Kristen Blair/Education NC The North Carolina Charter Schools Review Board (CSRB) considered renewal terms for 38 public charter schools at its meeting on Monday, Jan. 13, ultimately approving renewals for 32 schools. Citing financial and noncompliance concerns, the CSRB voted to close one longtime Durham charter school, Community School of...

Sarah Krueger/WRAL News North Carolina has more state-maintained roads than any other state except Texas. Those roads are kept busy in large part by tractor-trailers. According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, more than 15 million tractor-trailers passed through the state last year. A specialized unit within the Highway...

Alexa Wandersee/Port City Daily After several years of struggling to keep bus drivers employed, a new plan of action to help Pender County Schools recruit and retain workers was on the table at a recent school board meeting. Staff presented the board of education with a plan that would require...

Elena Marsh/The (Southern Pines) Pilot The Moore County Land Use Plan Steering Committee is looking to finish its work and hand up recommendations to the Board of Commissioners this spring, but recently passed state legislation is adding complexity. Several members in the 30-person committee are wondering what the updated document...

Andrew Stuckey/WCHL Chapelboro The North Carolina General Assembly got the 2025 legislative session started earlier this month, and the leadership in both chambers and parties feature some new faces. House Minority Leader and District 54 Rep. Robert Reives spoke with 97.9 The Hill about some of those leadership changes. “I...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise High Point University has donated $250,000 to Business High Point for the development of the Washington Street Historic District, HPU President Nido Qubein announced Monday at the university’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast. Mayor Cyril Jefferson and Business High Point President and...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio Many athletic directors at the state’s public universities have gotten used to pinching pennies to run their departments. They expected the trend to continue this year, with some even projecting multimillion-dollar deficits or significant staff cuts. Instead, sports betting has become an unexpected fairy godmother, granting the...

Liz Bell/Education NC The Saturday in September after Hurricane Helene hit Watauga County, David Jackson found himself walking the aisles of the local Harris Teeter, the only grocery store in town with power. “We were all just kind of wandering around, not really with an agenda, just like, it was...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer North Carolina’s new attorney general, Jeff Jackson, made a stop in Canton on Thursday to discuss the ongoing litigation between the state and Pactiv Evergreen over millions of dollars in grant money the state wants back from the paper manufacturer. “This is one of the first...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio As the city of Charlotte was negotiating a multimillion-dollar deal to help build a new practice facility for the Charlotte Hornets, attorneys for the city had deep reservations about how economic development director Tracy Dodson was handling the talks. They wrote in internal emails that they thought...

Brian Murphy & Will Doran/WRAL News Republican President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday, vowing swift action on a host of issues that could impact nearly every American — and could have a particularly profound effect on North Carolina’s economy. Trump, just the second person to serve...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger OrthoCarolina, one of the nation’s largest independently owned orthopedic practices, is close to a deal to sell its physical therapy business to PT Solutions Physical Therapy, an Atlanta-based company backed by private equity, the Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News has learned. OrthoCarolina CEO and...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A Brunswick County town is in the final stages of finalizing a draft comprehensive plan to outline the community’s goals for growth and development. Officials and residents noted Southport’s ability to implement its vision is limited after losing authority of its extraterritorial jurisdiction to the county...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Between late September and the holiday break, Pasquotank County Election Director Janae Hedgepeth didn’t take a day off.  After her predecessor and the deputy director resigned just months before the 2024 general election, Hedgepeth quickly transitioned into the position — but found herself faced with one...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise High Point officials say the city is already compliant with provisions of a new state law aimed at expediting the approval process for new housing and other types of development. Senate Bill 166 imposed certain requirements on local governments that supporters describe as “regulatory reform”...