The Haywood County Tourism Development Authority voted Thursday to rescind a grant promoting the county as a welcoming destination for all people, citing concerns over what it called the recipients’ selection process for participants as well as its political activities. Meanwhile, a founder of the Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Alliance...

A job-creation project in southeast High Point is a step closer to reality following a property acquisition this week. A company affiliated with C&C Industries purchased a tract that includes a vacant 108,000-square-foot industrial building at 2103 Brentwood St. The purchase price was $5 million, and the seller was a...

One in four North Carolina students — 417,000 kids — was “chronically absent” from school during the 2022-23 school year, state data show. It’s an improvement from the year before, when about one in three kids was chronically absent; North Carolina actually made some of the biggest progress among U.S....

The White House unveiled the fruits of months of negotiations between the government and pharmaceutical companies: new, lower Medicare prices for 10 blockbuster drugs. The discounts range from 79% for diabetes drug Januvia to 38% for blood cancer drug Imbruvica. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra played up the...

Americans born to low-income families are faring worse than the last generation in the Triangle, and in most of the country’s largest metro areas, a new analysis finds. Why it matters: Intergenerational mobility — the idea that you’ll do better than your parents, your children will do better than you,...

Last week’s celebration was a testament to the power of community and the strength of our collective vision. It was exhilarating to see leaders from both sides of the river and political spectrum come together as the Federal Highway Administrator announced an unprecedented grant of $242 million for the Cape...

A new state panel has laid out specifics designed to bring numerous North Carolina state government agencies together to work on improving outcomes for prisoners when they are released, leading to reduced recidivism. The Joint Reentry Council created by Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive order in January approved last week a...

New changes are being proposed to Sylva’s panhandling ordinance, and although a public hearing is not required for the Sylva Town Board to amend the ordinance that governs its streets and sidewalks, the town will hold a public hearing on the proposed changes next month after one board member urged...

Tuesday’s town hall with New Hanover County Schools board members, executive staff and teachers was a positive one, according to some participants and board members. “It went well,” board member Hugh McManus said. “The honest, straight input from teachers, principals, instructional coaches, cafeteria staff, bus drivers and cafeteria staff to...

A new working draft study out of Wake Forest University is the most comprehensive analysis of the personnel crisis at Mission Hospital to date, using hundreds of interviews, documents and media reports to tell the story of a mass exodus of doctors, a poor working environment for nurses and a...

Construction equipment beeped and whirred in the background and dump trucks roared in the distance during a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for Commerce Street Apartments, a 172-unit, mixed-income apartment complex in downtown Durham. Local, state and national housing officials called the construction noise sounds of progress. “I thought that was an...

Two members of the Guilford County Board of Education had stern words for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners after passing a resolution Tuesday night pledging to use revenue from a proposed sales tax increase for school system workers’ pay. The school board voted unanimously and without discussion to approve...

Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin says that despite efforts to roll back the city’s zoning reforms, she believes her work has created more housing for the city. Why it matters: In her five years as mayor, Baldwin pushed aggressively to loosen Raleigh’s zoning codes, put more money toward affordable housing and...

There has been much concern in recent years about the rise of nontraditional college leaders and what that portends for higher education. The announcement last week of Lee Roberts as chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill kicked off a fresh round of debate about whether someone...

Authorities from Moore County Public Safety said the actions of an unnamed soldier who killed a utility worker in May near his home were justified under the North Carolina Castle Doctrine. That law allows defensive force when there’s a perceived threat within one’s home or property. A U.S. Army Special...