James Farrell/WFAE Radio Last month, the family of a 15-year-old Muslim girl accused a 15-year-old Black boy of beating her because of her religion at Ardrey Kell High School. Now, a schism has emerged between some of the city’s Black and Muslim residents and activists, as recriminations and demands for...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press A decade in the making, the future of the forest plan to manage Western North Carolina’s national forests is now hazy, threatened by a lawsuit, a presidential executive order accelerating timber production, and the scars of Hurricane Helene, which leveled thousands of acres of forest. Finalized...

Mebane Rash/Education NC In addition to building relationships across party lines, Gov. Josh Stein is creating spaces for cross-partisan cooperation to happen. Stein in his inaugural address said, “North Carolina strong also means working together across our differences to get things done. And so to the members of the General...

WRAL News Following a March decision to pause the $145 million Crown Event Center project for 30 days, Cumberland County has lifted the suspension on the project’s contract. On Tuesday, the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners announced the project will resume under contractual obligation. “The Board has taken this action...

Ben Bokun/WNCN News  In its 156-year existence, Durham’s Hayti community has seen its share of changes. And now a fenced-off, vacant shopping mall could be the site of a new development worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But many residents are rallying against a rezoning request that would move the...

Igor Bobic/Huffington Post One of the most vulnerable Republican senators in next year’s election is sounding the alarm on President Donald Trump’s global tariffs ― and he’s not mincing words about it. “Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong?” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) asked...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Fifty years after the need for a bridge between mainland Currituck County and its barrier island beaches was first identified, and 30 years after a draft planning document for the proposed mid-Currituck bridge was first released, a recent public meeting revealed that the same issues are...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The Cape Fear River Basin is the source of drinking water for 1.5 million North Carolina residents. It is also where three municipal governments — Asheboro, Greensboro and Reidsville — are legally dumping dangerous levels of 1,4-dioxane, a colorless industrial solvent linked to cancer. But...

WUNC & The Associated Press Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail is a challenge, especially for adventurers making the entire run from Southern California to Canada, and Eric Kipperman’s job is to greet them at the start and lay bare the difficulties ahead. He has lately begun warning that the journey...

Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News When the calls from prison suddenly stopped in February 2024, Erik Ramsey’s family started worrying. Frequent communication was their way of trying to help Ramsey, 29, who’d been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, get through the time until his scheduled release in February 2026. In...

Claire Cranford & Ana Despa/The (Duke University) Chronicle The federal government terminated the visas of two Duke graduate students and an alumnus on Optional Practical Training, according to a Monday morning email sent to international students. The email, sent by Kevin D’Arco, senior associate dean of international students, and Duke...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC Last fall, the General Assembly established a Hurricane Helene Emergency Grant Program for postsecondary students to provide grants of up to $2,500 to eligible students experiencing financial hardship due to Helene. At the time, the General Assembly allocated $10.5 million in funding for emergency grants for...

Lucille Sherman/Axios Raleigh North Carolina’s state health department has ordered the Vance County jail to drastically reduce the number of inmates it houses — from more than 140 to just 20. Why it matters: The order, detailed in a letter sent to county officials April 1, comes after the department...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog For nearly 18 years, Eric Penland Jr. has heard the monotonous sound of the ventilator that keeps him alive. Hour after hour, day after day, year after year, its swoosh-swoosh is as regular as a metronome in the stillness of his semi-dark, seventh-floor room at Mission...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square Hugo and Helene are rare, as is the ever-dangerous tornado outbreaks that sometimes plague the South. Charlotte, regardless of frequency, remains in a dangerous gap every day. U.S. Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C., has introduced the Radar Gap Elimination Act as a vehicle to close it. Bipartisan...