Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online Two University of North Carolina Wilmington professors are collaborating this semester on a documentary celebrating community resilience, adding a new perspective to the overall effort of the Down East Resilience Network. The network, often referred to as DERN, evolved in the years after Hurricane Florence ravaged...

Matthew Sockol/CBS 17 News North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a lawsuit Tuesday to prevent the federal government’s termination of more than $230 million in health care funding for the state, his office said. The lawsuit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina Senate Republicans chose a new majority leader on Tuesday, elevating a veteran lawmaker who’s won close swing-district races to a top position in the chamber’s GOP caucus. A news release said the caucus elected Sen. Michael Lee of New Hanover County to the...

Brian Gordon/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Within an hour of trading Friday morning, the Durham semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed had lost half its value. Its shares dove below $2.80 before eventually plateauing around lunchtime. By percentage, it ended up being the biggest single-day decline in Wolfspeed’s 32 years as a public...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News As measles cases climb to 400 in Texas, the epicenter of an outbreak of the highly contagious illness, North Carolina is taking steps to prepare for an outbreak here. Though the state hasn’t recorded any cases this year, officials want to keep it that way. “We’ve...

WRAL News North Carolina lawmakers are scheduled to debate a bill Tuesday that would ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for children who are 14 and 15 years old. The companies that own social media platforms such as TikTok, Facebook and Instagram say they...

The Carolina Journal Private law enforcement group Allied Universal Security Services is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to reject a petition from Charlotte television reporter Nick Ochsner. Ochsner wants state courts to forced Allied Universal to release the names and addresses of two security guards involved in the fatal...

Outer Banks Voice On April 1, the Dare County Tax Appraisal Department announced that 2025 revaluation notices containing the updated appraised value for 41,567 taxable properties have now been mailed to all Dare County property owners. The total value of those properties, according to the county, is $27,453,300,000 or about...

Morty Gaskill/Coastal Review Online In 1976, a North Carolina Sea Grant newsletter sounded the alarm: large-scale land drainage was wiping out wetlands that protect our coastal fisheries. Fishermen saw their livelihoods at risk and 3,000 of them pleaded for action. “We, the undersigned, being commercial and sport fishermen who use...

Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio As the number of cameras installed at homes and businesses continues to grow, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have launched a security camera registry program to allow residents and business owners to share information about potential crimes. CMPD launched Connect Charlotte earlier this year and says the program has...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is teaming up with federal wildlife officials to curb the spread of rabies. Starting this week, the United States Department of Agriculture will distribute oral rabies vaccines for raccoons across western North Carolina. Vaccine baits coated in fishmeal...

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline When Hurricane Helene tore through western Yancey County, Steve Boyd was one of thousands in the area who lost internet access. The 70-year-old retiree, who lives outside of Burnsville, knows he got lucky. He didn’t lose his house, or his belongings — just a couple nearby trees...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News Addressing a crowded ballroom at a Raleigh hotel last Wednesday, Gov. Josh Stein said he is “gravely concerned” about congressional Republicans’ plans to slash federal funding for Medicaid. “These proposals would take away people’s access to health care, destabilize rural hospitals and challenge the bipartisan progress...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Corn farmers on food stamps and taking second jobs. Equipment not being repaired. Debts going unpaid. That’s the reality for many North Carolina corn growers this spring. Last year was the worst season for the crop in state history, according to Ronnie Heiniger, a corn...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The town of Spruce Pine’s riverfront park has been under a layer of mud since Helene’s floodwaters receded. North Carolina’s legislature passed more than $1 billion with two Helene recovery funding bills in October, but by mid-February, about two-thirds of that money still hadn’t been spent. The...