Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Bill Franklin marched up to the sand crossover pushed up and over the rusty-colored pipe carrying sand from Carolina Beach Inlet to near the southern end of Kure Beach and paused. “It’s nice to see the wide beach back,” said the Kentucky tourist and frequent visitor...

Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville town council rejected a property tax increase for the coming year, and instead directed each department to find cuts to make up the difference. Council members were largely mum last week when presented with a draft budget calling for a 2 cent property tax hike....

David Beasley/The Center Square Two years ago, 13 North Carolina students suffered cardiac arrest while at school, one of whom died. Now, two state lawmakers want to ensure that all public schools – roughly 2,500 in total – stock defibrillators. The legislation, which has already passed the House, was sponsored...

9. Dare Ed Board to consider banning e-bike use on school property Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice At their meeting on Tuesday, May 26, the Policy Review Committee of Dare County Board of Education will review a proposal for a new policy that would ban the operation of e-bikes on school...

Lorelei Roberts/Watauga Democrat Watauga County’s Cattlemen’s Association members spent a recent Saturday helping a cattle farmer in his 80s rebuild his fence that was destroyed in Hurricane Helene. “Every community member just wants to make sure that their community is taken care of and try to help where they can,”...

Cierra Noffke/WilmingtonBiz UNC System’s Board of Governors granted UNCW permission to begin the planning process for its proposed medical school. The motion passed with unanimous support at the full Board of Governors meeting today. The medical school was proposed in April at a Board of Governors Committee on Educational Planning,...

Ashley Fredde/NC Health News State lawmakers are proposing a bill they say would reduce administrative burden and redundancy for inspections in adult care homes, the places that manage the care for some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. “Adult care homes” have a specific designation in North Carolina. They’re places...

Daniel Walton/BPR News Buncombe County plans to ask its voters for permission to take on $70 million in new debt this November. At Tuesday night’s meeting, the Board of Commissioners began the legal process for placing two bond referenda on the general election ballot. Two documents unanimously approved by the...

Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer Maggie Valley has been bleeding $10,000 a month to pump sewage across Jonathan Creek to the sewer plant following Helene damage to a critical line. That broken line — one of the last large-scale Hurricane Helene recovery projects for Maggie Valley — will soon be in...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News  NC Central was the only institution that didn’t meet the System’s financial health threshold. Chancellor Karrie Dixon said long overdue state enrollment funding is key to restoring the HBCU’s finances. Public university chancellors are still making a case for state enrollment funding as the General Assembly deliberates...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press  A change in the makeup of North Carolina’s juvenile detention population with adult court youth surging from 39% to 65% in a year presents new challenges for the juvenile detention system as it scrambles to accommodate this changing population, according to a new report from the...

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice With oceanfront homes collapsing and beach erosion an increasing concern, the Currituck County Board of Commissioners is expected to approve a resolution backing state legislative efforts to repeal the hardened structures ban at their May 18 meeting. In expressing support for the NC Senate Bill 1009,...

WFAE Radio Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney said he may step down in the coming months following a 2024 incident in which he was recorded late at night in town hall without pants with a female companion. On Monday, Carney said he plans to consider his future after the town’s budget...

Christopher Long/The Wilson Times North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Lee Lilley walked down Barnes Street with a group of city and state representatives Wednesday afternoon, May 20, noting all the things that make downtown Wilson different from other downtown footprints across the state. Lilley visited Wilson to shine a light...

Jill Doss-Raines/The Lexington Dispatch  In the wake of the devastating Main Street fire in uptown Lexington on Tuesday, Davidson County is coming together with a powerful show of support for the business owners whose lives and livelihoods were upended. From heartfelt social media posts to grassroots fundraising efforts, neighbors, fellow...