Anne Blythe/NC Health News When Lee Zeldin, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced almost 10 months ago that the federal regulator would reevaluate research on potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water, he said “sound science” would be used to “advance our mission of protecting human and...

Port City Daily City officials and the local water authority are asking locals to tell the state “no” when it comes to one North Carolina town’s request to purchase water daily from the Cape Fear River to help supply the needs of its rapidly growing municipality. The Fuquay-Varina Interbasin Transfer...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city of High Point’s consideration of a new downtown service district tax drew more opposition and questions than support, according to surveys of businesses within the proposed boundaries. While respondents expressed satisfaction with current city levels of service, there was a lack of clarity...

The Watauga Democrat  A local business was among 10 across the state that were recently fined for price scanning errors. The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Standards Division fined 10 stores in nine counties for price scanning errors during the final quarter of 2025. The Staples located at...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio A majority of Charlotte City Council members say they want the North Carolina Department of Transportation to pause planning work for the Interstate 77 express toll lanes from uptown to the South Carolina line. Many westside residents are opposed to the project, which will add two toll...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press A jury trial for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ prosecution of former Swain County sheriff Curtis Cochran won’t be scheduled until at least this summer, according to the latest tribal court filings. Cochran, 73, had been set to appear in tribal court in Cherokee on...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Six of the nine Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education members are seeking re-election this year. But regaining trust amid a major financial crisis could be a challenge. The district unearthed a $46 million deficit last year, brought on by years of overspending and a series of accounting...

Sarah White & Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer In the Republican primary race for Haywood’s N.C. House Representative, money speaks louder than the campaign materials it pays for. In the final throes of the election, a flurry of flyers and commercials funded by an out-of-state PAC with ties to sports betting...

Shabnam Danesh/WNCN For the first time in two decades, Raleigh City Council and the Wake County Board of Commissioners held a joint meeting Tuesday night to tackle the affordable housing crisis and homelessness. According to county officials, Wake County is short more than 67,000 affordable housing units. Some households, particularly...

Rachel Keith/WHQR On Monday, New Hanover County Commissioners voted 3-2 along partisan lines to provide $1 million in support of a new city park off Greenville Loop Road. Democratic commissioners voted against the proposal over concerns about cost and transparency. The vote secures a three-way collaboration between the City of...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Emotions were high Wednesday night at a public hearing where the Town of Canton’s Board of Aldermen passed a 12-month moratorium on new data center development, server farms and cryptocurrency mining. The hearing was more preventative than reactive. It was prompted by inquiries from out-of-town...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News A fire marshal intervention that shut down a Wake County school last month has left families scrambling to find other school options, students learning virtually for weeks, and families wondering why no one had flagged the school as unsafe years ago. Records obtained by WRAL News and...

WSOCTV News Lancaster County has started narrowing down its search for a new school superintendent. The board of trustees is working with the state school board association in the search, officials said. The South Carolina School Board Association turned in a list of more than 20 applicants last week. Lancaster...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Wilmington-headquartered coffee chain Port City Java is now under new ownership. As of Jan. 30, the company began operating under the ownership of PCJ Holdings LLC, according to a news release from the company. A company representative declined to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition or the...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Dominion Energy’s 2.6-gigawatt offshore wind project based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, which was ordered by the Trump administration to stop work right before Christmas, has resumed the project and is now on track for completion by early 2027. But the 26-day shutdown of Coastal Virginia Offshore...