Mebane Rash/Education NC On April 23, President Donald Trump signed seven executives orders impacting elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education. Leaders from the departments of labor, commerce, and education, including Secretary Linda McMahon, joined the president in the Oval Office. The orders address school discipline, artificial intelligence (AI), workforce development, apprenticeships,...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Delegates elected Merry Guy as chair of the 11th Congressional District Committee on Saturday, ousting two-term incumbent Michele Woodhouse in a race that pitted two party activists from Henderson County against one another. A past chair of the Henderson County GOP, Guy takes the reins as party...

Korie Dean/The (Raleigh) News & Observer The visas of six international students at UNC-Chapel Hill have been restored after the Trump administration initially terminated them, according to the university. Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday that five students’ immigration records were restored, out of the total of six students who were...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Ashe County public schools are going to have a full house this summer. After a mix of bad weather and severe storms closed schools there for 47 days, Superintendent Eisa Cox plans to take full advantage of a Helene learning loss summer school program. The legislature...

Grace Vitalione/NC Health News North Carolinians are getting older, but there aren’t enough people getting trained to care for them. The population of people ages 65 and older in North Carolina is expected to nearly double to 2.7 million in the next couple decades. Many of those older adults will...

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...