Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city of High Point is advancing its plans to replace a major piece of infrastructure at one of its water-supply lakes. The City Council on Monday approved a request from staff to award a $3.73 million contract to Schnabel Engineering South of Greensboro to...

Robin Kanady/Queen City News Leaders of Lutheran Services Carolinas, an organization that helps legal refugees entering the country, say their national partners received a cease-and-desist order not to help refugees that have just entered the country under new executive orders. Although some of President Donald Trump’s orders have been walked...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Fewer North Carolina children are dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, according to a new report by a retired leader of the state’s health system whose career focused on the well-being of children. The report also showed an even larger decline over the...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News A group of law enforcement officers, elected officials and concerned citizens is renewing its years-long effort to get a series of new laws through the General Assembly this year. While previous efforts came in the form of a series of shorter bills, the latest attempt to...

Michael Koh/WCHL Chapelboro The newest financial report from the UNC athletic department to the NCAA, chronicling the department’s funds for the 2023-24 academic year, shows record-high revenue numbers for the school. In total, the department reported approximately $164.4 million in revenue against approximately $155.9 million in total expenses for an...

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice The nearly hour-long presentation of the Dare Housing Task Force’s recent 2024 report at the Feb. 3 Dare County Board of Commissioners meeting did more than lay out the daunting obstacles to home ownership in Dare County. It also triggered an extensive discussion on how to...

Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Amanda Watson was diagnosed with breast cancer three weeks after having an emergency cesarean section to deliver her second son. Her test results showed she had one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, with a high recurrence rate and low survival rate. The following...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh North Carolina has the third highest number of birds affected by avian influenza in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Why it matters: The number of reported avian flu outbreaks across the U.S. has increased significantly in recent weeks, with more egg-producing chickens being...

Cory Turner/WUNC Radio The Trump administration is exploring dramatic cuts to programs and staff at the U.S. Department of Education, including executive action shuttering department programs that are not protected by law and calling on Congress to close the department entirely. The executive action could come as early as this...

WRAL News Children, already traumatized by something in their home life, are spending years in North Carolina’s foster care system after intervention from their local Department of Social Services. Records show some of those children are even shuffled between nearly two dozen homes. Now a new federal lawsuit wants the...

Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer With President Trump’s promise to streamline government and curb spending, Haywood County’s Congressional House representative said key moves are already in the works, including streamlining the process for budget cutting and identifying allocations for the chopping block. Chuck Edwards, R-Hendersonville, is a member of the House...

Frank Langfitt/WFAE Radio The Sunday after Donald Trump won a second term, Pastor Ben Boswell took to the pulpit at Myers Park Baptist, a liberal church in Charlotte, and delivered the sort of blunt, provocative sermon for which he is well known. Boswell likened the moment to what he called...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A standing-room-only crowd came to the City Council meeting Monday to weigh in on a request from High Point University to relocate a section of the city’s greenway around the campus. A total of 43 people spoke on a proposal by HPU that would close...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The first of two new appointments to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees was made recently, as the UNC System Board of Governors made its selection of Ritch Allison to replace Dave Boliek. Allison — who was formally selected on Thursday and announced Friday by the system’s flagship...

Wes Platt/Southpoint Access Many Mt. Moriah Road residents may be feeling some relief today after the Durham City Council voted unanimously Monday night to oppose the Moriah Ridge development that would straddle Durham and Orange county lines. The project, proposed by M/I Homes of Raleigh, would’ve brought 1,000 apartments, townhouses,...