Peter Castagno/Port City Daily Local elected officials are pushing a broad range of bills to address toxic chemical pollution in North Carolina, including legislation co-sponsored by Rep. Deb Butler (D-New Hanover) to prohibit non-essential PFAS uses and eliminate discharges in drinking water. Rep. Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford), Rep. Deb Butler (D-New...

Aaron Sánchez-Guerra/WUNC Radio Several North Carolina universities have announced that the U.S. government has terminated the visas of some of its international students. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte confirmed to WFAE on Wednesday that the visas of six international students were terminated. On Tuesday, the University of North...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Accusations of understaffing. Weekend pay bonuses slashed. A death in the emergency room. It’s been an exhausting start to 2025 for nurses at Mission Health in Asheville. Mission Health operates the hospital in Asheville and five smaller, rural hospitals across the North Carolina mountains. The...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio The chief financial officer for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools resigned Tuesday night in the wake of a significant budgeting error. An audit found that Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools overspent its budget last year by about $16 million. Chief Financial Officer Thomas Kranz presented that information to the school board...

WRAL News A Durham nonprofit announced more layoffs Thursday following the Trump administration’s reduction in federal funding. FHI360 said it will reduce its workforce as a result of “the U.S. government’s reduction of federal funding and termination of projects,” reducing 144 employees in North Carolina and another 340 staff members...

Jonah Valdez/The Intercept The Trump administration is expanding its campaign against international students to target not just those active in pro-Palestine advocacy, but also students entirely uninvolved in protests and campus activism. With little or no justification, the Trump administration is revoking the visas and immigration statuses of hundreds of...

Morgan Casey/CityView Fort Bragg’s over 50,000 active-duty military personnel, and their families, are gaining an additional local support system. Blue Star Families, a national nonprofit military family support network, is launching the Fayetteville Greater Region Chapter to help the families of service members build community. The chapter provides seven counties...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A non–profit is sounding alarm bells on the state of housing in Haywood County. Rent prices have become increasingly unattainable for the working class. Making matters worse, the federal government has frozen funds for a voucher program that covers the gap between what low-income renters can...

Paige Gross/NC Newsline The next time you’re on a Zoom meeting or asking ChatGPT a question, picture this: The information zips instantaneously through a room of hot, humming servers, traveling hundreds, possibly thousands of miles, before it makes its way back to you in just a second or two. It...

Mebane Rash/Education NC North Carolina’s community college system is 58 colleges strong, and no longer are they the state’s best kept secret. April is Community College Month, according to the Association of Community College Trustees, and this year EdNC is surfacing stories about why attending community college is the “best...

Heidi S. Skinner/Coastal Review Online Often mistaken for moss, lichens are actually quite different. Like mosses, lichens are found all over the world, with somewhere between 12-18,000 known varieties. The number is probably way more, as new specimens are being discovered every year. America has 3,600 different named lichens, while...

Politico President Donald Trump reversed course in the global trade war he launched just a week ago, announcing in a social media post a 90-day pause on new tariffs against every country but China. That came just hours after Trump urged the country to “BE COOL” in another post that...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel of North Carolina announced on Wednesday his candidacy to try to unseat Sen. Thom Tillis in 2026, saying a “fighter for what’s right for our state” is needed and criticizing the Republican incumbent for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda....

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A triumphant victory in mining rock for Interstate 40 slide repairs from the nearby national forest was announced by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration two weeks ago — but the reality isn’t quite what was telegraphed by the agency. A press release declared that the federal...

Korie Dean/The (Raleigh) News & Observer The federal government has terminated the visas of half a dozen international students at UNC-Chapel Hill, according to the university’s media relations office. According to a statement from the office provided to The News & Observer, the university’s International Student and Scholars Services office...