Cameron Blue/The High Point Enterprise A day after Thomasville City Schools Superintendent Quincy Williams announced his resignation, the board of education on Tuesday approved a resolution urging the N.C. General Assembly to pass a budget for the 2027 fiscal year. The school system receives roughly 55.9% of its funding from...

Will Atwater/NC Health News Tropical Storm Helene’s impact on western North Carolina was felt acutely in the days, weeks and months after the storm, including in the region’s hospitals and clinics. New research shows how pregnant patients and people with anxiety and other health issues turned to emergency departments for...

Will Doran & Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News State lawmakers voted Wednesday to advance a proposed constitutional amendment that would give the state more control over how much cities and counties can raise property taxes. “The question this committee is answering is whether North Carolinians should be protected from continual, unsustainable, unpredictable...

Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi/The Raleigh News & Observer The North Carolina State Health Plan has scrapped its initial search for a new health insurer to serve as its administrator after no bidders met minimum requirements, resetting the search process for a program covering over 500,000 state employees, retirees and dependents....

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView The Fayetteville City Council narrowly voted Monday to pause its work on a proposed data center ordinance and instead seek more information about a possible data center moratorium—a decision reached after a heated debate and amid loud, organized public opposition. The move places Fayetteville squarely inside a...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh After hitting the doldrums in the years after the pandemic, demand for office space in the Triangle and Charlotte appears to be picking up momentum. Why it matters: Vacancy rates at office towers from downtowns to suburban office parks spiked after the pandemic as companies downsized and...

WWAY News Lower Cape Fear LifeCare has named Karen Brubaker Miller as its next president and chief executive officer following a national search. According to LifeCare, Brubaker Miller will become only the fourth CEO in the organization’s 46-year history, succeeding Gwen Whitley. The organization said its board of directors partnered...

Kimberly King/WLOS News Asheville leaders, business owners and community partners gathered at The Orange Peel on Tuesday, April 14, for the annual State of Downtown, as the area faces ongoing challenges following Helene and a $30 million budget shortfall. Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer addressed the crowd of nearly 300 people...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Nearly half of all people detained by federal immigration agents during “Operation Charlotte’s Web” last November had no criminal record, according to new data obtained by the Deportation Data Project. The records show that 402 people were arrested in North Carolina during the first week of the...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A review of the state’s juvenile detention centers by a state advocacy group, which concluded with a report in February, revealed excessive use of solitary confinement at multiple facilities, even though the practice is banned in North Carolina. One mountain county juvenile facility was forced to...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer The town of Canton hopes to use a $2.7 million windfall from a lawsuit against Pactiv Evergreen to do what the former paper mill owner failed to do: provide jobs in the manufacturing sector. The state sued Pactiv Evergreen after the mill closure for not living...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Four counts against a North Carolinian accused of communicating and disclosing national defense information could be punishable for 10 years each. U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Meyers on Monday released Courtney Williams to home detention and location monitoring. She awaits a potential trial at a date to...

Dan Kane/The Raleigh News & Observer Nearly every month since Terry Sult’s hiring as Cary’s police chief, he’s logged hundreds of miles driving an assigned “take-home” vehicle — a black 2022 Ford F-150 hybrid pickup. At least some of those trips, a town official confirmed, are to his home in...

Gerard Albert III & Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio More than 100 Asheville homeowners — most of whom are low-income and socially vulnerable — will get turned away from a Hurricane Helene recovery program if City Council doesn’t change a funding decision made one year ago. Now, some Asheville leaders...

Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Community members gathered in uptown Charlotte to view alternative concepts for adding toll lanes to Interstate 77 south of uptown. The concepts were showcased during a three-month pause in the project by the N.C. Department of Transportation. Hundreds of people gathered in uptown Charlotte on Monday to...