Evey Weisblat/CityView  A legal drama spanning nearly seven years between the City of Fayetteville and four homeowners associations with private dams that breached during Hurricane Matthew shows no sign of stopping, as the city rejected a settlement offer from the plaintiffs last Monday. The city confirmed its response to the...

Laura Leslie/WRAL News A bill advancing in the North Carolina House would put the brakes on Garner’s bid to expand its land-use planning authority to more areas in southeastern and south-central Wake County. House Bill 173 would halt Garner’s request to expand its extraterritorial jurisdiction, also known as ETJ, to...

Guy Lucas/The High Point Enterprise Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt made Guilford Technical Community College’s advanced-manufacturing training center the second stop in what is planned as a statewide tour in support of the workforce training provided by all 58 North Carolina community colleges. GTCC President Tony Clarke and several students in...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro The Orange County Board of Commissioners recently rejected a proposed senior housing community located at Morrow Mill Road. Finding Fiddlehead Corner unfit for the rural community, the board’s March 6 meeting concluded last month’s public hearing. If not unanimously rejected by the board, the 55+ housing community...

Coastal Review Online  Tens of thousands of additional private drinking water wells are now eligible for PFAS contamination testing around Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant. The company, at the direction of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, is expanding well sampling eligibility for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to portions of...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio Forsyth County is seeking clarity from the North Carolina General Assembly about whether adopted siblings can legally marry each other. The issue was included in its list of legislative priorities, which the county submits to its lobbyist for advocacy at the state level. This year, there were...

Brian Gordon/The (Raleigh) News & Observer FHI 360, a global research nonprofit headquartered in downtown Durham, announced more indefinite furloughs Monday, citing continued frozen payments from the U.S. Agency for International Development. After furloughing a third of its U.S. staff in February, the organization said 45% of its domestic workforce...

Daniel Sheehan/Wilmington StarNews The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement project was slated to have a big year in 2025. Last year, the project made headway when three design alternatives were proposed following a preservation project to extend the life of the current bridge. The project was awarded a $242 million...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer N.C. Rep. Mark Pless is carrying the ball for five Maggie Valley property owners who feel they are unfairly subjected to town taxes or zoning rules. Pless has filed a bill that would remove eight parcels from the town limits, which would collectively save the five...

Will Hofmann/Asheville Citizen Times Despite a natural disaster, two Western North Carolina national park sites remained among the most visited in the country in 2024, though a March 5 National Park Service memo indicated the Trump administration wishes to obscure information relevant to the number of visitors. While major sections...

John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: What measures are they taking to control the resuspension of sediment from the tributaries flowing into the North Fork reservoir? Some background: the mountainous area around the reservoir experienced severe erosion, including landslides, that resulted...

Moss Brennan/The Watauga Democrat Former Watauga County Schools Superintendent Scott Elliott has taken on a new role to assist with Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. Elliott will serve as the deputy director for engagement for the newly formed Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (GROW NC) and work with agencies...

Ashley Belanger/ARS Technica Donald Trump’s sudden decision last week to attack the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act after he previously offered assurances that he wouldn’t has sent shockwaves across the industry and has even given some Republicans whiplash. Soon after Trump told Congress that the CHIPS Act is a “horrible,...

Chantal Brown/Education NC The North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation has brought on a new chief advancement officer. The foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is meant to support the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS). Its board stewards the endowment, raises awareness and funds to develop and advance the...

Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio A Trump Cabinet official says the Department of Housing and Urban Development will not approve Asheville’s proposed plan for $225 million in disaster recovery if that spending plan includes programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. HUD Secretary Scott Turner wrote that “DEI is dead...