Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Black health care professionals will convene in Charlotte this weekend, with a focus on caring for mothers and babies. Recent data shows a disturbing trend, with Black infants still dying at a higher rate than their counterparts. Black health care professionals will convene in uptown Charlotte this...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Brunswick County Schools could add another property to its ranks, but not a school; the district is using some of its acreage in Supply for affordable housing geared toward its employees. The board of education voted unanimously in favor of the proposal at its meeting on...

Emily Thomas/Education NC Eli Hughes lights up when he talks about the future. A junior at Mitchell High School, Hughes has always known he was destined to work with his hands. That tinkering mentality is why Hughes has taken almost every career and technical education (CTE) class that his school...

Kathy Hanrahan & Heidi Kirk/WRAL News Zebulon town leaders have temporarily closed Gill Street Park after elevated levels of lead were found during soil testing, but WRAL Investigates has found that the site has had tests indicating glass, lead and arsenic were found at the site more than a year...

Anna Tart/Up & Coming Weekly The door chimes as Joseph Mason opens the door at Back-A-Round Records. The sound of rock music fills his ears as he ascends the narrow staircase lined with graffiti-esque art, glowing under black lights. Mason, a regular at the record store, begins thumbing through the...

WWAY News A new regional coalition focused on sports and community development is set to launch next month during an event tied to the proposed Wilmington arena project. Organizers say the Cape Fear Sports & Community Coalition will debut during the “Arena Rising” event on April 25 at Riverfront Park....

Sofia DiStefano/Niner Times Months after the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska in August of 2025, which shook riders across Charlotte’s transit system, questions about safety on the city’s light rail persist despite expanded patrols and new security strategies. The death of Zarutska gained national and local attention, with several politicians,...

Felicia Sonmez/Blue Ridge Public Radio   After severe weather and repeated flight delays left them stranded in New York for four days last year, Susan Kluttz and her husband finally bit the bullet. They abandoned their plane tickets and booked seats on Amtrak’s Carolinian train, which Kluttz said took them...

Guy Lucas/The High Point Enterprise The artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was used by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency to determine that hundreds of National Endowment for the Humanities were based on “diversity, equity and inclusion” and should be terminated, including one to the High Point Museum to pay...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN The Rocky Mount City Council voted Monday afternoon to approve utility bill rate increases across the board. The special meeting lasted for several hours, with dozens of homeowners voicing their opposition. The across the board increases are expected to cost the average homeowner around $45 more per month,...

Chase Pellegrini de Paur/IndyWeek Second-term state Senator Graig Meyer is vacating his seat this week to take a job as executive director of the North Carolina Justice Center. Four candidates—including State Rep. Allen Buansi, State Rep. Renée Price, and state Democratic Party Vice Chair Jonah Garson—are vying to finish Meyer’s...

Wyatte Grantham-Philips/The Associated Press U.S. gas prices jumped past an average of $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 on Tuesday, as the Iran war pushes fuel prices higher worldwide. According to motor club AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now $4.02 —...

Moss Brennan/The Watauga Democrat While it’s been more than a year and a half since Hurricane Helene ripped through the High Country, the Watauga Long Term Recovery Group is still active and working to help those in need. “There’s a tremendous amount of what I would call a hidden need...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A local push to establish a Bible study program during the public school day has split the New Hanover County Schools community since the proposal was brought up at a school board meeting a month ago. On Monday, two members of the program’s steering committee explained...

Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times Wilson County Schools will ask the Wilson County commissioners for $39,772,359 for its current expense fund and $1.5 million in capital outlay funds for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. Wilson Medical information Last year’s county appropriation for the current expense fund was $26,292,960. The capital outlay...