The Associated Press More than 600,000 people have enrolled in North Carolina’s new Medicaid coverage for low-income adults about a year after the program’s expansion, reaching the state’s enrollment goal for the program in about half the time that was originally projected, the governor’s office announced on Monday. Democratic Gov....

Reuters  Japanese auto giants Honda Motor and Nissan Motor will start negotiations to merge as they face growing competition from bigger global electric vehicle makers, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Tuesday. The carmakers have increased ties in recent months as they wrestle with the changing EV landscape. Heavy competition from...

Lisbeth Ramirez/ABC 45 News “We got Caesars, we got somewhere to go,” said Sadie Moon, a spectator of the new casino. The wait for Caesars Virginia is over. Today marks the grand opening of the casino. Money is set to roll in, not only for gamblers’ pockets but for Rockingham...

Bradley George/WUNC Radio Property owners in Durham’s Hayti neighborhood will get some help with repairs, thanks to a federal grant. The City Council voted Monday to spend about $1.7 million to assist home and business owners along the Fayetteville Street corridor. Housing code administrator Clarence Harris said his department has...

Iris Seaton/Asheville Citizen Times As of Dec. 16, 19 new National Historic Landmarks were announced by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, each of which reflects the importance of the sites in sharing the diverse history of the United States. This year, the Blue Ridge Parkway was added. “As America’s...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press David Easterling, a NOAA climate scientist, didn’t think much about the rainfall forecast until his wife called him on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 24, asking whether he’d seen the weather outlook. Hours later, rain began falling. Over the next three days, it drenched the region,...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News The remnants of Hurricane Helene destroyed thousands of homes during its catastrophic sweep through western North Carolina in September, leaving many people without a fixed residence in a region where homelessness was already on the rise. The storm displaced residents like Bonnie Goggins Jones, whose mobile...

Jenny Callison/WilmingtonBiz The arrival of Cincinnati, Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank in Wilmington is the latest in a string of financial institutions that have expanded their footprint into the Port City environs. In early December, the bank held an official opening in its Myrtle Grove location, a remodeled former SunTrust branch....

Santiago Ochoa/WFDD Radio Michelle Griffin is a realtor based in Banner Elk. She’s seen the area’s housing market shift in real-time after Helene. After witnessing hundreds of houses washed away or damaged beyond recognition, Griffin says spooked buyers and sellers have been calling her to rid themselves of what were...

Casey Quinlan/NC Newsline A rise in food prices makes for a less than merry holiday season. Grocery prices rose 0.4% in November, according to the Consumer Price Index, released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Eggs made one of the biggest jumps at 8.2% over the month,...

Lora Lavigne, WRAL Anchor and Reporter Durham Public Schools is working to address an ongoing bus driver shortage. A Durham County Commissioner is now chipping in, striving to be apart of the solution. “We’ve always struggled with drivers. We’ve always struggled with trying to keep and retain our bus drivers...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Fayetteville State University held a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday for its new College of Education building. With the new space, the university hopes to increase its enrollment of students in the College of Education and add new bachelor and graduate degree programs for them, officials said. Fayetteville...

Felicia Sonmez/WFAE Radio The number of passengers traveling through Asheville Regional Airport dropped sharply in October, according to figures released Friday by the airport authority board. Overall passenger traffic numbers in October 2024 were down about 53% compared to October 2023. Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority President and CEO Lew...

Jimmy Potts/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The Maggie Valley Police Department issued more than 40 citations last week for commercial trucks illegally traversing U.S. 19 over Soco Gap. Trucks seeking a detour around the closed section of I-40 are finding their way to Maggie and attempting to take the narrow, steep, curvy,...

Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise An $18.5 million federal grant will advance several redevelopment initiatives in south High Point. The Southwest Renewal Foundation has been selected as one of 105 recipients of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “community change grant,” the EPA announced Thursday. The nonprofit was the lead applicant for...