Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A four-block area of downtown Clyde was evacuated and roped off Sunday afternoon as a potential blast radius after the discovery of a so-called ‘military relic.’ At least that’s what the Haywood Sheriff’s office called it. But what was the military relic, how did it end...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Republican Tariq Bokhari plans to resign from the Charlotte City Council and will become the No. 2 transit official in President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation. Bokhari will serve as deputy administrator for the Federal Transit Administration, which, among other things, is responsible for awarding billions of...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger A lawsuit filed earlier this month seeks to stop Atrium Health from taking control of organ donation services at partner hospital Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. For 40 years, Wake Forest Baptist relied on HonorBridge, an independent organ procurement organization...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Southern Bank recently announced plans to close Aurora’s only bank branch. The mayor is talking to other small banks about taking over the location. Credit unions are seeking to expand into rural areas through legislation moving in the state House, a move they say would improve access...

Paul Specht/WRAL News North Carolina lawmakers want to ban legal hemp products from public school grounds. Tobacco products are already banned from North Carolina public schools. The House Health Committee on Tuesday advanced a bipartisan bill, known as House Bill 328, that would require public school districts to also adopt...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise Elected leaders of Thomasville City Schools issued a statement this week about the status of a school board member who was arrested on a felony charge about a year and a half ago. Ja’Quez D. Taylor, one of five members of the Thomasville Board...

The Associated Press Dry conditions, wind and trees downed by Hurricane Helene fueled wildfires in North Carolina and South Carolina, where evacuation orders were in effect Tuesday. Many people in the area are still getting over the hurricane that hit in September, according to North Carolina Forest Service spokesperson Bo...

Shea Carver/Port City Daily A couple hundred people, including elected officials and arts supporters, were at Thalian Hall on Monday evening to help usher in its next metamorphosis. As reported by Port City Daily in January, there are major plans to renovate the 167-year-old hall. It comes as the city’s...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio The High Point City Council approved a plan on Monday to revitalize the southwest side of the city. The Southwest Mill District Area Plan aims to transform 171 acres into a mix of commercial and residential spaces. It outlines a new zoning district to guide development in...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press North Carolina voters are partial to purple — in a political sense, at least. In last year’s statewide elections, they opted for six Democratic and eight Republican outcomes. While Republican President Donald Trump carried the state by three points, voters also chose Democrats Josh Stein for...

Derick Lee/EducationNC With National Poetry Month just around the corner, EducationNC is highlighting the students who will represent North Carolina at the national Poetry Out Loud competition. Poetry Out Loud is a partnership between The Poetry Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts. The national program promotes arts in...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A federal grant awarded last year to improve drinking water quality in hundreds of rural Brunswick County homes made U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin’s round of funding cuts earlier this month. But Zeldin’s plan to terminate the nearly $20 million grant awarded in December...

Mila Mascenik/WCHL Chapelboro When an email with the subject line “Music Education Program Update” popped up in Corey Sheppard’s inbox last March, he said he couldn’t have prepared himself for the news it held about his chosen field of study. Sheppard, a junior music major at UNC-Chapel Hill, would be...

Mebane Rash/EducationNC On March 20, 2025 — two months after he took office — President Donald Trump signed a presidential action, also called an executive order, titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities.” In part, the order says, “The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent...

Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Kristin Goforth and Lauren Cox, twin sisters aged 49, moved their father into a Piedmont Triad-area assisted living facility on March 13, 2021. Rick Goforth, then 75, was in good health; he was an avid walker who enjoyed being outside. But he was exhibiting signs of...