The Greater Fayetteville Business Journal According to a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) report, Ryder Trucks plans to lay off 73 workers at its Fayetteville location at 2486 Gillespie St., effective Oct. 12, 2026. Operations at the site are expected to continue. The new logistics provider has expressed interest...

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company, a North Carolina-based soft drink company with a facility in Colfax, North Carolina, will pay $36,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. According to the lawsuit, a...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News North Carolina education and public safety leaders are increasingly taking steps to improve school safety — an issue that’s top of mind for families and students, too, who’d rather focus on learning in school than on well-being. WRAL News found generally declining rates of criminal offenses reported...

Richard Stradling/The Raleigh News & Observer With a multi-year, $2.5 billion expansion underway, Raleigh-Durham International Airport is making a couple of modest changes to increase capacity at its smaller passenger terminal. RDU will add about 1,600 square feet to the lobby of Terminal 1 to make room for three additional...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio With an aging grid and a wave of incoming data centers, could schools help solve North Carolina’s energy crunch? Sustainability think tank Frontier Group and advocacy group Environment North Carolina released a report that found that the state’s schools could host 900 megawatts of solar energy. That’s...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog The hearing Wednesday at Asheville-Buncombe Technical College was a routine part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) certificate of need process. It was an opportunity for state regulators to hear public comments and presentations on the competing proposals before them. But today,...

KFF Health News Hospitals across the U.S. are trying to reduce maternal deaths and complications after pregnancies using one small tool: a silicone wristband stamped with the declaration “I Gave Birth.” The wristbands are part of a growing initiative first launched by North Carolina-based ECU Health as Congress sought to...

Chantal Brown/Education NC The U.S. News & World Report released its updated rankings on Aug. 18 of public North Carolina high schools for the 2026-27 academic year based on several student performance indicators. The results come after evaluating about 27,000 eligible public high schools across the country, with nearly 18,000...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News North Carolina is home to more than 100 higher education institutions. They include large research universities, small private liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, single-gender colleges, community colleges, and others. Some focus on workforce pipeline training, others are attached to enormous healthcare systems, and several promote being a place...

Woody Cain/WFAE Radio The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization continues to wrestle with a looming $60 million payback to the state for I-77 toll lanes planning if it remains opposed to the project. At the group’s meeting Wednesday night, Charlotte City Council member Ed Driggs said the council’s transportation committee...

Monica Casey/WRAL News  Durham City Council members will hear a report on the final Vision Plan for the future of the Durham Freeway on Thursday. The freeway was built in the 1970s to connect Research Triangle Park to central Durham, but the path destroyed historic Black communities, including some of...

Sophia DePhillips/Port City Daily  Water was at the center of discussion this week at the Pender County commissioners’ meeting. Ideas on how to connect utilities to a rural western part of the county were broached, as was a 20-year master plan to determine where water is needed and the process...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer As Canton’s paper mill is disassembled piece by piece, the uncertainty of its future looms larger than the out-of-service silos still standing on the property. No one yet knows what will become of the sprawling site. But before anything can take root, the old equipment and...

Brad Rich/Coastal Review Online Marine scientists and others at the University of North Carolina Wilmington are waiting anxiously for the arrival of a new $7.5 million, state-funded research vessel that will greatly enhance research capabilities and learning opportunities for students. While the school’s marine science students hail from far-flung locations,...

Dasia Williams/CityView Cumberland County Schools expects to spend nearly $4.5 million this school year to maintain a layered security network that includes school resource officers, traffic control officers, and unarmed security guards across the district. The Cumberland County Board of Education approved four school safety agreements on June 9 that...