Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Salem Academy and College will be partnering with Mayfair Hospitality Group to renovate a nearly 100-year-old vacant educational building into a boutique hotel. The project is expected to generate $1 million annually. The hotel, which has yet to be named, will join the likes of The Inn...

Wayne Parry/The Associated Press Opponents of offshore wind energy projects expect President-elect Donald Trump to kill an industry he has vowed to end on the first day he returns to the White House. But it might not be that easy. Many of the largest offshore wind companies put a brave...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC With another school year underway, public school districts around North Carolina have recently made headlines. From early college proposals to calendar lawsuits, here’s a brief overview of what you need to know about the happenings across the state. Plus, at the end of the article, a...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press North Carolina is establishing itself as an indispensable loop on the so-called “battery belt” of southeastern states. Forge Battery’s gigafactory in Morrisville was already under construction — and set to be operational by 2026 — when the company received a $100 million grant from the...

Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio Monique Pierre, the Asheville Housing Authority’s CEO and President, was fired yesterday, according to Mayor Esther Manheimer. Manheimer confirmed the firing to BPR on Friday afternoon, after the Asheville Citizen-Times first reported the news. In a text message, she wrote that the housing authority had...

Paige Twenter/Becker’s Hospital Review GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro might influence the volume of all-cause hospital admissions and bariatric surgeries, two studies suggest. Researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently found a 132.6% increase in GLP-1 prescriptions and a 25.6% decline in bariatric surgeries...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News When your house is flooded and all your soggy belongings are piled on the street in front of your home, having a cavity or a toothache might seem like a small problem. But it could become a bigger problem for residents of Avery County, where one...

Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has officially removed Wilson Medical Center’s immediate jeopardy status, hospital officials say. Wilson Medical Center interim CEO Lindy White said the hospital received an official notification from CMS about the immediate jeopardy status removal on Oct. 30. The...

Hannah McLeod/Smoky Mountain News  The Water Quality Advisory Committee has released its latest report detailing potential impacts of revising the Macon County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance — the last of three such floodplain ordinances the county has considered revising this year. The report comes just over a month after flooding...

Derek Draplin/The Center Square The long rebuilding process is just beginning for many in Asheville, North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene devastated the community. In Asheville, North Carolina, the impact of severe flooding lingers weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated local communities. Relief organizations, including Samaritan’s Purse from nearby Boone, have mobilized...

Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald A joint meeting of officials from Sanford, Broadway and Lee County on Thursday morning included an update about development in the area over the past five years. Marshall Downey, planning director for Sanford, noted that 10,927 single-family residential lots were approved in Sanford from 2020...

Will Hofmann/Asheville Citizen Times In late September, Shelia Yarborough made her way from her quaint Deaverview apartment in West Asheville to the Buncombe County Courthouse downtown. She was meeting with her lawyer to work out an eviction proceeding for nonpayment of rent ordered by the city housing authority. A resident...

Mebane Rash/Education NC In 2023, the N.C. General Assembly passed a state budget that included what Republicans called the “largest expansion of school choice” in 10 years. Opportunity Scholarships are state-funded vouchers that families can use to pay for eligible private schools. You can see the current list of eligible...

The Washington Post There’s a tranquility to western North Carolina’s forests. The quiet here is part of the reason Leo Temko and Janice Barnes chose a hillside northeast of Asheville as an escape from New York City, where they spend half their time. Mountainsides draped in the green of tulip...

Camdyn Bruce/Greensboro News & Record Former Republican Bill Goebel denies intentionally playing the role of spoiler in running unaffiliated in a three-way race that saw Democratic challenger David Coates unseat incumbent Republican Michael Logan on the Guilford County Board of Education. “I don’t run to sabotage anybody,” Goebel said in...