrated by the White House but faces mounting skepticism from some conservative activists. The FTC’s interest in online sports gambling is expected to focus on online sportsbooks such...

Will Doran/WRAL News Democrat Roy Cooper leads Republican Michael Whatley by a wide margin in the race to claim North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat as voters sour on President Donald Trump, a new WRAL/WSOC Poll shows. Whatley, a longtime Republican Party insider, was endorsed by Trump and has themed...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Charlotte Mayor Rob Harrington on Monday vetoed a City Council decision to delay a vote on a new 10-year airport lease agreement with American Airlines and other carriers by a month. The push to postpone the vote was spearheaded by council members who want to improve the...

Chantal Brown/Education NC The Office of Rural Promise at Appalachian State University’s new network of school districts with budding aviation programs seeks to capitalize on shared resources and partnership opportunities beginning in the 2026-27 school year. The Advancing Aviation Education and Rural Opportunities (AAERO) Network is a cohort of 13...

Hayden Wittenborn/WUNC News Raleigh City Council hosted the “Not Just a Curfew: Bridging Gaps for Teens and the Community” forum on Monday evening at the Five Points Center for Active Adults to address concerns around crime and youth spaces. Following teen takeovers in July on Glenwood South and Brier Creek...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News Two North Carolina congressional representatives — a Republican and a Democrat — have teamed up on federal legislation meant to recruit and retain doctors, nurses and other health care workers in rural communities. U.S. Reps. Pat Harrigan (R-10) and Don Davis (D-1) say the bill, which...

Ronni Butts/WUNC News The results of North Carolina’s Court of Appeals election could determine whether Democrats have any voice at all on the state’s second-highest court. The Court of Appeals judges rule on legal and procedural errors in cases from district, superior and administrative courts and is the last step...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online When Jesica Blake accepted a temporary position with the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust in 2002, she was motivated more by a desire to be near family than by the job itself. Her twin daughters were approaching that bittersweet transition to kindergarten. By that time, she...

Jill Doss-Raines/The High Point Enterprise Although Davidson County officials ordered the removal of the county’s Flock license-plate-reader cameras in late August, the system remained active until last week, prompting a new order Monday night to place bags over the cameras. During the Davidson County Board of Commissioners meeting, Commissioner Tripp...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning  An order granting the chief lender’s motion to put the Cedars Lodge & Spa development up for sale contains bad news for some 43 purchasers of luxury condominiums in the stalled project. Forced into receivership by Fuse 10 LLC, the Florida-based finance company that made a $32...