Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leaders say they’re promoting equity with a new schedule that standardizes what teachers get paid for taking on such extra duties as band, dance, drama, yearbook and academic clubs. The new stipend schedule, which does not cover athletics, ranges from $200 for teachers who advise student clubs to...

An Onslow County deputy is out of a job after a video released this week appeared to show his role in a fight between residents and protesters in a neighborhood where Native American artifacts were found. On Wednesday, a group of Indigenous activists called 7 Directions of Service shared the...

A new skyscraper is coming to Raleigh, and it’s going to be one of the tallest buildings in the city. Real estate company CBRE said ground is set to break on the 37-story luxury apartment building by the end of the year. It will beat out The Eastern in North...

Is Old Well Management the collective that Carolina needs? It is not unusual for conference powers to be fiddling with their NIL programs, since the enterprise of paying college athletes is still in its embryo stages. There are lots of ways schools are constantly maneuvering to get the best athletes....

Last month, UNC Asheville chancellor Kimberly van Noort proposed the closure of several academic programs and departments in response to budget deficits. The cuts were prompted by UNCA’s declining enrollment and subsequent financial difficulties. But the proposed cuts significantly undermine UNCA’s liberal-arts mission. The school proposes to cut the following...

After three days, an enigmatic portrait emerged of the 20-year-old man who came close to killing former President Donald Trump with a high-velocity bullet: He was an intelligent loner with few friends, an apparently thin social media footprint and no hints of strong political beliefs that would suggest a motive...

North Carolina education officials are recommending that the state end a testing requirement for college students who want to become teachers. Typically, for a college sophomore to be admitted into a program at their university to complete a degree in education, they have to first pass a test called the...

The nation’s car dealerships experienced total losses of more than $1 billion as the result of a nationwide hacking and ransomware attack on their software and systems last month, according to a new estimate from East Lansing-based consulting firm Anderson Economic Group. A cyberattack on Chicago-based dealership software provider CDK...

With the race to become North Carolina’s next governor entering its final few months, Democratic nominee Josh Stein has raised twice as much money as Republican nominee Mark Robinson. And Stein heads into the final stretch with nearly triple the amount of cash on hand. Both men have raised more...

It’s been a year since Canton papermill workers walked through the shoot for their final shift, but across town, the fate of the mill’s satellite facility in Waynesville has remained in limbo. Media attention has swirled around what would become of the shuttered behemoth mill site in Canton, stripped of...

North Carolina’s Local Government Commission voted this week to return full control of all financial affairs to the town of Spring Lake, effective Aug. 1, or as soon as the town can appoint a finance officer. The ruling — at the LGC’s regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday — caught Spring...

When Hurricane Florence hit New Bern more than five years ago, families had to be rescued from the Trent Court complex. The effort to rebuild one of the city’s largest public housing projects with money from FEMA has yet to get off the ground. A new study released by the...

Hampstead residents have started a petition regarding discolored water and reached out to commissioners after they said concerns were not being handled appropriately by Pender County Utilities, despite a recent water rate hike. “When you raise somebody’s rates and then they have brown water in their toilet, it ain’t good,”...

Conversations have continued on a proposed auto park just outside of downtown Cameron, but with no formal application, the discussions have been mainly informational. The over 100-acre project, dubbed “Cameron Motor Condos,” would consist of a potentially private auto park for automobile collectors with a road course, off-road course and...

Days ahead of a pivotal meeting to discuss the final proposal for the “Meadows at Haw Creek” housing development, not everyone is on board. The 27-acre project at 767 New Haw Creek Road has galvanized the bucolic East Asheville community since it was introduced by the developer, L.B. Jackson and...