Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural women’s health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals can’t afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities can’t afford for them to stop. If any hope exists to stop or reverse this trend, rural...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio  Greensboro recently approved annexing land that was formerly part of the town of Summerfield into its city limits. The land is a portion of nearly 1,000 acres removed from Summerfield by the state legislature last year. It came after years of back and forth between developer David...

WRAL News Raleigh City Council on Tuesday approved a $21.8 million contract that will improve Lake Wheeler Road and make it a “Complete Street.” The “Complete Street” concept would take a road that has no pedestrian or bike access and change it into a road that accommodates all types of...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city will seek to bring more riders into its transit system with a new service offering launching later this month. HPTSGo! will provide on-demand shared rides for passengers to parts of High Point not currently served by the city’s fixed-route bus system. This “microtransit”...

Cindy W. Hodnett/Furniture Today When Klaussner Home Furnishings abruptly closed its doors in 2023, numerous retailers were left in the lurch, including John Garg, CEO of Jennifer Furniture. At the time, Garg told Furniture Today that the sudden shutdown was a “worse situation than COVID for me” and one that...

WSOC News Fishermen Luke Beard and Jason Rosenfeld caught and released a shark Tuesday off the coast of Cape Hatteras on Tuesday. “The biggest priority is keeping the fish safe and get a good release on all fish that we catch,” Beard said. “I was about in tears after we...

Business North Carolina The UNC System Board of Governors approved Kevin Howell as chancellor at NC State University, confirming media reports from last week. Howell will succeed Chancellor Randy Woodson, who is retiring this summer after 15 years leading the Raleigh university. Howell has worked at NC State and the...

Greg Childress/NC Newsline North Carolina’s property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans would increase from $45,000 to $61,000 under a bill approved Tuesday in the House Homeland Security and Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. Currently, the first $45,000 of a disabled veterans’ assessed value of a permanent residence is exempt...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isn’t the full picture. Workforce shortages and demographic shifts — coupled with a lack of regulatory requirements and policy support — compound the problem,...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Dr. Bim Akintade, dean of the East Carolina University College of Nursing (left) poses for a photo with nurse practitioner Ivy Bagley. Bagley was one of about 20 people who graduated in December 2024 from the university’s psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program. Credit: Courtesy of...

Bradley George/WUNC Radio North Carolina’s largest county used to conduct property valuations every four years, but that’s changing after a vote from Wake County commissioners on Monday. The next revaluation will take place in 2027, three years after the previous one. Starting in 2029, the county will move to a...

Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio The Union County Commission voted unanimously Monday night to ban events from county parks that are judged “obscene,” “sexualized,” or “not suitable for young children.” Commissioners approved the changes with no discussion. Commission Chair Melissa Merrell and other commissioners did not immediately respond to requests...

Todd Miller/Coastal Review Online Dr. Donald E. Ensley, an accomplished public health educator, environmental champion, and steadfast advocate for North Carolina’s coastal communities, is in hospice care, preparing to leave behind a legacy that will forever shape the places and people he touched. Born and raised in rural Belhaven, Don’s...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise Motorists should expect to see more small rubber tubes across High Point streets in the coming months. The devices are being used by the N.C. Department of Transportation to collect traffic counts that are used for a variety of planning purposes. The counters were recently...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer It was an icy mid-winter day when 73-year-old Ann Houghton parked her Subaru Outback at the Smokemont campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, shouldered her pack, and tramped into the woods one Tuesday afternoon in late January. Five days later, search-and-rescue workers found Houghton’s...