Paul Garber/WFDD Radio The High Point Furniture Market is winding down the second of its biannual events this week, and it comes with the return of a major brand founded in North Carolina. Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams abruptly ended operations and shut down its factory in Taylorsville in August...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger Five hospitals responsible for nearly all of North Carolina’s lawsuits filed against patients for medical debt have committed to erasing all of their existing judgments, The Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News has learned. Atrium Health, the state’s largest health care system, announced in September...

Mary Helen Moore/The News & Observer Durham County Manager Kimberly Sowell has resigned after over six weeks of unexplained paid leave. County commissioners emerged from a closed session meeting around 9:15 p.m. Monday and voted unanimously to accept her resignation, effective immediately. Chair Nida Allam and County Attorney Larissa Williamson...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The washed out road and bridge leading to Kit Gruelle’s house was in such bad shape, she and her Upper Crabtree neighbors feared they might be stranded for days if not weeks. “It was scary because what if someone had a medical emergency, we were trapped,”...

John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog Asheville Water Resources faces “a really big week” in its effort to reduce the murkiness in its North Fork Reservoir, department spokesperson Clay Chandler said Monday. Chandler said at the daily Buncombe County Helene briefing that a type of in-lake filtration system — three layers of suspended...

Liz Bell & Katie Dukes/Education NC Unlike North Carolina’s K-12 schools or community colleges, child care programs aren’t consolidated under a public system. That makes it harder for early childhood programs to acquire funding and coordinate recovery from disasters such as Hurricane Helene, creating short- and long-term effects on children,...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio East Carolina University and UNC-Chapel Hill are partnering on a multimillion dollar renewable energy project for coastal communities. It will last for five years, and researchers from the two public universities will work to improve marine technology in the town of Nags Head. The project will have...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Student cellphone use and education technology are going under review in Wake County schools. The Wake County school system plans to send out a districtwide survey on the issues as early as next month. District officials plan to present their survey plans to the Wake school board’s...

Jonathan M. Gitlin/ARS Technica Today, Polestar electric vehicles gained access to the Tesla Supercharger network. That means US Polestar drivers have access to 17,800 more DC fast chargers than they did yesterday—once they get a NACS adapter, which can also be ordered today from their local Polestar service point. But...

Kara Fohner/Gaston Gazette A federal lawsuit filed against the Gaston County Police Department by two Black police officers alleges that the police department repeatedly discriminated against the two officers by passing them over for promotions in favor of less qualified white candidates. Gaston County Police  officer Nick Jamoulis and Cpt....

Rachel Baldauf/Border Belt Independent Grace Gerberry has been riding horses since she was big enough to sit up on one. When it came time to choose a college, a Google search led her to St. Andrews University in North Carolina. After talking with the roughly 40 members of the school’s...

WRAL News Raleigh is going to have a new mayor in the coming weeks. Five people are vying to replace outgoing Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin (listed in alphabetical order by last name): Janet Cowell, former North Carolina State Treasurer and former Dix Park Conservancy President Paul Fitts, mortgage lender. Ran for...

Emily Thomas/Education NC Sunday, Oct. 27 marks one month since Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina. While recovery efforts are underway, needs will continue to surface in the weeks and months ahead — everything from professional counseling to dehumidifiers to warm clothing as the winter months approach. As community...

Bethany Greene & Matthew Martin/Fed Reserve Bank of Richmond As a regional Reserve Bank, we keep a pulse on the Fifth District economy using a variety of sources, including anecdotal information from contacts in our region. To supplement our initial analysis on the economic impact of Hurricane Helene, we’ve compiled...

Patrick George/InsideEVs The Volkswagen Group has big plans for its new by-America, for-America extended range EV subsidiary, Scout Motors. However, those plans won’t include one longtime ally: its U.S. dealership network. As InsideEVs reported yesterday, one of the biggest announcements in the Scout debut is that the revived brand won’t...