Port City Daily The New Hanover Community Endowment announced the awarding of 111 grants totaling $500,000 to nonprofit and community-serving organizations across New Hanover County. This inaugural round of 2025 grantmaking includes 70 community grants — awards capped at $5,000 sourced and recommended by the Community Advisory Council — and...

Brenna Flanagan & Shea Carver/Port City Daily The fintech banking company nCino, headquartered in Wilmington, laid off more than 100 employees Wednesday. The company also has offices in London, Melbourne, Salt Lake City, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. According to an email obtained by Port City Daily, nCino’s CEO Pierre Naudé...

Ben Rappaport/Border Belt Independent Stepping outside her home on Britt Road near St. Pauls has become a burden for Viv Tolson Wayne. Warm days are the worst. That’s when dozens of buzzards line her yard, attracted by the stench of the Robeson County Landfill across the street. Wayne, 74, said...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools officials say the district’s estimated shortfall for this fiscal year has climbed to approximately $42 million. A little more than half of the deficit — $24 million— is on the district’s local expense fund, which is provided by the county. The rest is on...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Martin General Hospital has stood abandoned in Williamston for almost two years, leaving Martin County residents with limited access to local health care. But the hospital is now slated to reopen as a new type of hospital for North Carolina: a Rural Emergency Hospital. This...

Taylor Knopf/NC Health News A new report by Disability Rights North Carolina found that a legal tool used to hold patients against their will for psychiatric treatment is frequently misused — violating patients’ rights and causing them long-term harm. When a person is having a mental health crisis — such...

WRAL News Activists gathered in Mebane on Tuesday to speak out against Buc-ee’s planned near the intersection of Interstate 40 and 85. It that would be the gas station’s first location in North Carolina. The popular, super-sized gas station and convenience store is set to be built on 34 acres...

Outer Banks Voice The Dare County Board of Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on June 9 at 9:00 a.m. to receive comments on the Manager’s Recommended FY26 Budget and Planned FY27 Budget that was presented to the Commissioners on May 5. The Public Hearing will be conducted at the...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Avelo Airlines — which operates an expanding base at Concord Regional Airport offering passenger flights — began an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month to assist with deportation efforts. Avelo Airlines told WFAE that the charter program to assist in deporting migrants is...

Jason Stoogenke/WSOC News You may have to wait even longer to get your tax refund if you haven’t gotten it yet. Some taxpayers in North Carolina have reached out to Action 9 asking what’s happened with their money. We found out there’s an issue that’s only affecting people who are...

Erik Verduzco/The Associated Press Park ranger Jesse Anderson leads dozens of people on a weekly hike in North Carolina to see some of the most unique living things in the world — plants that supplement the nutrients they get from sunlight by digesting ants, flies and spiders. But the Venus...

Allen G. Breed/The Associated Press The brightly colored sign along the S-curve mountain road beckons visitors to the Gemstone Mine, the “#1 ATTRACTION IN CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE!” But another sign, on the shop’s mud-splattered front door, tells a different story. “We will be closed Thursday 9-26-2024 due to impending weather,”...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio Martin General Hospital closed in 2023, but a new state appropriation is set to reopen the facility as a Rural Emergency Hospital. A new state initiative for rural healthcare will help reopen a hospital in Martin County. The NC Care Hospital investment will provide $150 million to...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily Emergency response, in particular fire service funding, was at the forefront of a county commissioner discussion after a wildfire triggered evacuations and a now-lifted state of emergency. Meanwhile, an advocacy group pushes the county for extended water access to reduce fire risk. After Potential Tropical Cyclone...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Darlene Fore is terrified. She’s a nurse at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Asheville: a hard, but stable, federal job. Last year, her family was devastated by Tropical Storm Helene. Now, as she reaches 60 years old, her job, and her retirement benefits, could...