Kristen Blair/Education NC A Harnett County charter school secured initial approval this week from the Charter Schools Review Board (CSRB) for a 2028 opening. The K-8 school, American Leadership Academy – Capeton, will partner with Charter One, a national education management organization (EMO) for help with operations. Based in Arizona,...

David Ford/WFDD Radio Carver High School in Winston-Salem is celebrating its 90th anniversary. It was the first school to serve Black students outside of the city limits, and it has remained a major source of pride in the community since opening its doors in 1936. Friday, the Sound of the...

WSOC News Residents in parts of Gastonia may begin seeing delivery drones in their area following the completion of a drone delivery facility at Walmart, located at 223 N. Myrtle School Road. The drones will operate within approximately a 6-mile radius of the store as part of the company’s delivery...

WRAL News The Wake County Public School System named its 2026-27 Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year on Thursday. Roxann Sykes of Dillard Drive Magnet Elementary School was named Principal of the Year. Xavier Wallace-McGrew of South Garner High School was named Assistant Principal of the Year. Sykes has...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog She knew the name might annoy people — that it could strike them as gimmicky, craven, even exploitative. The first time she mentioned it to a friend, he told her: That’s a terrible idea. But it had come to her almost involuntarily, and now she couldn’t stop...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Melissa Balknight will remain acting superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools until the district hires a replacement for former Superintendent Crystal Hill, CMS announced Thursday. Balknight, who was deputy superintendent, had planned to retire Jan. 1. The school board appointed her acting superintendent last month after it fired Hill....

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline National Democrats are rethinking their campaign strategy in North Carolina as Republican groups — and even the GOP candidate — pause spending in the state’s open U.S. Senate race. The campaign for Michael Whatley, former chair of the Republican National Committee and North Carolina Republican Party, has...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press Diesel and gas prices in North Carolina have soared in recent months, which experts attribute to ongoing international conflicts, including the US war in Iran and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Diesel in particular reached a record of more than $6 per gallon on average, a first...

Colin Campbell/WUNC News Amid a tough election landscape for Republicans across the country, GOP candidates for the N.C. House are spending on TV ads in districts that haven’t been very competitive in the past. A WUNC News review of FCC campaign advertising disclosures for TV stations in cities across North...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Expanded access to the tax-exempt, red-dyed diesel fuel on the federal and North Carolina level has drawn praise for even the smallest of savings and criticism for barely easing diesel fuel prices that have climbed 72.1% in the state and 71.1% nationally in the last year....

Cooper Metts/Charlotte Business Journal Trammell Crow Co. and Flexential are moving forward with a 296,518-square-foot data storage facility in Salisbury. The Salisbury City Council Oct. 6 approved a rezoning request for a 95.5-acre site at 1477 Henderson Grove Church Road for the project. The approval changes the zoning from light...

Cierra Noffke/WilmingtonBiz Celito Technologies, a Raleigh-based IT services firm and internet provider, has acquired two Wilmington IT firms, CloudWyze and Atlantic Computer Services (ACS). While the firm completed its acquisition of CloudWyze and its managed service assets in the first quarter of the year, it officially acquired ACS on Oct....

Penelope Lopez/WTVD Drivers across North Carolina are feeling the squeeze at the gas pump, even as state lawmakers move to temporarily suspend the gas tax in hopes of providing some relief. The suspension, set to last until the end of the month, comes as gas prices remain high. While the...

Rebekah Mann/The Southern Pines Pilot ​​The N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles License Plate Agency in Aberdeen will close for several weeks, starting 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9. The closure is due to the agency’s contractor,Dawn Burrows-Barber, retiring and choosing not to renew with NCDOT after 42 years of service...

Chris Stiles/The Robesonian N.C. Sen. Danny Britt (R-Dist. 24) and Rep. John Lowery (R-Dist. 47) presented a check to the Robeson County Fair Board on Tuesday for a $100,000 appropriation in the state budget which was passed in July. “The Robeson County Fair is important,” Britt said. “I think agriculture...