Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees is continuing to impede faculty-led tenure appointments – a move that’s highly unusual in academia. The board’s reputation for meddling in department tenure decisions started when a group of trustees intervened in the hiring of journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2021. They voted...

The Bladen Journal Bladen Community College is preparing students for takeoff with the launch of an Aviation Management degree program beginning in the fall. In addition, the college is developing an Air Traffic Control program that is expected to begin in spring 2027 that will make the school the first...

Elaina Athans/WTVD News Mike Ryan was among the first of 12 people to move into the Mira Apartment building when it open doors two years. Now, he’s watching as the City Gateway project is talking shape and is excited for what’s on tap. “I think it’s just growth, and growth...

Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/Education NC North Carolina students have experienced one of the fastest post-pandemic recoveries in math scores nationwide since 2022. Reading scores, however, have dropped since 2022 — and both scores remain below 2019 levels. These results are part of the Education Scorecard, a collaboration between the Center for Education...

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...

David Mildenberg/Business North Carolina Skepticism from top state and local officials over his latest deal isn’t denting Donald Gintzig’s love affair with Atrium Health, which extends back years and heated up over the past two years. The CEO of WakeMed, Raleigh’s largest hospital, says “there was only one partner worth...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog At HCA Healthcare’s April 23 shareholder meeting, CEO Sam Hazen pushed back on claims that he needed to do more to engage with Mission Hospital, which faces a fast-approaching deadline to fix deficiencies in care or face the loss of Medicare and Medicaid funding. “In my normal...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Charlotte City Council voted Monday night to withdraw its support for the proposed Interstate 77 toll lanes from uptown to the South Carolina line, a stunning reversal on the multibillion-dollar highway expansion. In a letter sent to Lyles on May 15, Johnson said federal law would...

Rose Hoban/NC Health News Finley Thomas is an 11-year-old girl who’s got a morning makeup and skin care routine. She loves Halloween, dressing up, her older brothers and cheering with her squad. She also uses a wheelchair, has a tracheostomy tube that gets hooked up to a ventilator at night,...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press  After a series of amendments that North Carolina lawmakers have made over several years to the charter school review and approval process, stand-alone remote charter schools are on the rise. The Charter School Review Board approved several new institutions earlier this year that will be started...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News UNC Pembroke is partnering with five rural North Carolina school districts to address teacher shortages in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field. The public university is launching a grant program for aspiring STEM teachers, offering to cover their education costs in exchange for students promising...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Standing in an empty concrete drive that will one day house Canton’s new, flood-proof, right-sized sewer treatment plant, Governor Josh Stein announced on Thursday an additional $3.5 million in state funding coming to Canton and Haywood. Haywood County, and Canton in particularly, has seen a dozen...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise  The company that owns the majority of High Point Market showroom space this week announced several changes to its executive team. Andmore CEO Jon Pertchik will retire, and Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel Katie Potter, along with Chief Technology Officer Landon Williams, will step...

David Ford/WFDD Radio After a quarter century and $54 million, Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway is officially open. On a sunny and warm late morning, about an hour before the big ribbon-cutting ceremony for the multi-use path that surrounds the Gate City, people have already begun gathering at the Guilford Avenue entrance...

Trevon McGlone/The Sampson Independent Roseboro residents should not expect to see a rise in their property taxes for the 2026-27 fiscal year, however they are likely to see increases in how much they pay for sewer and garbage services, if the proposed budget is passed. As it currently stands, the...