Tiana Kennell/Asheville Citizen Times On April 30, Molly Hastings, an Asheville resident, purchased a dozen eggs for $7 from Sugar Hollow Farm at the River Arts District Tailgate Market. Eggs are typical farmers’ market purchases, as she prefers buying directly from farmers instead of chain grocery stores. “They taste better....

Emily Walkenhorst & Destinee Patterson/WRAL News After a hacker accessed the digital records of students worldwide, including perhaps millions in North Carolina, the company that was breached — PowerSchool — began assuring families that the exposed data was no longer at risk of ending up in the hands of other...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Western North Carolinians need bridges in more ways than one. Seven months after Tropical Storm Helene hit the region, many feel at a standstill. Federal money is in the pipeline, but may not arrive for months — or even years. State funding is coming in waves,...

Katie Dukes/Education NC “I’ve been an advocate for a long time. I love children. I love families. But at some point, your hands are tied. What can you do?” That’s what Cassandra Brooks, owner and operator of Little Believer’s Academy, says she’s been asking herself lately. She kept her small...

Nell Greenfieldboyce/WUNC Radio The Trump administration is sharpening its attacks on the National Science Foundation, the government agency that is a major funder of basic science, math and engineering, especially at colleges and universities across the United States. The latest salvo: a preliminary budget request from the White House that...

Rose Hoban/NC Health News Work on a major renovation of the State Public Health Laboratory screeched to a halt in late March when the administration of President Donald Trump notified states that the federal government was halting some $11 billion in post-pandemic aid that was scheduled to be distributed to...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer May 7 is the day that the TSA will start requiring a REAL ID to fly domestically. But, “we don’t call it a deadline,” said North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles Communications Director Marty Hofman. “A lot of people think that it’s mandatory and they have...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise High Point-based Blue Ridge Cos. has delegated part of its operations to a third party as it seeks to grow other aspects of its business. It recently hired another firm to manage the more than 10,000 apartment units across the 35 residential complexes it owns....

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Residents of the town of Oak Ridge showed up in force at the Guilford County Commissioners meeting on Thursday evening, May 1, to voice their strong opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline that would cut through their community. They cited threats to safety, water quality,...

Paul Garber/WFDD Radio Four graduates of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts have been nominated for Tony Awards. Paul Tazewell is having a good run this year. In March, he became the first Black man to win an Oscar for costume design for his work on the...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Representatives of Pender County and Pender EMS and Fire sat down Thursday to discuss a merger in the works. The meeting took place as outside counsel for EMS also sent a letter to the county regarding concerns on how it’s being handled. Attorney Timberly Southerland of...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A judge with enduring influence over environmental policy was nominated to the agency responsible for setting Duke Energy’s rates. His controversial history ranges from handling Duke’s coal ash pollution a decade ago to striking down 1,4-dioxane regulation last year — and his spouse is chair of...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Metropolitan Transit Commission rejected on Wednesday a request from the town of Matthews to study a different funding split for a proposed one-cent sales tax increase for transportation. Matthews had proposed spending 45% of the sales money on rail transit instead of 40%. The town hopes...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Rep. Mark Pless is taking heat from local paramedics and EMTs after introducing a pair of bills that first responders say will weaken their ability to provide emergency care. With the bills, Pless, himself a former paramedic, again lives up to his reputation of being controversial...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The State Health Plan is deeply in debt. To get out of the red, the 750,000 employees who receive coverage will experience something many were hoping to avoid: the first significant premium increase in nearly a decade. It’s part of the strategy from Brad Briner,...