Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog A Mission Hospital pharmacy program that provides and tracks patients’ medications to ensure their safety has been plagued by nearly constant turnover for years, Asheville Watchdog has learned. Despite warnings from a supervisor about dangerous errors that could result from staff departures, hospital leadership did not...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio Nearly two weeks after a cyber attack crippled much of Winston-Salem’s online infrastructure, city officials still don’t know when services will be restored. The December 26 incident shut down the online utility bill pay system and CityLink phone service. At a City Council meeting Monday, Winston-Salem City...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News A man initially convicted in a Cherokee Tribal Court for playing a role in a debilitating December 2019 ransomware attack is suing the tribe. Cody Long, the tribe’s former lead systems administrator for its Office of Information and Technology, was held in jail for 454 days...

Shea Carver/Port City Daily An area of North Fourth Street in Wilmington could be welcoming patrons for the first time citywide to stroll through 10 blocks with open containers of alcohol as part of a new pilot program. Wilmington City Council signed off 4-2 (Kevin Spears and Salette Andrews dissenting)...

Cole Sams/CBS 17 News With 2025 now underway, NC By Train will try to build on the record growth they experienced in 2024. According to the Rail Division of the NC DOT, the state-supported Amtrak service — known as NC By Train — carried over 720,000 passengers in 2024. This...

Nolan McKendry/The Center Square  Lawmakers, free speech advocates and pornography sites across the country are waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on Texas’ House Bill 1181. The high court will hear arguments on Jan. 15 in what could be a landmark case deciding the fate of more than...

Will Doran/WRAL News One of the nation’s biggest growers of sweet potatoes has been put into receivership after defaulting on more than $40 million in loans, Nash County court records show. Now the state senator whose family owns the farm says the bank has been overly aggressive, alleging that it...

Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times The city estimates $17 million-$18 million in revenue loss for the current fiscal year due to impacts from Tropical Storm Helene, with the biggest hits coming out of its water resources fund. The estimate does not include property tax losses, which are still being assessed by...

Emily Vespa & Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger Faced with a growing health care worker shortage and provider burnout, some North Carolina health care leaders have said there is great promise in artificial intelligence systems. The state’s health care systems have been early adopters of AI tools —...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina General Assembly elections were finalized Monday as officials issued certificates to the winners in three close legislative races from November that later became subject to recounts and formal protests. This ministerial action by election administrators also confirms that Republicans have lost their veto-proof...

WFDD Radio The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that it is suing a Tennessee-based mortgage lender owned by Berkshire Hathaway, accusing the company of predatory practices aimed at steering borrowers into manufactured homes they could not afford. The CFPB said that Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance often disregarded evidence...

Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro UNC students return to class this week to begin the spring semester – and as always, there is an ongoing debate over what should and shouldn’t be taught in the classroom. Professors say they are feeling pressure to avoid discussing issues of structural inequity – and to...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily The International Association of Fire Fighters is requesting the county remove personnel from a Castle Hayne fire station after finding a high concentration of severe health issues among the facility’s personnel. The county maintains it has taken necessary action to ensure safety. The International Association of...

Jimmy Potts/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A North Carolina Department of Transportation worker wore multiple hats during Hurricane Helene and is a part of one of the most vital parts of the reconstruction effort — rebuilding the roads. When NC DOT Assistant Resident Engineer Daniel Ross headed to work the morning of...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise Telisha Roberts’ experience in the business world has run the gamut. She started out working at her family’s dry cleaners in her native Winston-Salem and later spent 26 years in the corporate world, including a stint as an executive with tobacco giant Reynolds American. She’s...