Paul B. Johnson/The (High Point) Enterprise The Guilford County Board of Commissioners will consider $75.9 million in economic incentives for a major economic development project during a special meeting and public hearing at 10 a.m. June 12. The name of the manufacturing company, its location within the county and job...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Nearly 2,000 women in Harnett County give birth each year. But the county’s only hospital no longer has a space fully equipped for them to deliver. Betsy Johnson Hospital in Dunn closed its maternity care unit in 2023, citing financial trouble. Harnett County women must...

Mary Helen Moore/WFAE Radio Republican leaders in the General Assembly are discussing whether to cut off the money large cities get for street paving projects. Since 1951, communities have gotten state money to maintain local roads through the Powell Bill. According to the Department of Transportation, most of that money...

Greg Allen & Marisa Peñaloza/WFAE Radio Before Hurricane Helene last September, Stuart and Jackie Pacheo’s home was wedged between the highway and a small creek in this town just outside Asheville. “We’re standing in what used to be the living room,” says Mr. Pacheo, “The kitchen was behind you, a...

Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro The end of the 2024-25 school year was a time of celebration for UNC, as more than 6,000 students received their diplomas – and the Tar Heel women’s lacrosse team brought home an NCAA championship for good measure. University officials say they’re excited about the future as...

Richard Craver/The (Greensboro) News & Record Anyone questioning why Graham Bennett chose to become Piedmont Triad Airport Authority’s chairman at 72 only needs to look at his face when he answers. Between the sparkle in his eyes, mischievously raised eyebrows and a warm, confident smile, Bennett demonstrates how pleased he...

Stephanie Armor/KFF Health News Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game. Days later, he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. He had eaten tainted salad,...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Summerfield has a problem. It’s trying to keep its town charter and, in that attempt to do so, town leaders are proposing nearly doubling the town’s tax rate and adding new services. The new proposed budget for fiscal 2025-2026 calls for raising the property tax rate...

Shea Carver/Port City Daily After a façade and roof collapse in the last year-and-half in downtown Wilmington brought about public safety concerns, county staff, at the behest of commissioners, researched a program to require periodic inspections of buildings 100 years or older. However, on Thursday area leaders decided against moving...

Dr. Céline Gounder/MSN The Trump administration has moved to end funding for a broad swath of HIV vaccine research, saying current approaches are enough to counter the virus, multiple scientists and federal health officials say. Notifications that the funding would not be extended were relayed Friday to researchers, who were...

Elena Giordano/Politico Donald Trump’s war on some of America’s most iconic colleges is a major opportunity for European academia and research. Now the EU is under pressure to seize it. University professors and research center directors across the continent see silver linings in the U.S. president’s crackdown on American higher...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina officials on Wednesday downgraded anticipated state revenue collections compared to their recent forecast, largely over rising economic uncertainty and the risks of a U.S. recession. The adjustments agreed upon by economists working in Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s budget office and at the General...

Emily Thomas/Education NC The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) announced a new rural advanced manufacturing toolkit featuring “innovative partnership models that are meeting the evolving workforce demands of the state’s advanced manufacturing sector, particularly in rural regions,” according to a recent press release. The new resource was created by...

Rachel Roubein & Lena H. Sun/The Washington Post  The Department of Health and Human Services is pulling millions of dollars it had committed to give Moderna to aid the effort to develop a vaccine to combat the bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday. Under President Joe Biden, HHS...

Mary Helen Moore/WUNC Radio For the first time, North Carolina’s commercial and recreational fishing industries are set to split the southern flounder catch 50-50 this year. That decision was made by the Marine Fisheries Commission last week in a 6-3 vote. After administrative approval, it will take effect in August....