Alice Scott/The Daily Tar Heel The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Emancipate North Carolina and Muslim Advocates filed a lawsuit against UNC last week, accusing the University of violating the rights of the students and non-students involved in the pro-Palestine encampment on campus last spring. “We hope that...

Matthew Daly/The Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants. As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other...

Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline When 17-year-old Leon Gu died by suicide in 2020, his parents were shocked to learn they had been in the dark about an academic integrity issue he was facing at Wake Tech Community College, where he was dually enrolled. Dual enrollment allows high school students to take...

Anna Pogarcic/Education NC After the State Health Plan’s Board of Trustees voted to allow salary-based premiums earlier this year, Board members recently began discussing what possible changes to the plan could look like. According to the Board, the State Health Plan is facing a $507 million deficit that could grow...

Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Rob Crane watched his father struggle with lung cancer for months before he died in his mid-60s. It was “really horrendous,” Crane said. As a doctor specializing in family medicine, Crane was inspired by that experience to start raising awareness about the effects of tobacco addiction....

Brian Murphy/WRAL News North Carolina and NC State played for the first time in football in 1894. They first clashed in men’s basketball in 1913. Under a new bill filed Thursday in the North Carolina House, the longtime Atlantic Coast Conference rivals would be required to play each other annually...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The Town of Canton is about to receive a huge economic development boost after Rep. Chuck Edwards announced a $41 million appropriation from a Biden-era water resources program. “Our infrastructure is aged. It’s old. It’s falling apart,” said Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers. “This is historic, one...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online   A deal between Southport to sell hundreds of acres of land to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission remains on the table after elected officials there recently agreed to extend the city’s contract deadline with the state agency. Following what was, at times, a contentious...

Evey Weisblat/CityView  The Fayetteville Public Works Commission is unable to access more than $80 million in federal funding the utility was previously awarded for electric, water and wastewater infrastructure projects. The grants and low-interest loans became inaccessible following President Donald Trump’s executive orders and directives PWC said in its annual...

Daniel Sheehan/Wilmington StarNews Brunswick County residents are teaming up with an international human rights organization to advocate for access to clean water in historically Black neighborhoods. Several residents from historically Black neighborhoods of Brunswick County attended the board of commissioners meeting on Monday, March 17, to express concern about lack...

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...