Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Nobody likes a tax increase, but this March, four county boards of commissioners are trying to sell one to voters. County commissioners in Gates, Granville, Hyde and Wayne counties voted to put a quarter-percent sales tax increase on the primary election ballot. If a majority of...

Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News Thousands of immigrants in North Carolina can no longer get food stamps under new federal rules that took effect Sunday under a provision in President Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spend legislation that was passed this summer. The law amends the federal Food and Nutrition Act to restrict Supplemental...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Sexual abuse accusations have grown at the UNC System’s largest institution, all tied to the athletics department and former sports medicine director Robert Murphy Jr. Plaintiffs include two by name and 29 others known as John Doe in the filing at Wake County Superior Court. Defendants...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio After Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was fatally stabbed on the Charlotte light rail on Aug. 22, 2025., mourners created a memorial for her at the East West light rail station. The federal government released an audit Monday that said the Charlotte Area Transit System’s safety...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN News A professor at Duke University is among those mentioned in the files connected to Jeffrey Epstein. More than 3 million pages of the Epstein files were released by the United States Department of Justice last Friday, Jan. 30. The files offer insight into the activities of Epstein,...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog An 88-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery at Mission Hospital died after going 13 hours without receiving a needed blood transfusion. Another patient’s heart stopped for 15 minutes leading to brain damage after staff didn’t respond to an urgent request for heart monitoring. Short-staffed night shift nurses...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView A longtime cheer coach and athletics administrator sued Fayetteville State University, alleging she was fired based on a botched investigation of false complaints from disgruntled former cheerleaders. The federal lawsuit, filed December 23 by LaWanda Miller, also alleged that FSU reneged on its agreement to scrub her...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News During Isabella Avila’s freshman year at Union Pines High School in rural Moore County, a member of the senior class died in a car accident. Then, during her sophomore year, a freshman was killed when the vehicle he was driving crashed into a house, she said....

Ferrel Guillory/Education NC As Katherine Joyce prepares to retire after two decades of advocacy on behalf of public school administrators, she recalls how a teacher in a Surry County elementary school gave her a nudge of encouragement that shaped her career. “My fifth grade teacher pulled me aside and said...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Based on remarks by the county’s tax director at the Guilford County Board of Commissioners’ Friday, Jan. 30, annual retreat, most property owners are about to get a shock in their mailboxes. When new reappraisal notices for the 2026 countywide revaluation of all property in the...

Mebane Rash/Education NC From remote learning to transportation costs to school meals, North Carolina’s winter storms are presenting an array of challenges for school districts. Gov. Josh Stein has declared a state of emergency, and much of the state is coping with significant snowfall and extremely cold temperatures. “This has...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News This past fall, administrators at Elon University and Queens University of Charlotte announced that the two private schools intended to merge. The announcement called the merger an opportunity to create a “more sustainable model of higher education in Charlotte.” It came as a shock to faculty, alumni,...

Daniel Larlham Jr./NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger Medical providers in Charlotte and across the state say more patients are landing in emergency rooms with problems stemming from cannabis use. A lot of them are young patients complaining of nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Those are symptoms of Cannabinoid Hyperemesis...

Jackson Auchincloss/The Daily Tar Heel UNC Health has instituted a new policy that restricts access to gender-affirming care to those under 19 years of age, changing the previous policy which included 18-year-olds in care coverage. The new guidelines go beyond the requirements of North Carolina state law, under which gender-affirming...

Joseph Williams/The Whiteville News Reporter After building his career in local government, Whiteville native Sean Martin has been chosen as the city’s next city manager. Following a months-long search, Whiteville City Council unanimously approved his hiring at its Tuesday night meeting. Martin will replace Darren Currie, who retired Dec. 31...