Guy Lucas/High Point Enterprise A conservative group has accused Guilford County Schools of violating the state law known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights. Moms for Liberty-Guilford chair Maria Adams issued a press release saying that educators reportedly have been directed to incorporate literature and curriculum materials from Welcoming Schools,...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Six months ago, Washington Regional Medical Center in Plymouth declared bankruptcy for the second time in five years. Now, hospital leadership hopes that the facility will emerge from this latest financial hardship by late May. That’s good news to the 10,713 residents of Washington County...

Richard Craver/The (Greensboro) News & Record The Piedmont Triad International Airport campus is under consideration for another aviation advanced manufacturing project, this time involving a California aircraft company proposing a production plant with the potential for 10,000 employees. JetZero, based in Long Beach, California, is considering the Greensboro airport among...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC State Superintendent Mo Green sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday questioning the department’s authority to require schools to not use diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in order to continue receiving federal funds. The letter follows the department’s April 3 requirement...

Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News A series of campaign contributions from Chemours and its affiliated political action committee is drawing criticism from residents living near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility and others impacted by PFAS contamination across North Carolina. Chemours, a spinoff of chemical giant DuPont, manufactures PFAS compounds — a class...

Mark Plemmons/The Independent Tribune Cabarrus Superior Court Judge Steven Warren granted a temporary restraining order preventing Lamarie Austin-Stripling from taking office until a suit against Cabarrus County Commissioners can be heard. The ruling was filed Wednesday afternoon. Austin-Stripling was appointed to replace Commissioner Chair Chris Measmer, who was appointed to...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning The Hendersonville City Council and City Manager John Connet say county commissioners pushed ahead to endorse a bill in the state Legislature to outlaw annexation-for-sewer even as negotiations were progressing — in the city’s point of view — to resolve the long-running conflict. In a letter it...

Kelly Kenoyer/WHQR For years, Black residents in Brunswick County have been left off of the public water system, forcing them to deal with lower-quality water from private wells. Now, as developments are popping up all around them, they’re standing up to demand access to county water. Barbara Clark-Hooper is a...

Greg Miller/Lloyd’s List When ships confront an obstacle — a congestion-clogged port, a drought-stricken canal, a militia-harried strait — they just sail around it. US port fees on Chinese vessels, when they begin in October, are just another hindrance to circumvent. Workarounds will be a burden for container lines, but...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Zebulon Town Manager Gilbert Todd, left, and Assistant Town Manager Kellianne Williams resigned within days of each other. Todd says town commissioners told him to take “unethical” disciplinary action against Williams. The two top administrators of the fast-growing Wake County town of Zebulon resigned in the same...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog Nonprofit hospital system Novant Health cannot build a diagnostic center in South Asheville, the North Carolina health department has decided, saying that it would have duplicated services in the region. The March 28 decision from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of...

Stan Choe/The Associated Press Wall Street weakened Monday as investors worldwide get more skeptical about U.S. investments because of President Donald Trump’s trade war and his criticism of the Federal Reserve, which are shaking the traditional order. The S&P 500 sank 2.4% in another wipeout. That yanked the index that’s...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press For the state’s community health centers, like this one in Wilmington, it’s a challenge to cobble together enough funding to stay in business. For residents of rural North Carolina, quality health care can seem nonexistent. Let alone affordable. Now, one of the only options for...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Republican Jefferson Griffin is challenging the State Board of Elections’ plan to require only overseas voters from Guilford County to provide photo ID in order for their ballots to count in November’s race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. If the ID requirement is limited...

Jonathan Bym/The (Southern Pines) Pilot After nearly 25 years without adding a new 18-hole course into its scorecard, Pinehurst Resort announced Monday it will build its second full-scale course in just the past year. Pinehurst Course No. 11 will be located at the Pinehurst Sandmines location in Aberdeen, the same...