Tom Joyce/The Mount Airy News Come July, three years will have passed since the Main-Oak Building collapsed and sat unrepaired in Mount Airy’s central business district, but a resolution to its lingering unsafe condition could soon emerge in court. “It’s in the judicial system right now,” Mayor Jon Cawley disclosed...

Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Bryan Lewis, 59, of Forsyth County, found a lump on his neck over a year ago. He had just moved to North Carolina and didn’t have health insurance through his employer, so he signed up for a plan through the insurance marketplace created by the Affordable...

Katie Dukes/Education NC The number of licensed child care programs in North Carolina continues to decline following the expiration of federal pandemic-era funding. Since that time, the General Assembly has offered only partial and temporary extensions of stabilization grants. Those efforts have not been sufficient to halt or reverse the...

Paul Woolverton/CityView United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday signed a memo that says Fort Liberty will become Fort Bragg again, but this time it won’t be to honor Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, the Department of Defense announced. Instead, America’s largest Army post (in terms of population) will...

Brian Murphy/WRAL News The long-anticipated development project around Raleigh’s Lenovo Center moved one step closer to becoming reality Tuesday when the city’s Planning Commission unanimously approved the site’s rezoning application. But dozens of students and leaders from Cardinal Gibbons, the private Catholic high school that sits across the street, attended...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio Last month, Canadian scholars Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva were preparing to travel as part of a routine and time-worn activity for academic authors: giving a book talk at an event in Washington, D.C. In their case, the book is: “The End of College Football: On the...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A series of new river gauges providing real-time water levels went online just days before Helene and is credited with saving lives along the Pigeon. It is now being expanded even more, including new gauges in Waynesville and Maggie Valley, which also saw flooding this time...

WFDD Radio By now, many economists are hoarse screaming that higher tariffs and a trade war will raise prices and hurt the U.S. economy. But many Americans aren’t listening. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University, conducted in late January, found that 42% of Americans believe tariffs will help the U.S....

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro UNC-Chapel Hill is suspending part of its mandatory curriculum around diversity to avoid any potential noncompliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order scrubbing the federal government’s recognition and participation in such efforts. UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and Provost Chris Clemens shared a message with the campus community...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A coastal town in Brunswick County is facing the budget crunch, prompting its city manager to propose a “shared sacrifice strategy” to shore up hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of next fiscal year. After less than a year in the job, Southport City Manager Stuart...

Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Amid a flurry of post-inaugural executive orders that look to halt, eliminate or place conditions on certain swaths of federal funding, Sandhills Community College Trustee Steve Woodward, last week, outlined a series of presidential efforts he said could potentially affect the college. Woodward’s presentation to...

Will Atwater/NC Health News Well before Helene’s floodwaters reached western North Carolina, an overwhelmed U.S. insurance market was already dropping coverage in places that are prone to disaster — and even in towns and cities that aren’t. But as the number and intensity of natural disasters increase, the insurance industry...

WCHL Chapelboro UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts joined 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck on Friday, Jan. 31 for a wide-ranging interview checking in as the university’s spring semester got started. The pair discussed some of the biggest news from the federal government as President Donald Trump began his second term with...

Reems Landreth/WCNC News North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has fined UnitedHealthcare $3.4 million for violations in claims handling practices involving balance billing, the state Department of Insurance announced last week. The fine stems from a four-year investigation that revealed UnitedHealthcare failed to protect members from unexpected out-of-network charges, particularly...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Standing near the top of a 4,000-foot ridge above Chambers Cove, geologist Jennifer Bauer turns away from the 30-degree slope we’re climbing and looks out over the valley peeking through the trees that surround us. “It really is a nice view,” she says, smiling the smile...