Regan Butler/The Daily Tar Heel On March 19, student advisors from the UNC Office of Student Conduct launched the Student Advocacy Network, an independent defense group aimed at providing more robust representation for students facing charges in the new staff-led Conduct Board System. The group hopes to work around the...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio A North Carolina Republican state lawmaker wants to make sure disaster assistance cannot be denied to people based on their political affiliation. Rep. Kelly Hastings, a Gaston County Republican, said he started working on the legislation after reports emerged that a FEMA worker responding to Hurricane Helene...

Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said last week that he plans to make good on a commitment to revise the “waters of the United States” definition, leading conservation groups to worry what will happen to federally protected waters and wetlands. One advocate says the new...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Demolition is underway at the former paper mill in Canton, signaling another step towards a new future for the town. The process is ongoing on the side of the property near Blackwell Drive, with some medium-sized buildings already starting to come down, according to Mayor Zeb...

Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline For the sixth year in a row, Rep. Julie von Haefen has filed a bill to fully fund the state’s Leandro education plan, a landmark court-ordered initiative to provide every child in North Carolina with a sound basic education. And for the sixth year, the Democratic lawmaker...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural women’s health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals can’t afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities can’t afford for them to stop. If any hope exists to stop or reverse this trend, rural...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio  Greensboro recently approved annexing land that was formerly part of the town of Summerfield into its city limits. The land is a portion of nearly 1,000 acres removed from Summerfield by the state legislature last year. It came after years of back and forth between developer David...

WRAL News Raleigh City Council on Tuesday approved a $21.8 million contract that will improve Lake Wheeler Road and make it a “Complete Street.” The “Complete Street” concept would take a road that has no pedestrian or bike access and change it into a road that accommodates all types of...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city will seek to bring more riders into its transit system with a new service offering launching later this month. HPTSGo! will provide on-demand shared rides for passengers to parts of High Point not currently served by the city’s fixed-route bus system. This “microtransit”...

Cindy W. Hodnett/Furniture Today When Klaussner Home Furnishings abruptly closed its doors in 2023, numerous retailers were left in the lurch, including John Garg, CEO of Jennifer Furniture. At the time, Garg told Furniture Today that the sudden shutdown was a “worse situation than COVID for me” and one that...

WSOC News Fishermen Luke Beard and Jason Rosenfeld caught and released a shark Tuesday off the coast of Cape Hatteras on Tuesday. “The biggest priority is keeping the fish safe and get a good release on all fish that we catch,” Beard said. “I was about in tears after we...

Business North Carolina The UNC System Board of Governors approved Kevin Howell as chancellor at NC State University, confirming media reports from last week. Howell will succeed Chancellor Randy Woodson, who is retiring this summer after 15 years leading the Raleigh university. Howell has worked at NC State and the...

Greg Childress/NC Newsline North Carolina’s property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans would increase from $45,000 to $61,000 under a bill approved Tuesday in the House Homeland Security and Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. Currently, the first $45,000 of a disabled veterans’ assessed value of a permanent residence is exempt...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isn’t the full picture. Workforce shortages and demographic shifts — coupled with a lack of regulatory requirements and policy support — compound the problem,...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Dr. Bim Akintade, dean of the East Carolina University College of Nursing (left) poses for a photo with nurse practitioner Ivy Bagley. Bagley was one of about 20 people who graduated in December 2024 from the university’s psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program. Credit: Courtesy of...