Lora Lavigne, WRAL Anchor and Reporter Durham Public Schools is working to address an ongoing bus driver shortage. A Durham County Commissioner is now chipping in, striving to be apart of the solution. “We’ve always struggled with drivers. We’ve always struggled with trying to keep and retain our bus drivers...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Fayetteville State University held a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday for its new College of Education building. With the new space, the university hopes to increase its enrollment of students in the College of Education and add new bachelor and graduate degree programs for them, officials said. Fayetteville...

Felicia Sonmez/WFAE Radio The number of passengers traveling through Asheville Regional Airport dropped sharply in October, according to figures released Friday by the airport authority board. Overall passenger traffic numbers in October 2024 were down about 53% compared to October 2023. Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority President and CEO Lew...

Jimmy Potts/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The Maggie Valley Police Department issued more than 40 citations last week for commercial trucks illegally traversing U.S. 19 over Soco Gap. Trucks seeking a detour around the closed section of I-40 are finding their way to Maggie and attempting to take the narrow, steep, curvy,...

Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise An $18.5 million federal grant will advance several redevelopment initiatives in south High Point. The Southwest Renewal Foundation has been selected as one of 105 recipients of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “community change grant,” the EPA announced Thursday. The nonprofit was the lead applicant for...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Imagine that a hurricane skirted the coast, causing the power to go out. You wait for the green light to blink on your backup power. Getting the all-clear, you flip on the switch connected to the community’s wave-powered alternate generator, and your refrigerator is humming again....

Brian Murphy/WRAL News Before the University of North Carolina ended up here — here being an introductory press conference for one of the most successful professional football coaches ever, but one who has never coached a single collegiate down, seated between a chancellor who comes from finance and not academia...

The Associated Press North Carolina’s Supreme Court issued mixed rulings Friday for businesses seeking financial help from the COVID-19 pandemic, declaring one insurer’s policy must cover losses some restaurants and bars incurred but that another insurer’s policy for a nationwide clothing store chain doesn’t due to an exception. The unanimous...

Kevin Griffin/Greensboro News & Record When the time came for the final override vote on Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of House Bill 382 on Wednesday, two Democratic representatives were absent. One of them, Rep. Joe John of Wake County, issued a statement after the vote explaining he had recently been...

Diane Wilson/WTVD A couple living in Pittsboro, North Carolina learned that 20 acres of their land was nearly sold off without their knowledge. This involves 20 acres of land along Olive Chapel Road in Apex, which has been in Bob Kelly’s family since the 1800s. “My grandmother was born (on...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Work on Project Grace is moving full speed ahead at the corner of North Third and Grace streets in downtown Wilmington. New Hanover County’s $56 million redevelopment of its downtown library branch and the Cape Fear Museum reached a key milestone last month when crews removed a tower...

Jakob Emerson/Becker’s Hospital Review Barriers to accessing GLP-1 medications are beginning to break down as drug manufacturers, insurers, and lawmakers look to expand availability, lower costs, and address continued high demand. In December, Eli Lilly partnered with telehealth company Ro, enabling eligible patients to receive Zepbound prescriptions during telehealth visits...

Christopher Miller/Independent Tribune As part of a new era of county leadership, Chris Measmer, the new chairman of the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners, laid out his vision for the year ahead in an exclusive interview with The Independent Tribune. More than anything, Measmer, who is in his second term...

Mebane Rash/Education NC Janet Blount, the director of human resources for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, has announced updates to the leadership and organizational structure of the department under Superintendent-elect Maurice “Mo” Green’s leadership that are “designed to drive growth, efficiency, and collaboration across the organization.” The announcement says...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Protestors are planning to gather at Wilmington Police Department headquarters to push for reforming the agency’s handling of sexual assault cases, but police say some of the proposed policy changes could make the process harder. Cassie Payton, a Wilmington resident and organizer of Saturday’s protest, is...