Felicia Sonmez/BPR News Hundreds of financial leaders, central bank governors and journalists from the world’s largest economies have arrived in Asheville for this week’s G20 finance track meeting. The gathering at the Omni Grove Park Inn will put a global spotlight on Western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene. It’s...

Alex Perri/Smoky Mountain News Incumbent Sen. Kevin Corbin will face newcomer Tom Downing in the race for the state Senate District 50 this November. The two spoke with The Smoky Mountain News to discuss what they consider to be the biggest issues facing constituents this election. The Senate district covers...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The fallout from recent changes to the state’s film grant program is starting to be felt statewide. In Wilmington, local creator of the popular Netflix show “Outer Banks” may relocate his prequel series as he and industry leaders urge the state to find a solution before...

Rodney Overton/WNCN A downtown Raleigh nightclub’s alcohol permits were surrendered to state authorities Saturday after an “escalation of violence” at the business, including four people shot last weekend, Wake County ABC Law Enforcement said. The shooting early last Sunday morning inside Alive nightclub injured four people, and officers saw “a...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro Orange County recently recovered from its “Exceptional Drought,” the highest drought classification that put OWASA’s reclaimed water system to work for much of the summer. Built 17 years ago to improve the community’s drinking water resilience, it has saved the county billions of gallons of drinking water....

Elijah Skipper/WLOS When Joan Hoffman started teaching in 2005, North Carolina was preparing to launch something new: an education lottery. Twenty years later, Hoffman is still teaching at A.C. Reynolds High School. The lottery has grown into a multibillion-dollar operation, and she still hears the same question from the community....

WRAL News Buncombe County health officials reported on Sunday that an individual with measles traveled to Asheville while infectious. Officials did not say what state the person traveled from, but said anyone who was at the Holiday Inn Express, 435 Smokey Park Highway in Asheville on Aug. 26 from 1...

Zachary Turner/WFAE A couple of weeks ago, UNC Charlotte established a new School of Energy in its engineering college, which was a little confusing. After all, in 2008, the university had built the Energy Production & Infrastructure Center, or EPIC, which still focuses on research and educating students to become...

Jamiese Price/WTVD  The Cary Town Council unanimously approved an 18-month moratorium on data centers Thursday evening, temporarily pausing certain development activities while town leaders’ study how such facilities should be regulated. The decision follows growing interest in data center development across North Carolina, driven by the expansion of artificial intelligence...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The N.C. State Board of Elections will hear evidence on whether Cumberland County elections board member Irene Grimes violated state law when she posted on Facebook about Republicans’ intentions to fire the local elections director. The state board voted 3-2 on August 20 along party lines, with Republicans...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio People file into the Old Richmond County Courthouse for a public hearing on Amazon’s data center project. A controversial Amazon data center project in Richmond County is getting the green light from state regulators. The North Carolina Division of Air Quality issued two air quality permits: One...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog  At 8:25 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2024, Noe Serrano Hernandez was put under anesthesia for a routine foot surgery at Mission Hospital. Over the next 51 minutes, the 64-year-old’s vital signs would steadily weaken while the nurse anesthetist supervising his care did not intervene until he suffered...

Chris Stiles/The Robesonian The Lumbee Tribal Council’s Constitution and Ordinance Committee continued discussions on a draft gaming ordinance during its meeting Tuesday at the Tribal headquarters in Pembroke. The ordinance was drafted by Joshua Malcolm, the Tribe’s general counsel, after Tribal Council directed him to explore avenues by which the...

Suhas Nittoor/The Daily Tar Heel For months, students in Gary Pielak’s fall 2025 section of Chemistry 430: Introduction to Biological Chemistry thought their final grades, which many felt were unjust and unreasonably curved, were settled. Last week, UNC amended them. The Chemistry Department assembled a Departmental Review Committee after several...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio State officials are urging leaders in the Wilkes County town of Ronda to dissolve the town’s charter, citing a worsening financial crisis. In a letter to town officials, state lawmakers outlined a series of financial problems, including repeated overspending on the water system, penalties from the IRS...