Kim Grizzard/The Greenville Reflector ECU is canceling plans to build a new chancellor’s residence near campus after Chancellor Philip Rogers purchased a $1.2 million home near Grimesland. Rogers and his wife, Rebekah, bought a house at 1171 Seasons End Lane in late June. The approximately 4,000-square-foot home is located in...

WTVD News Travelers passing through Raleigh-Durham International Airport now have several new dining options to choose from. RDU held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of five new restaurants in Terminal 2 Thursday as part of the airport’s ongoing modernization efforts. The new additions include Adios! from former Top...

Taylor Sisk/Education NC Holly Warren was recently leafing through one of her old medical school textbooks, trying to recall how much instruction she’d received in addiction medicine — trying to recall, “Did we even talk about this? Was it even on our radar?” “And it really just wasn’t,” Warren said....

Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality staff are in the process of updating the state’s long-term strategy to protect coastal habitat, a necessity for a sustainable seafood industry. According to the strategy called the Coastal Habitat Protection Plan, or CHPP, the need for a coastwide habitat...

Chris Stiles/The Robesonian The Robeson County budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year, which was approved by the county’s Board of Commissioners in June and took effect on July 1, saw an overall increase of just over 7.5%, with increases for the General Fund and Water Fund among the highlights. “It’s...

Colin Campbell/WUNC News  Public schools in North Carolina are facing billions of dollars in unfunded school construction projects, and a lottery-supported grant program is only able to address a fraction of the requests it receives. As one of the state’s poorest school districts, Halifax County hasn’t had enough funding to...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The controversy over the proposed toll lane on Interstate 77 in south Charlotte has been raging for seven months. And it’s far from over. The new Republican-written state budget includes a provision meant to get the toll lanes back on track. If Charlotte and other local governments...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press The long-awaited state budget signed by Gov. Josh Stein last week included a number of provisions for the state’s private schools and Opportunity Scholarship Program, including reallocating some funds from the voucher program back to public schools. Researchers and critics of North Carolina’s private school vouchers...

Will Doran/WRAL News Earlier this year State Auditor Dave Boliek put a former leader of the North Carolina Republican Party, Dallas Woodhouse, in charge of overseeing county elections boards. Woodhouse resigned last week amid allegations of putting pressure on some of those boards to make partisan decisions for how voting...

Skye Crawford/NC Health News Ben Ingraham wanted to be a doctor. He planned to attend medical school after serving as a U.S. Navy corpsman, but his time in the military was unexpectedly cut short. A traumatic brain injury and a leg injury forced him to medically retire. While in therapy...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily Within 10 miles of Sledge Forest, a limestone quarry has been proposed for expansion much to the chagrin of neighbors and environmentalists. At a  public hearing on July 14, speakers raised concerns about irreparable damage to the local environment. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s...

Chloe Courtney Bohl/IndyWeek A Wake County initiative announced Monday sets an ambitious goal of moving 400 people from homeless encampments into housing in the next 18 months. Led by the Wake County Continuum of Care (CoC), the county’s umbrella organization for homeless services, with help from local government and private...

Molly Steur/Education NC A new career pathways program at Appalachian State University will kick off this fall, designed to “address the shortage of special education teachers in rural Appalachia,” according to a recent article from Appalachian Today. The program is funded by a more than $1.4 million grant from the...

Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline “If we don’t get a handle on this, the consequences may become fatal.” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Estella Patterson told the city council’s safety committee Tuesday that “teen takeovers” have become a growing problem nationwide. It works like this: A post appears on social media inviting youth to...

Matt Lamb/The Southern Pines Pilot After nearly six months and over a dozen court filings, Clerk of Superior Court Todd Maness and District Court Judge Beth Tanner have reached a settlement agreement for their ongoing litigation. Maness agreed to drop his defamation suit against Tanner, and Tanner has dropped her...