Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Amid a flurry of activity at the General Assembly on Jones Street in Raleigh this week, Moore County’s Senator, Tom McInnis, filed several bills he said are aimed at bolstering local and statewide educational efforts. Those bills include a measure to remove institutional testing requirements...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Guilford County is conducting a countywide property revaluation of all real property in the county, and, right now, it looks like housing prices in Guilford County will come in, on average, about 50 percent higher than they did when they were assessed in 2022, the last...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog The death of a patient in a bathroom at Mission Hospital earlier this month reflects a return to poor staffing conditions, especially in the hospital’s emergency department, similar to those that precipitated federal sanctions last year, healthcare advocates said at a news conference Friday. Understaffing has led...

Anne Blythe/NC Health News When North Carolina started enrolling more people in the expanded Medicaid program almost 15 months ago, hundreds of thousands of low-income people became eligible for an array of dental services. But that didn’t mean dentists across the state started welcoming the new Medicaid beneficiaries onto their...

Cory Vaillancourt/The Smoky Mountain News  Last week, Haywood County Republican Rep. Mark Pless filed a bill that would strip the county of its ability to levy room occupancy taxes. Now, he’s revealed that the impact of tourism on public safety and tight county budgets are also a motivating force behind...

Mitchell Northam & Will Michaels/WUNC Radio  President Donald Trump is downsizing the federal workforce through the Department of Governmental Efficiency, which is headed by billionaire Elon Musk and commonly known as DOGE. Since Trump began his second term in office, thousands of workers have been placed on administrative leave, laid...

The Associated Press The owner of a North Carolina company pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to trying to sell electronic devices that have military applications to China without having a required U.S. government license, authorities said. David C. Bohmerwald, who was formally charged in October with violating the...

Chantal Brown/Education NC Wayne School of Technical Arts, part of Wayne County Public Schools (WCPS), is the only public school in North Carolina that is located on a military installation, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. They share this in common with only a small number of schools nationwide. Leaders say...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily More than a dozen senators sent a letter to the Department of Defense requesting an investigation into the cause of rising rental rates for service member families. The senators emphasized an ongoing national lawsuit against software firm RealPage and its contribution to spiked rents in areas...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A proposal by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to charge a fee for recreating on public lands has been scaled back significantly ahead of a public hearing to be held from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Haywood Community College auditorium. The public hearing in...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise Construction crews at High Point University remain on track to complete work on a pair of buildings before the next school year that will house two recently added academic programs. The projects involve an investment of $92.5 million. The new buildings will become the...

Will Doran/WRAL News Taking a cue from efforts by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk to cut government funding and employees, Republican state lawmakers in North Carolina are emphasizing their own efforts to scrutinize the work of state government. On Thursday an oversight committee in the Republican-led state House...

Steve Harrison & Tony Mecia/Charlotte Ledger & WFAE Radio To start building more transit and roads, Charlotte needs voters to approve. Before getting voters to approve, it needs a state law. And before there’s a state law, there needs to be a bill. This week, Charlotte finally got one. The...

Ariana Figueroa/NC Newsline A federal district judge extended a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration’s move to fire a top government watchdog lawyer, following a Wednesday hearing. The hearing in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on a requested preliminary injunction to halt the firing of Special...

Maggie Newland/CBS 17 News From student achievement to handling executive orders, Dr. Robert Taylor, the superintendent of the Wake County Public Schools System, sat down with CBS 17 to talk about some of the issues the district is facing. He spoke about how district is dealing with some challenges but...