Adam Wagner/WUNC News State economists expect North Carolina to collect $71.2 billion in revenue across the 2025 and 2026 fiscal years, according to an updated revenue forecast released Friday. That’s an increase of about $1.3 billion since a March projection and about $2.7 billion from the state’s certified budget. The...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Mecklenburg County Manager Michael Bryant made his official budget recommendation to the county board of commissioners Thursday, and the $2.6 billion spending plan keeps the property tax rate steady at 49.27 cents per $100 of assessed value. County officials have been warning about a storm of headwinds...

Dwayne Yancey/Cardinal News When surveyors from Virginia and North Carolina set out in 1728 to determine just where the border between them lay, the assignment seemed simple enough: Draw a straight line. The work turned out not to be so straightforward. They set out on March 27 but the weather...

NCN News As they continue to search for a permanent replacement, the State Board of Community Colleges have named an interim president.  The board has chosen Bill Carver to serve as the system’s interim president, effective July 1. The former Nash Community College president has served in the interim role...

Haylee Kennedy/WNCN Developers behind a major expansion in Raleigh’s North Hills district are continuing to share their vision of growth. “On one hand its really exciting because there’s continued growth, more opportunities for apartments for retail and for restaurants,” resident John Lenns said. That is exactly what Kane Realty has...

Judith Retana/WNCN Mahogany Newkirk accepted her Associate in Arts degree from Central Carolina Community College. Next week, she’ll receive her high school diploma. “It was like a surreal moment. I was proud of myself,” Newkirk said of her accomplishments. She is enrolled at Harnett County Early College, where she earned...

Dennis Bright/WBTW A North Carolina business hired to perform work for the town of Surfside Beach confirmed Thursday that it hasn’t received payment for work done in the town because of what the town has called a “potential cybersecurity incident” involving its email. “We are still owed money for work...

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...

Amy Diaz/WFDD The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is launching a bioindustrial manufacturing workforce training and research program next January. It’s called NC BioMISSION. The program is designed to prepare students to enter the growing field of biotechnology, which centers on converting organic materials into things like textiles, bioplastics...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News A Wake County principal is North Carolina’s newest principal of the year. Mariah Walker, principal of Wake Young Women’s Leadership Academy in the Wake school system, was named the winner Friday during a luncheon at Umstead Hotel in Cary. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction hosted...

Bailey Stamos/WRAL News Rocky Mount police responded to a fight at city hall on Thursday morning after an argument escalated during a city council meeting. Witnesses talked with WRAL News about the heated discussion leading up to the fight and the moments the committee room went under lockdown. Witnesses said...

Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Haywood County taxpayers can thank Washington and Raleigh for at least part of next year’s tax increase, according to county commissioners. “I’ve likened this budget to being a plumber. Stuff runs downhill,” Commissioner Tommy Long said. “It runs downhill to the people in Fines Creek and...

Katie Myers/BPR News A year and a half after Helene flooded the IPEX plastic plant, there’s still a lot of PVC pipe in the French Broad River. On Tuesday, residents, officials and advocates gathered in the town of Woodfin to discuss the longstanding problem. At the Riverside Rhapsody brewery, debris...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The UNC Board of Trustees picked a master plan designer for Carolina North on Wednesday, taking another step toward developing the vision and layout of the satellite campus project. The board — which met in a remote capacity for the final time in the fiscal year —...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC During a State Board of Education meeting last week, Board members discussed data showing how many recipients of private school vouchers previously attended public schools in North Carolina and estimates of the cumulative financial impact on public schools. In 2023, the Republican-led General Assembly expanded funding...