Ken Lemon/WSOC News  A woman who nearly bankrupted a Gastonia cancer treatment center will spend 18 months in federal prison. Stephanie Roberts accepted her sentence Wednesday four years after the crime. She claims she did it because of her anxiety. Leaders at Cancer Services of Gaston County said they are...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press Another $500 million would be spent toward Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in western North Carolina in legislation the state House unanimously approved Tuesday. The measure, if enacted, would add to the funds the Republican-controlled General Assembly already approved in late 2024 to spend on disaster...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Interest-free loans for Hurricane Helene relief have begun to flow, the North Carolina treasurer says. Buncombe County ($8.4 million), Chimney Rock Village ($7.7 million) and the city of Morganton ($5.4 million) were the three largest. Twenty governments were awarded more than $1 million. The first round...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio North Carolina Senate Republicans filed a bill Monday to require state law enforcement agencies to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The “North Carolina Border Protection Act” would require the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Adult Correction, the State Highway Patrol and the State...

WWAY News The North Carolina Department of Transportation is expected to replace three bridges in Wrightsville Beach, according to the town. The Town of Wrightsville Beach says that due to the aging infrastructure of these bridges, it has been determined that the three bridges must be replaced, as upkeep and...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Local governments in Haywood County have been hemorrhaging cash to pay for flood recovery and repairs, with no clear timeline for when FEMA reimbursements will start rolling in. Towns and the county have been footing the bill for everything from roadside debris pick-up to bridge repairs...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A local state legislator aims to enshrine legal marriages between those in the LGBTQ+ community in North Carolina as protections for the community erode at the federal level. New Hanover County’s Rep. Deb Butler introduced two bills affecting the North Carolina General Assembly Monday. The bills...

Coastal Review Online Of the more than $265 million that will go to fund 99 drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects in 45 counties, about $60 million will go to the coast, the governor’s office announced last Friday. “When we invest in our infrastructure, we build a stronger and safer...

Laura Leslie/WRAL News Michelle Kirchner graduated from NC State in spring 2024 with a double Ph.D. in biology and entomology. She was excited to find a position with the United States Department of Agriculture [USDA] that allowed her to apply her scientific skills outside the lab. Kirchner was working in...

Jessica Stump/The Watauga Democrat Appalachian State University has received a Research Activity Designation of Research 2 from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education — the nation’s leading framework for categorizing U.S. higher education institutions. This new designation is awarded to institutions with high research activity and doctorate production....

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice The series of six community open houses that begins on Thursday in Kitty Hawk and Nags Head represents a new attempt to build momentum and progress on the thorny issue of generating more housing in the county. These events also introduce a new player in the...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger Atrium Health received a $45 million sales tax refund from North Carolina in 2023 and 2024, hitting a statutory limit allowed by the state for nonprofits, tax records reviewed by The Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News show. And that may not even be the...

New York Times & WRAL News Days after Apple’s CEO met with President Donald Trump, the company said Monday that it planned to spend $500 billion and hire 20,000 people in the United States over the next four years and open a factory in Texas to make the machines that...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News Today in the North Carolina General Assembly, Haywood County Republican Rep. Mark Pless filed a bill that would strip the county of its ability to levy room occupancy taxes. “I think they are mismanaging that money,” Pless told The Smoky Mountain News. “It’s tax money and...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The prevailing strategy in the works to fix I-40 will take lots of rock. Lots and lots and lots of rock. There’s nothing left of the mountainside that once held up I-40 after Pigeon River scoured away the slope, sending it tumbling into the river. Hauling...