Lora Lavigne/WRAL News The City of Raleigh is moving forward with the Western Corridor of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line. The Western corridor is approximately 12 miles. It is proposed to operate in both dedicated transit lanes and mixed traffic between the GoRaleigh station in downtown Raleigh and downtown...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio The car line at Sherwood Githens Middle School wrapped out to the street on Monday morning. At 8 a.m., the school doors opened and for the next half hour, students streamed out of cars. Millicent Rogers, chair of Durham Public Schools’ board of education, was one of...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The New Hanover County Commissioners had the swearing-in of its new members Monday, while also recognizing the work of an exiting member who has served for 16 years. Jonthan Barfield Jr. — a commissioner since 2008 who lost his re-bid this year’s election — received an...

Carolina Journal The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit alleging that Pinehurst officials broke the state’s open-meetings law in 2021 by conducting business via email. Major state media outlets had filed paperwork earlier this year supporting plaintiffs in the case. Former Pinehurst Village Council member Kevin Drum...

Gilat Melamed/CBS 17 News The City of Raleigh has new leadership. Mayor Janet Cowell was sworn-in Monday evening alongside the City Council. The new mayor’s top two priorities have been major focal points in the city in recent years: housing and public safety. Cowell said she’s already had conversations with...

Joseph Williams/The (Whiteville) News Reporter Whiteville City Council rejected a request Tuesday night that would have expanded where stores can operate in town, citing concerns about retail businesses opening next to residential properties. Despite voting down the measure, council expressed interest in permitting more properties for retail use on a...

Will Doran/WRAL News (Editor’s note: Griffin is challenging 60k ballots statewide, not just in Wake County.) The Wake County Board of Elections is meeting Monday to consider claims that it improperly counted some ballots in this year’s elections. The claims were made by Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for a...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog Mission Health has permanently closed Asheville Specialty Hospital, the only long-term acute care hospital in western North Carolina, less than two months after suspending its services following Tropical Storm Helene. “We have made the difficult decision to not reopen Asheville Specialty Hospital, a small, long-term acute...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh Saint Augustine’s University, a historically Black college near downtown Raleigh, has entered into a partnership with a sports and mixed-use development company as part of effort to address its severe financial challenges. Why it matters: Details on the what the partnership with 50 Plus 1 Sports entails...

Paige Twenter/Becker’s Hospital Review Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was recently nominated to lead HHS during Donald Trump’s second presidency, has cast doubt on Ozempic’s potential health effects. The FDA approved the injectable medicine to treat Type 2 diabetes in 2017, and it could be approved to treat kidney disease-related...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Almost a year after its internal publication, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has made public a report detailing the results of comprehensive ground and surface water sampling required at and around the site on which the now shut-down Pactiv Evergreen papermill sits. In the...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Back in the spring of 2023, the Moore County School Board spent hours hearing a lively and emotional crowd speak for and against a local Parents’ Bill of Rights. The policy, among other things, requires teachers to tell parents when students are using different pronouns. Hannah Parker...

Nick Stevens/HighSchoolOT Should the N.C. High School Athletic Association designate separate playoffs for schools that do not have a defined attendance zone set by a local school district? That is the question one school is hoping the NCHSAA Board of Directors will ask its member schools. Dr. Jonathan Tribula of...

Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise City officials say they’ve made changes to the way High Point seeks to engage with minority and women-owned businesses. MWBE coordinator Cynthia Barnes told a City Council committee last week that she’s revised outdated bid solicitation documents the city sends out when it’s seeking vendors to...

Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News Another international travel option will soon be offered to those flying out of the Triangle area. Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) announced Monday that Air Canada will begin nonstop flights to Vancouver International Airport in June 2025. “Triangle travelers are receiving a welcome gift this holiday season...