By Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise Consultants who recently evaluated downtown parking needs for the city looked into the issue as part of a larger goal of how to expand retail, office and multifamily uses in the area. “Occupied rooftops is what drives almost every other use in the market,” Billie...

Alexa Wandersee/Port City Daily A nonprofit with a vision for a 20-acre, state-of-the-art athletic complex is seeking public input on refining the plan and hoping to create cultural unity across the city. Optimism Oasis is a sports and wellness facility planned to be located on McRae Street in Wilmington’s Northside...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press  A Cabarrus County man is suing his local board of commissioners for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights when they removed him from a meeting for “naming names” of county DSS employees during a public comment period. The Liberty Justice Center, a national litigation firm, filed...

John Staton/Wilmington StarNews A feature film with some big names attached is set to begin filming in Wilmington early next year. “Driver’s Ed,” about teenagers who take their high school’s driver-education car on an illegal road trip to visit the college-freshman girlfriend of one of their cohorts, is set to...

Olivia Gschwind/Indy Week Four law practices jointly pursuing a civil lawsuit against North Carolina State University and Monsanto say the university’s lack of transparency has failed to deliver answers to people who worked and studied in Poe Hall, a building suspected of being linked to hundreds of cancer cases and...

Cece Nunn/WilmingtonBiz   Avelo Airlines plans to establish a base at Wilmington International Airport and add three new nonstop destinations, including Nashville, Tennessee (BNA). The other two nonstop flights are to Rochester, New York (ROC), and Boston/Manchester, New Hampshire (MHT), beginning in April. Avelo’s base plans will create 50 jobs,...

Laura Leslie/WRAL News The majority of North Carolina voters support the use of the U.S. military on home soil to arrest and deport immigrants, according to a new poll from Meredith College. That was a campaign pledge made by president-elect Donald Trump, but it raises a host of thorny legal...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press  Meredith Brooke Bass, 44, grew up with Jefferson Griffin. A year ahead of him in school, she was best friends with one of his first cousins. Today, they’re still personal Facebook friends.  But Bass didn’t vote for Griffin for North Carolina Supreme Court; she opted for...

WFDD Radio Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is under scrutiny for its plans to impose time limits on anesthesia coverage. Doctors and policymakers are sounding the alarm after one of the country’s largest health insurers announced that starting next year, in certain states, it will no longer pay for anesthesia...

Joseph Politano/Apricitas Economics This Thanksgiving, many Americans ended up with more leftovers than usual—the use of recently discovered GLP-1 drugs is rapidly increasing as millions of people turn to them for help in battling obesity and cardiovascular diseases. These drugs work as appetite suppressants, helping patients regulate food intake by...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Wayne Lewis stood before state environmental regulatory officials Monday night and told the story about his wife. He described how, on an evening in 2009 just before she went to bed, she started vomiting blood. He detailed how the couple was shocked by her medical diagnosis:...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News While campaigning to become the state’s 75th governor in 2016, Roy Cooper said he wanted to help low-income North Carolinians who had been forced to forgo basic medical care because they could not afford health insurance. He finally achieved that goal six years later when North...

Elyse Apel/The Center Square  Legislators in Washington, D.C., have taken a number of steps over the past few days to push for insurance and pharmaceutical reforms to be passed before the end of the year. On Wednesday, a bicameral group of Republican and Democrat lawmakers held a press conference discussing...

Chantal Brown/Education NC The U.S. News & World Report released its updated lists ranking public North Carolina elementary, middle, and high schools for 2024. Rankings are based on factors such as student proficiency and performance. For schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade, rankings rely on student proficiency in reading and...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network The N.C. Coastal Land Trust has secured another grant to help with the nonprofit group’s push to protect a popular and much-loved piece of oceanfront land at the southern tip of Topsail Island. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has awarded the land trust $500,000 to...