Port City Daily Tim Markley, 61, died suddenly on June 21 while biking the Tour de Blueberry annual charity ride in Willard, North Carolina, according to an online obituary. WECT first reported on June 22 a cyclist died during the festival due to a medical issue, as confirmed by Burgaw...

Stan Choe, David McHugh & Elaine Kurtenbach/The Associated Press Oil prices are dropping further, and U.S. stocks are pulling close to their all-time high Tuesday on hopes that Israel’s war with Iran will not damage the global flow of crude, even if a tentative truce seemed to fray under fire...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio With legislators nowhere close to hashing out a state budget, the North Carolina Senate voted unanimously Monday to send the House an updated version of the most recent Helene relief package. The Senate scrapped much of House Bill 1012, rewriting it to bear many similarities to the...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Resolution plans to three pending lawsuits against the North Carolina State Board of Elections were adopted unanimously by the five-member panel Tuesday. The latest, naming the United States of America as a plaintiff and pursued by the Department of Justice, involved the Help America Vote Act,...

Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Several families on the brink of being unhoused gathered in uptown Charlotte on Monday, asking for more transparency about housing support intended to keep them sheltered. Some residents at the Baymont motel, in northeast Charlotte’s Sugar Creek area, have had to leave after a city-funded program ended....

WSOC News Queens University of Charlotte will become an active NCAA Division I member on July 1, after successfully completing a three-year reclassification process, officials stated Tuesday in a news release. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors’ decision grants Queens University access to Division I membership benefits, including full...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Wake schools Superintendent Robert Taylor plans to give an update on the district’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning Tuesday to the Wake County Board of Education. The district has struggled recently with more than 60 schools losing at least one day of school in the past two...

Blaire Mirmow/NC Health News On a bitter November morning in Newland, North Carolina, Ashton Johanson climbed aboard the purple dental bus parked outside High County Community Health’s medical clinic. Inside the cramped mobile unit, the floor heaters sputtered. Supplies were running low. The suction machine had been acting up for...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Every voting member on the New Hanover County Schools curriculum committee recommended reinstating a banned book’s availability for curriculum use on Monday. The committee took up the issue of “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,” a book outlining the “history of racist ideas” in America since 1415....

Chandler Inions/Salisbury Post There was a new addition to the Juneteenth lineup over the weekend in Salisbury — a guided trolley tour through the annals of the city’s rich Black heritage. Scattered around the city are numerous historical markers outlining various points in Salisbury’s history, including contextually significant Black accomplishments...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Plans to place the Canton Police Department in one of the area’s historic buildings are continuing to move forward, though the demands of building on the National Register of Historic Places will likely mean officers won’t move in until 2027. Construction on the nearly $5 million...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press A series of four videos over nearly four weeks have shown University of North Carolina System employees professing the continuation of DEI initiatives in their respective universities despite the system’s policies against such programs, the latest being out of UNC Wilmington. But undercover reporters and freelancers...

Brian Murphy/WRAL News Football and men’s basketball players at North Carolina will receive the majority of the school’s $20.5 million in revenue sharing beginning next month. Women’s basketball and baseball players will receive some revenue sharing, too, the school’s athletics department announced Monday in a letter from athletics director Bubba...

Frank Daniels IV/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Two of Southern Pines’ most historic hotels are entering a new chapter through a joint venture that pairs their local owners and one of the golf industry’s leading hospitality companies. Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club, which opened in 1921, and Pine Needles Lodge...

Ryan Dezember & Jennifer Hiller/The Wall Street Journal New York intends to build a large nuclear-power facility, the first major new U.S. plant undertaken in more than 15 years and a big test of President Trump’s promise to expedite permitting for such projects. Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an interview...