DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio The Greensboro City Council on Tuesday approved a cap and cover option for Bingham Park, foregoing a full remediation of the area due to available funding. The park was opened in the 1970s atop an unregulated landfill, and was a key part of several neighborhoods in east...

The Associated Press The North Carolina county that is home to Asheville overcounted deaths caused by Helene by as many as 30, according to a statement Tuesday from its sheriff’s office and data from the state, significantly reducing the death toll from the historic storm. Buncombe County officials, who previously...

Brian Gordon/The News & Observer Karen Bruggemann of Candler, North Carolina, assured she isn’t missing. “Sometimes I wish I were,” she joked over the phone Tuesday. Bruggemann’s name appears on “Hurricane Helene People Finder,” a Google Doc disseminated online after then-Tropical Storm Helene devastated multiple Western North Carolina communities. The...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC As the 14 North Carolina community colleges impacted by Hurricane Helene continue recovery efforts, the N.C. Community College System (NCCCS) is asking state lawmakers for student support funds and stabilization dollars due to enrollment loss, according to information presented at the State Board of Community College’s...

Bradley George/WUNC Radio Union members in the crowd during President Joe Biden’s visit to Wolfspeed in Durham in March 2023. Woflspeed is putting plans to build a semiconductor factory in Germany on hold, according to officials and reports in German media. The Durham-based company announced the project in 2023. It...

Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio It’s time for a fact-check of North Carolina politics. Election Day is just under two weeks away, but people are already casting ballots in North Carolina. Following Hurricane Helene’s devastation, the state eased some rules in western North Carolina to make it easier for those affected by...

Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News As climate change increasingly impacts North Carolina, prospective homebuyers face a daunting new reality: understanding and navigating the risks associated with property ownership. From the Outer Banks, where coastal erosion is a pressing concern, to the mountainous regions scarred by Hurricane Helene, the risks posed by flooding,...

George Chidi/The Guardian Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate, suggested that people who can’t take care of their children should be sterilized, according to one of a series of incendiary and racist social media posts from 2014 through 2019. The commentary made in reference to Black families, which...

The Washington Post It started with hot coffee. Hurricane Helene had just cut off this already isolated foothill town from everything: power, water, information. Paralyzed, the only thing that residents Carin Harris and Hilary Yoxall could think to do was post up outside their Ingles supermarket and hand out something...

High Point Enterprise The senior-living organization that operates River Landing at Sandy Ridge has purchased a pair of adjacent office buildings in northwest Guilford County to serve as its new headquarters. Kintura — which formed on Oct. 1 by the merger of Brightspire, based in Colfax, and Well-Spring Group, based...

Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline Three Republican state senators have accused Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs of “blatantly violating” the state Code of Judicial Conduct in her campaign for election to state’s highest court. Senators, Buck Newton, Amy Galey, and Danny Britt, filed a complaint with the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission...

John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog Some documents age better than others. And some? They make you cringe – a lot. Take this June 2016 news release from the City of Asheville. The headline alone has to make anyone in western North Carolina shudder: “100 years after the Flood of 1916, the City...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network In Brunswick County, developments that promise to bring hundreds of new homes and apartments to the fast-growing county seem to be springing up faster than ever. Near the South Carolina state line, Sunset Beach officials are looking to add hundreds of new homes to an existing...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Ingles Markets, the Asheville-based grocery mainstay of Western North Carolina, sustained severe damage to its distribution center along the Swannanoa River and several supermarket locations when Tropical Storm Helene hit the mountains just over three weeks ago. The severe damage to Ingles’ Black Mountain distribution...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Buncombe County has invested over $10 million in the past few years to install solar panels in many of its municipal buildings and most of Asheville City Schools. “We went from having zero solar projects to a whole bunch of solar projects in a real short order,”...