Laura Hackett/BPR News On Tuesday, Asheville City Council unanimously voted for a new ordinance that aims to strengthen protections for renters who are living in unsafe housing conditions. Dubbed the “No Rent for Slumlords” ordinance by local organizers, the policy makes it unlawful for landlords to collect rent on a...

Josh Funk/The Associated Press The cargo airline that flew the plane that ran off the end of a Miami runway over Labor Day weekend and killed five people lost one of its biggest customers when Amazon suspended its partnership with 21 Air, and it’s not yet clear if the company...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz For Aswani Volety, chancellor of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, each project in the university’s campus master plan plays a unique role in supporting UNCW’s mission. The proposed projects range from a welcome center and new residence hall to a hotel and conference center, along with renovations...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press In 2022, North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services approved new hospital beds to be built in Western North Carolina for the first time in more than a decade. According to the formula the state uses annually to determine which areas require expanded medical services,...

Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News Jennifer McCord, who became disabled in 2021 after a drunk driver crashed into her car, relies on $994 in Social Security disability income each month. Nearly $700 goes toward rent for a studio apartment in Asheboro. Then she pays her phone, internet and car bills. Typically,...

Tori Newby/IndyWeek In a region once known for its booming tobacco industry, Durham County has lost more than 40,000 acres of farmland since 1974—a 71% reduction—as new housing developments make headway and farmers struggle to afford rising costs. More than 16,000 of those acres have been lost since 2007, and...

Hayden Wittenborn/WUNC News Prime real estate sits empty in downtown Raleigh on most weekdays. Across the city, church parking lots are full for a few services a week while the surrounding county faces a deepening housing crisis. For local congregations, these lots present an opportunity to help the community. Finding...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The developer behind Barclay projects at the corner of 17th Street and Independence Boulevard is looking to undo a decade-old density restriction on property near The Pointe. The request’s outcome, to be determined by Wilmington City Council, will affect how the last acreage of the Barclay...

Bill Moss/The Hendersonville Lightning The growing anti-Flock campaign is now fighting City Hall while still urging the county to shut down the license-plate readers. But so far, the surveillance camera opponents have mostly heard a defense of the system and gotten no commitment to remove them. Flock opponents appeared at...

The High Point Enterprise A Guilford County Detention Center officer was arrested Friday and accused of forging the signatures of magistrates on documents allowing immigrants to be held longer than the norm, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office said. The investigation began after the magistrate’s office notified the sheriff’s office about...

Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News North Carolina House Democrats say they will no longer support one of their own candidates as criticism mounts over messages promoting political violence that were posted to her social media accounts. The withdrawal of support could have ramifications for the party’s efforts to gain influence in the...

Brian Slodysko/The Associated Press A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.” The prayer was hardly unusual by...

WFAE | By James Farrell After a tumultuous stretch that included a budget fight, a wide-ranging investigation, a superintendent suspension and subsequent reinstatement, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will consider removing Stephanie Sneed as chair at its next meeting. Multiple board members confirmed to WFAE on Friday that a motion calling...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Tax subsidy of $125,000 from the One North Carolina Fund, and $691,037 from local incentives, is part of the equation in a steel fabrication company’s $19 million expansion in Cumberland County. SteelFab plans to add 38 jobs – more than $21,000 per job in subsidies if...

Kevin Ellis/Business North Carolina The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to make a workforce investment announcement at Albemarle’s lithium mine in Kings Mountain on Monday. Assistant Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson will tour the 1,200-acre mine and processing facility that sits on one of the richest hard-rock lithium deposits...