Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Almost a year after its internal publication, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has made public a report detailing the results of comprehensive ground and surface water sampling required at and around the site on which the now shut-down Pactiv Evergreen papermill sits. In the...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Back in the spring of 2023, the Moore County School Board spent hours hearing a lively and emotional crowd speak for and against a local Parents’ Bill of Rights. The policy, among other things, requires teachers to tell parents when students are using different pronouns. Hannah Parker...

Nick Stevens/HighSchoolOT Should the N.C. High School Athletic Association designate separate playoffs for schools that do not have a defined attendance zone set by a local school district? That is the question one school is hoping the NCHSAA Board of Directors will ask its member schools. Dr. Jonathan Tribula of...

Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise City officials say they’ve made changes to the way High Point seeks to engage with minority and women-owned businesses. MWBE coordinator Cynthia Barnes told a City Council committee last week that she’s revised outdated bid solicitation documents the city sends out when it’s seeking vendors to...

Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News Another international travel option will soon be offered to those flying out of the Triangle area. Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) announced Monday that Air Canada will begin nonstop flights to Vancouver International Airport in June 2025. “Triangle travelers are receiving a welcome gift this holiday season...

Sofia DiStefano/Niner Times Following the closures of UNC Charlotte’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) related offices, Charlotte’s Leadership & Community Engagement (LCE) office has stepped into the spotlight as a presumed recipient of resources and funding previously used for DEI. In its early days, the LCE office was a minor...

Will Doran/WRAL News Only two months after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina in the worst natural disaster to hit the region in modern history, the state’s recovery efforts have become bogged down by political infighting and, critics say, overshadowed by other priorities. It’s a contrast with Washington, where the...

The Associated Press When Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigned in North Carolina, both candidates courted a state-recognized tribe there whose 55,000 members could have helped tip the swing state. Trump in September promised that he would sign legislation to grant federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe, a distinction that...

Caroline Parker/EducationNC Doug Thomas has been driving a bus for Yancey County Schools (YCS) for three years. He starts his day running a route and after dropping students off, he heads to East Yancey Middle School where is he one of two custodians. Many of the roads on his route...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio As a bitingly cold wind blew through the Nolichucky Gorge, raft guides Jubal Roe, Dennis Ashford, and Dale Swanson bushwhacked across the riverbank to see what railroad company CSX has been up to for the past day or so. Ashford, who is also a professor...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily One Cape Fear town is looking to be more responsive to the calls for more sustainable development that have been a constant fixture of planning conversations in the region. In the wake of damage imposed by recent storms in the state, the Leland Town Council is...

Vicki Hyatt/The Mountaineer As Haywood County flood survivors wait — and wait — for temporary Federal Emergency Management Agency housing units, winter has arrived, and those unwilling to leave their property are living in flood-damaged homes, cars or tents. Haywood County officials are being hammered on social media for not...

Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice   The North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) will not be receiving the $425 million federal grant for the Mid Currituck Bridge that the agency had hoped would offset the cost of the project. On Oct. 20 of this year, the US Department of Transportation announced the...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  A practicing physician in Congress from North Carolina, where four of six branches of the armed forces are represented, says the newly created efficiency department of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy has a chance to help America’s veterans. U.S. Rep. Dr. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., said, “We...

Chase Pellegrini de Paur/IndyWeek On Thursday night, a power outage left the Durham Public Schools board of education meeting with few lights and no airflow. That bunker vibe was perhaps appropriate for the four and a half hour long marathon meeting in which staff introduced a rotational bus service plan...