Port City Daily After a successful three weekends launching a pilot program in February, the Brooklyn Arts District Collective is approaching city council by August about the permanency of a social district. The proposal to allow the district to launch every Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. will be considered...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Mecklenburg County’s nine-year partnership with The Peebles Corporation could be nearing its end. The county hired the firm in 2016 to redevelop Brooklyn Village in Second Ward. Nine years ago, Mecklenburg County commissioners made a crucial decision: They selected the Miami Beach-based Peebles Corporation to redevelop Brooklyn,...

Amanda Harry/QCity Metro The NAACP won’t invite President Donald Trump to its national convention, scheduled for July 12 – 16 at the Charlotte Convention Center — the first time the national civil rights organization has so rebuffed a U.S. President. At a Charlotte press conference on Monday, NAACP President and...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina congressional and legislative districts drawn by Republicans that helped them retain majorities in Raleigh and Washington are in court, as federal lawsuits accuse mapmakers of illegally eroding Black voting power in the process. A three-judge panel convened Monday in Winston-Salem for a trial...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Two years ago, state lawmakers allocated $500 million to a group that helps academic researchers turn their work into business startups. But as the organization issues its first grants, the legislature could soon take back the money. The funding for NCInnovation was designed as a one-time appropriation...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Less than 1% of people affected by Tropical Storm Helene in Western North Carolina had flood insurance. That means that most of the personal property and business property losses incurred as a result of the costliest disaster in North Carolina history will not be reimbursed...

WRAL News It’s a project that was first identified in 2003 – the lack of a Wake County park facility in the eastern portion of the county. Now 20 years later, commissioners took a major step in the creation of Lake Myra County Park in Wendell. On Monday, Wake County...

Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News As local governments face ongoing challenges such as high inflation and rising crime rates, a pair of cities in the Triangle is being viewed as having two of the most effective leadership teams in the country. WalletHub released its report on the “Best & Worst-Run Cities...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio Alamance County Commissioners have approved next year’s budget, which includes a property tax increase aimed in part at supporting local schools. The tax hike was a central point of debate during Monday’s hours-long meeting. Several community members spoke during the public comment period, urging commissioners to avoid...

Morgan Casey/CityView Cumberland County and the City of Fayetteville are expected to receive millions of dollars from the national opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma and the company’s owners, the Sackler family. N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson was among the 55 attorneys general who signed on to the $7.4 billion settlement,...

Lilly Knoepp/Blue Ridge Public Radio Western Carolina University announced Friday that its Office of Intercultural Affairs (ICA) is closed “effective immediately.” A statement from Chancellor Kelli Brown explained that the decision was a “restructuring of student support services to better align with the UNC System Policy on Equality.” The Office...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. announced one week ago he would shake up one of the key volunteer groups that advises the Centers for Disease Control and federal government on how to use vaccines. All 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger When Christy Owca’s 17-year-old son flipped his Jeep in a crash in 2019, she was grateful that an ambulance got him to the hospital quickly and that his injuries turned out to be minor. So when the first bill from Gaston County’s ambulance...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press More than three months after McDowell County placed its Department of Social Services director on leave, officials have kept quiet about upheaval inside the office responsible for child welfare and a range of other public services. A letter obtained by Carolina Public Press revealed that McDowell...

Will Doran/WRAL News A bill to shift wide-ranging regulatory powers from North Carolina’s governor and other executive branch leaders to state lawmakers is advancing in the legislature, with a final vote expected in the coming days. House Bill 402 seeks to block executive-branch agencies from passing almost any new rules...