Paul Woolverton/CityView The potential of a moratorium on data center construction in Cumberland County increased on Monday when the Board of Commissioners voted 6-0, with one absent, to hold a public hearing on the idea on May 18. A vote on a moratorium could take place sometime after the hearing....

Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog When Frank Carey saw two men smoking methamphetamine outside the rear entrance of Spicer Greene Jewelers on March 27, he shooed them away and escorted four customers – a husband, wife and their 12-year-old twins – out the store’s front door on Patton Avenue. Moments later, one...

Jay Price/WUNC News A military spouse from Sanford was walking the halls of power last week to fight for better rules to keep low-performing — and in some cases predatory — colleges and universities from receiving federal funding. The Education Department is retooling its accreditation standards, which among other things...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro After Chatham County residents voiced privacy concerns for Pittsboro’s Flock Cameras, the town recently met to clarify its policies around the surveillance technology and data collection. The Flock Safety system aims to help local police identify suspects and locate missing persons by taking still images of a...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News   The tiny Haywood County Town of Clyde has joined a growing number of Western North Carolina communities by formalizing its opposition to data centers through a 12-month moratorium, but with limited jurisdiction beyond its borders and the possibility of preemption by Raleigh looming, Clyde knows...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News In a partially divided vote, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty have adopted two resolutions formalizing their concerns about the university’s School of Civic Life and Leadership. More informally known as SCiLL, university administrators market the degree program as an “interdisciplinary home” where professors use a civics-based education to teach...

Derick Lee/Education NC Boost is an accelerated college-to-career program designed to increase completion rates and move students into high-wage, high-demand jobs. Funded by a grant from Arnold Ventures and launched in the fall of 2025, Boost is a statewide replication of the CUNY ASAP model. The program began with eight...

Trista Talton/Education NC Kerri Allen acknowledged early on what was also obvious to her audience. “I do not need to tell anyone in here we have a really high density of leases,” the North Carolina Coastal Federation’s coastal management program director said. “In our public trust waters, when you have...

Hendersonville Lightning  HiViz have been in Henderson County for 8 years and will be moving some of their production to an existing building on Continuum Drive in the Town of Fletcher. The expansion will result in 33 new jobs, with an average annual wage of $68,788, and investment of $6,196,649....

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A structure that stands as a tribute to High Point’s furniture and hosiery heritage is once again for sale. The “World’s Largest Chest of Drawers” at 508 N. Hamilton St. this week was listed for sale by its owner, the Nido and Mariana Qubein Children’s...

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline An environmental group is asking the North Carolina Dept. of Environmental Quality to address ongoing wastewater pollution flowing into the Haw River. The Saxapahaw wastewater treatment plan in Alamance County has been discharging high levels of fecal bacteria into the Haw River for months, according to a...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio In the debate over whether to build toll lanes on Interstate 77 between uptown and South Carolina, supporters have often focused on one argument: We have no choice. They have said that to widen I-77 to reduce congestion and traffic accidents, that toll roads are the only...

Caitlin Mullen/Banking Dive Truist CEO Bill Rogers defended the super-regional bank’s game plan Friday in response to analyst questions related to the bank’s M&A appetite, succession plan and growth outlook. Charlotte, North Carolina-based Truist and Pittsburgh-based PNC were both mentioned as potential targets in a recent Bloomberg report that said...

Justyn Araya DeBusk/WGHP The North Carolina Zoo’s new Asia Continent is all but ready to open, but one thing is getting in the way: the North Carolina state budget. For years, the North Carolina Zoo has been working on this landmark 12.5-acre expansion, which will bring tigers, Komodo dragons, Visayan...

Jay Price/WUNC News For years, the U.S. military has been fielding small drones equipped with cameras that let troops see, for instance, over nearby hills or inside treelines. Now, though, the U.S. is trying to catch up to geopolitical adversaries such as Russia and China, which are using drones as...