North Carolina education officials are recommending that the state end a testing requirement for college students who want to become teachers. Typically, for a college sophomore to be admitted into a program at their university to complete a degree in education, they have to first pass a test called the...

The nation’s car dealerships experienced total losses of more than $1 billion as the result of a nationwide hacking and ransomware attack on their software and systems last month, according to a new estimate from East Lansing-based consulting firm Anderson Economic Group. A cyberattack on Chicago-based dealership software provider CDK...

With the race to become North Carolina’s next governor entering its final few months, Democratic nominee Josh Stein has raised twice as much money as Republican nominee Mark Robinson. And Stein heads into the final stretch with nearly triple the amount of cash on hand. Both men have raised more...

It’s been a year since Canton papermill workers walked through the shoot for their final shift, but across town, the fate of the mill’s satellite facility in Waynesville has remained in limbo. Media attention has swirled around what would become of the shuttered behemoth mill site in Canton, stripped of...

North Carolina’s Local Government Commission voted this week to return full control of all financial affairs to the town of Spring Lake, effective Aug. 1, or as soon as the town can appoint a finance officer. The ruling — at the LGC’s regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday — caught Spring...

When Hurricane Florence hit New Bern more than five years ago, families had to be rescued from the Trent Court complex. The effort to rebuild one of the city’s largest public housing projects with money from FEMA has yet to get off the ground. A new study released by the...

Hampstead residents have started a petition regarding discolored water and reached out to commissioners after they said concerns were not being handled appropriately by Pender County Utilities, despite a recent water rate hike. “When you raise somebody’s rates and then they have brown water in their toilet, it ain’t good,”...

Conversations have continued on a proposed auto park just outside of downtown Cameron, but with no formal application, the discussions have been mainly informational. The over 100-acre project, dubbed “Cameron Motor Condos,” would consist of a potentially private auto park for automobile collectors with a road course, off-road course and...

Days ahead of a pivotal meeting to discuss the final proposal for the “Meadows at Haw Creek” housing development, not everyone is on board. The 27-acre project at 767 New Haw Creek Road has galvanized the bucolic East Asheville community since it was introduced by the developer, L.B. Jackson and...

Former president Donald Trump’s choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee reflects the ascendancy of the party’s populist economic wing — and the choice is alarming traditional conservative policymakers and elite donors who opposed the pick. Get a curated selection of 10 of our best stories...

Tensions ran high at the most recent Macon County Commissioners meeting where about 300 people turned out to express their views on proposed changes to the flood damage prevention ordinance, soil erosion and sedimentation control and water supply watershed protection. Discussion about updating the current regulation started in March when...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be allowed to run for president in North Carolina, the State Board of Elections decided Tuesday in a move that could have significant implications for this year’s presidential election. The vote to approve Kennedy’s We The People Party for the November ballot was 4-1. But...

In 2022, Arizona pioneered the largest school voucher program in the history of education. Under a new law, any parent in the state, no matter how affluent, could get a taxpayer-funded voucher worth up to tens of thousands of dollars to spend on private school tuition, extracurricular programs or homeschooling...

Buried deep within a 40-page regulatory reform bill that became law last week, a new policy handed down by the Republican-led General Assembly will require tax collectors in every North Carolina county and municipality to install a sign “in a conspicuous manner” on each parcel subject to a lien for...

Rachel Jensen was excited to embark on the next phase of her training in obstetrics and gynecology — a fellowship in complex family planning in North Carolina. But when it came time for her to pack her bags and move from Baltimore, Maryland, to the Triangle last summer, Jensen found...