Monica Casey/WRAL News  Durham City Council members will hear a report on the final Vision Plan for the future of the Durham Freeway on Thursday. The freeway was built in the 1970s to connect Research Triangle Park to central Durham, but the path destroyed historic Black communities, including some of...

Sophia DePhillips/Port City Daily  Water was at the center of discussion this week at the Pender County commissioners’ meeting. Ideas on how to connect utilities to a rural western part of the county were broached, as was a 20-year master plan to determine where water is needed and the process...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer As Canton’s paper mill is disassembled piece by piece, the uncertainty of its future looms larger than the out-of-service silos still standing on the property. No one yet knows what will become of the sprawling site. But before anything can take root, the old equipment and...

Brad Rich/Coastal Review Online Marine scientists and others at the University of North Carolina Wilmington are waiting anxiously for the arrival of a new $7.5 million, state-funded research vessel that will greatly enhance research capabilities and learning opportunities for students. While the school’s marine science students hail from far-flung locations,...

Dasia Williams/CityView Cumberland County Schools expects to spend nearly $4.5 million this school year to maintain a layered security network that includes school resource officers, traffic control officers, and unarmed security guards across the district. The Cumberland County Board of Education approved four school safety agreements on June 9 that...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News The UNC System has responded to a “national call to action” from the federal government. Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon issued a letter to universities across the country asking leaders to affirm their commitment to several principles of “academic excellence” to help “restore...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press Within this enclosure and behind these vacant industrial buildings in northeast Raleigh sits the Old Raleigh Landfill #7, one of many similar sites across the state that DEQ hasn’t yet investigated. Mackenzie Thomas / Carolina Public Press A North Carolina audit released last month reveals a...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio A candidate for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education is facing two felony charges related to the alleged misuse of a company credit card. Ronald Jason Lucero, a Republican candidate for an at-large seat, was arrested last month and charged with two counts of obtaining property by...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog The hearing Wednesday at Asheville-Buncombe Technical College was a routine part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) certificate of need process. It was an opportunity for state regulators to hear public comments and presentations on the competing proposals before them. But today,...

Chantal Brown/Education NC The U.S. News & World Report released its updated rankings on Aug. 18 of public North Carolina high schools for the 2026-27 academic year based on several student performance indicators. The results come after evaluating about 27,000 eligible public high schools across the country, with nearly 18,000...

Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline “This is the big one.” That’s how North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson described the landmark federal trial that got underway Tuesday, in which Meta is accused of designing its platforms to be addictive to  children. Jackson and a bipartisan group of 28 other attorneys general allege...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio A group of members of Congress, including two from North Carolina, are criticizing conditions at a Georgia immigration detention center where immigrants detained in the Charlotte area are frequently sent. Democratic U.S. Reps. Valerie Foushee and Deborah Ross of North Carolina toured the Stewart Detention Center in...

Dasia Williams/CityView Cumberland County Schools expects to spend nearly $4.5 million this school year to maintain a layered security network that includes school resource officers, traffic control officers, and unarmed security guards across the district. The Cumberland County Board of Education approved four school safety agreements on June 9 that...

The Associated Press Atlantic Coast Conference rivals North Carolina and NC State will meet in a nonconference men’s basketball game in Greensboro on Dec. 15. The schools on Wednesday announced the scheduling of the neutral site Tobacco Road Classic several months after the ACC reduced its conference slate from 20...

Ally Kadlubar & Amy Benkovich/WRAL News The City of Raleigh on Wednesday announced the closing of a breezeway near the downtown GoRaleigh bus station as it works to create safer public transit. According to Assistant Director of Transportation Het Patel, the city will install fencing next week at a breezeway...