The Shull’s Mill Dam is an obstruction, but it’s been a long time since it was watertight. Water flowed from an eye-shaped hole in the middle of the dam, a remnant of flooding during the 1940s. Now, the rest of the dam will come down during the next couple weeks....

Multiple organizations are responding to the school board’s decision to terminate the contract of the superintendent earlier in the week. In a 5-0 vote late Tuesday night, the New Hanover County School Board fired Charles Foust, the district’s first Black superintendent who was on the job for almost four years....

It’s no surprise that the residents in the Town of Summerfield were disappointed that the NC General Assembly tore nearly 1,000 acres away from their town and put it into unincorporated Guilford County; but what is surprising is that, in the wake of that act – which will lead to...

A contentious provision that would all but eliminate protections for archaeologically significant resources was stripped from an energy and environmental bill at the eleventh-hour last week, just days after an altercation at a site where Native American human remains were found during construction. Sen. Norm Sanderson, R-Pamlico, asked the Senate...

The UNC System has sent guidance to university chancellors as they make decisions on how to comply with a mandate from the UNC Board of Governors that targeted diversity, equity and inclusion offices. The letter from the legal staff at the UNC System was sent to the chancellors late last...

The developers for a high-end automotive motorsports track and car resort in northwestern Moore County answered more questions about the planned development in a second community with a larger gathering Monday evening in Robbins. Opinions over the proposed project are conflicted, with some saying the development will add unwanted noise,...

It’s been a little under a year since Corrina Ruffieux took over for longtime Haywood County Tourism Development Authority Executive Director Lynn Collins, but Ruffieux’s wasted little time bolstering the TDA’s destination marketing strategy with robust and insightful data meant to show the county’s relative strengths and weaknesses while also...

An ongoing issue over the chiller system at Hiwassee Dam School shows just how chilly relations are between Cherokee County commissioners and school board members. County commissioners have grown increasingly impatient with the school board over its decision to shut down middle schools in Martins Creek and Ranger without a...

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is moving closer to replacing the Dean Dome, home of its men’s basketball team for nearly four decades. The university could identify the positives and negatives of sites for a potential new men’s and women’s basketball arena by the end of the month. UNC...

The city school system is looking at freezing some vacant school positions and cutting central office personnel to cope with a $1.2 million shortfall. Much of the funding gap stems from the loss of $1 million in annual federal pandemic funding, a situation experienced by other school systems, according to...

Drive an hour south of Nashville into the rolling countryside of Marshall County, Tennessee — past horse farms, mobile homes and McMansions — and you will arrive in Chapel Hill, population 1,796. It’s the birthplace of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who helped found the Ku Klux Klan. And it’s...

When you map the primary religion in every county in America, the Catholics stand out. As America’s single-largest religious group, Catholics show up everywhere, from the Italian alleyways of New England to the thriving Filipino churches of Hawaii, from the Polish pockets of the Rust Belt to the Cuban corners...

A U.S. district court judge has denied a landowner’s attempt to prevent federal regulators from enforcing the Clean Water Act against him, the latest ruling in a set of cases involving wetlands protections in North Carolina. Earlier this month, Robert D. White, of Elizabeth City, sat quietly in a federal...

The race is not to run against Mayor Vi Lyles. But to succeed her, whenever she decides not to run again. That may be next year. It may be in 2027. But Monday’s City Council vote to spend $650 million to renovate Bank of America Stadium was the unofficial campaign...

Katherine Farris has been an abortion provider for more than 20 years, and she says that this past year has been the hardest of her career — by a long shot. Not her first year of practice when everything was new. Not the year she stepped into the role of...