The Pender County Board of Education took up several items of note last week, including approval of high school parking fund budgets that sparked critique from one board member. Brent Springer motioned to delay approval of the parking fee budgets, which he dubbed a “slush fund,” of Pender County’s three...

Organizers of a proposed charter school have purchased a site in High Point for their start-up location. Lingua Vista Education Foundation, LLC of Clemmons last week acquired 2.13 acres at 622 E. Lexington Ave., where it intends to operate a “multi-language immersion” school, according to its website and social media...

The contentious court battle over a North Carolina textile fortune between descendants of a storied N.C. textile family and Charlotte’s largest hospital system is over. And it ended with a new beneficiary being named. Atrium Health and the family of one-time owners of Kannapolis-based Cannon Mills Co. settled their dispute...

It has been little over a year since Martin County, a rural community of 22,000 in eastern North Carolina, lost its hospital. Martin General served generations of local families during its seven-decade run in Williamston, the county’s seat of government. People born at the hospital returned to witness the births...

More than 1.5 million workers, or roughly 28% of the workforce in North Carolina, make less than $17 per hour, according to new data from Oxfam. The national average is 23.2%, and the study argues that North Carolina’s decision to not raise the minimum wage has held its number back....

Developer Donahue Peebles III had a tough job last week. Peebles, an executive with the Florida-based Peebles Corp., had to tell Mecklenburg commissioners why construction hadn’t started on the $700 million Brooklyn Village project, eight years after his firm was chosen by the county to develop the 17-acre site. He...

Last year’s legislative session included multiple new laws that changed the process for how charter schools are approved, renewed, and denied in North Carolina. These new laws are part of a recent focus by North Carolina Republican lawmakers to expand school choice, through both private schools and charters, which are...

Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course” before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy. When the 25-year-old...

Last summer, stop signs were targeted. This summer, people. The culprits who spurred an increase in complaints and 911 calls in July on Bald Head Island were not solely teenagers, but village officials are exploring ways in which juveniles — and their parents or guardians — might be held accountable...

North Carolina Central University is one of 14 higher education institutions and government agencies in the U.S. contributing to NASA’s next space telescope known as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Duke University is the project’s lead. According to Diane Markoff, NCCU’s physics professor, N.C. Central is the only HBCU...

A residential complex, wholly dedicated to workforce housing, is on track for approval in Wilmington. Wilmington Planning Commissioner Ace Cofer told his colleagues at its Aug. 7 meeting this is the first time he had seen a 100% workforce housing development come before the board. Unanimously approved, Avenue Flats will...

Western Carolina University is coming off the most successful year of philanthropic giving in the institution’s history — momentum it hopes will carry through to the public launch of the “Fill the Western Sky” comprehensive fundraising campaign this fall. The WCU Foundation received more than $35.8 million in gifts and...

A North Carolina appellate court has reopened the possibility of Mission Hospital building a new emergency room in Arden. Last year, a lower court ruled in favor of two other hospital systems, Pardee and Advent, which sued, arguing state officials’ process of approval for Mission deprived competing systems. A Court...

Autumn Davis stood on her front porch Wednesday, gesturing toward the mounds of dirt in the vacant lot next door. The house where Davis, 32, grew up used to sit on that lot, along Sessoms Street in Fayetteville, until Hurricane Matthew slogged by in 2016. Afterward, almost everyone on Sessoms...

Recreational fishermen have been barred from catching the state’s most valued finifish, the Southern flounder, this year because they exceeded last year’s quota. But anglers say this season’s cancellation reflects a larger management issue at the state level. The Division of Marine Fisheries, part of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental...