Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline Health insurance coverage on which millions of Americans rely — Medicaid and plans purchased through the Affordable Care Act — were scarcely mentioned during the presidential campaign but may face extensive changes in President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania last month, House...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh Raleigh is on the verge of updating its rules around boarding houses and co-living spaces as part of the city council’s wide-ranging efforts to increase its housing supply. Why it matters: Raleigh has a shortage of housing to match its booming population, studies have found. The city...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Like so many businesses in Western North Carolina, Haywood Builders in Waynesville are still reeling a bit after Helene’s wrath brought devastation to local communities. The floodwaters raced through the business, damaging some buildings, but mostly damaging inventory. “It was a hell of a thing —...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro Construction is well underway for the Sancar Scholars Residence (SSR) in Chapel Hill. Located at Velma Road and looking over the Sancar Turkish Cultural and Community Center (STCCC), it will provide accommodations for visiting Turkish scholars and students. Since 2007, the Aziz and Gwen Sancar Foundation (AGSF)...

WECT New Hanover County Manager Chris Coudriet has informed county commissioners that the county attorney’s office has suggested the county elections office retain outside legal counsel related to the counting of absentee-by-mail ballots in the recent General Election. In an email Monday to commissioners, Coudriet wrote: “In prior rulings, courts...

Andrew R. Jones & Victoria A. Ifatusin/Asheville Watchdog Six weeks after Tropical Storm Helene, sludge from roiling floodwaters has turned into sunbaked dust, brought on by an extended warm, dry spell and repair crews trying to make Asheville and surrounding areas whole again. Overall particulate levels have not been unhealthy,...

Jamie L. LaReau & Eric D. Lawrence/Detroit Free Press The first car dealer ever elected to the U.S. Senate says the Trump agenda for the U.S. auto industry is one that, if enacted, would upend the strategy Detroit’s automakers have spent billions of dollars pursuing: The transition to electric cars....

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Washington Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in northeastern North Carolina, has once again filed for bankruptcy. The hospital in Plymouth is in debt to utility companies, health care service vendors and regional governmental bodies. The trouble Washington Regional finds itself in is...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A campaign opposing the proposal of a 4,030-unit development in Castle Hayne is gaining traction, as the county begins to assess a by-right project poised to sprawl across 4,039 acres of land. Meanwhile, state officials designated an adjacent property as a top priority inactive hazardous waste...

Michelle R. Smith/The Associated Press A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration. Howard Lutnick echoed a...

The Carolina Journal The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA) has put out a statement condemning the allegations of recorded comments by Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, calling his words “inflammatory, racially derogatory, insulting, and offensive.” Last week Chief Deputy Kevin Canty of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office resigned from his...

Will Doran/WRAL News North Carolina voters may have rejected her at the ballot box Tuesday, but Michele Morrow is hoping President-elect Donald Trump won’t when he takes office in January. Morrow, a Republican homeschooling advocate who lost to Democrat Mo Green in the race to become North Carolina’s superintendent of...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A woman who initially survived a 100-foot tumble after driving over the edge of a missing section of Interstate 40 has since died from her injuries. The driver, a 62-year-old woman from Southern Pines, drove around barricades to access a section of I-40 with numerous washed-out...

Mitchell Northam/WUNC Radio Dawn Staley has seen women’s basketball at its apex in Charlotte. For seven of the eight seasons that the Charlotte Sting — one of the original teams in the Women’s National Basketball Association — existed, Staley was playing point guard in a teal-and-purple jersey, making four all-star...

Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise High Point police plan to deploy mental health professionals instead of officers to respond to some calls for service. The department will convert three vacant sworn positions to behavioral health specialist and crisis counselor jobs filled by civilians who can be dispatched to non-violent incidents. This...