Aidan Lockhart/The Daily Tar Heel The School of Civic Life and Leadership, which is offering classes for the first time this semester, has undergone significant faculty turnover since its inception. The nine inaugural faculty members of the school were announced in an email by Jim White, dean of the College...

Olivia Neeley/The Wilson Times Wilson Medical Center’s interim CEO is anticipating another immediate jeopardy status from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services following an August visit for a complaint investigation at the facility. Lindy White said the hospital took immediate corrective action following a weeklong unannounced visit from the...

Paul Woolverton/CityView It’s now expected to cost almost $111.2 million for the Fayetteville Public Works Commission to build a filter system to extract PFAS “forever chemicals” from its drinking water, according to PWC documents. This is $30.2 million more than a previous estimate of $80 million. The PWC is Fayetteville’s...

Randy Foster/Cherokee Scout A long-awaited meeting between county commissioners and school board members Monday night included sometimes angry comments from the public and an agreement for further meetings to map out the future for the building-rich, cash-poor school system. Cherokee County Schools has 13 schools spread out over 12 campuses,...

Liz Bell/Education NC Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday vetoed House Bill 10, the “mini budget” bill Republican legislators passed last week to clear waitlists for the private school voucher program, among other items. “We know that private school vouchers are the biggest threat to public schools in decades,” Cooper...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily The state’s chief administrative judge ruled against the Department of Environmental Quality in a dispute over regulation of a toxic chemical contaminating the tri-county region. Some critics argue the decision may also present a conflict of interest. Sandra Van der Vaart is the spouse of Chief...

Jane Winik/Carolina Public Press Pressure is mounting on HCA’s management of Mission Health in Asheville from all sides. The hospital responded with a change in leadership this week. This round of renewed urgency comes from a new Buncombe County lawsuit and unproductive bargaining with the nurses union. The union indicated...

Nathan McDermott/The Bulwark North Carolina gubernatorial candidate and current lieutenant governor Mark Robinson, already under fire for a series of racist remarks, once waxed nostalgically about the Jim Crow era of intense segregation. “During Jim Crow, you can go back and you can look at it and the record will...

Paul Specht/WRAL News A series of racist and lewd posts on a pornographic website more than a decade ago, unveiled last week, have produced a surreal scenario: The election to decide the next leader of the free world could be upended by a down-ballot candidate in the ninth-largest state in...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The UNC Board of Trustees met Wednesday and Thursday in the Spangler Center in Chapel Hill for its regular bi-monthly meeting — the first of which since Lee Roberts was formally selected as Carolina’s permanent chancellor. Though he took over as interim chancellor in January, Roberts still...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Republican incumbent Sen. Michael Lee and Democratic challenger David Hill outlined their policy positions and priorities Thursday morning during the Greater Wilmington Business Journal’s Power Breakfast: Election 2024. The two are locked in a contentious race to represent District 7 – an area encompassing much of New Hanover...

Mary Helen Moore/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Consultant Robin Hunden began his presentation Thursday with a hail of compliments for Durham. “You’re so unique and authentic as a destination,” Hunden told the City Council, praising the restaurant scene and thriving downtown. Then came the tough love. The Durham Convention Center,...

Tyler Davis/The (Henderson) Daily Dispatch Family members of Javion Magee and civil rights attorneys representing them held a brief press conference outside of Vance County Courthouse Wednesday afternoon. Minutes prior, the family had been in the Vance County Sheriff’s Office, meeting with Sheriff Curtis Brame and command staff, reviewing what...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Bald Head Island ferry passengers may likely see a change to the ferry schedule later this year, but not one that would bump hourly departures to every 90 minutes. Groups representing ferry passengers have reached a settlement with Bald Head Island Transportation Inc. to operate on...

Andrew Kaczynski & Em Steck/CNN Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating...