Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press After North Carolina voters choose their candidates, they will see at least three more questions at the bottom of their ballot this fall. These are ballot referendums, or policy questions sent to the voters to decide. State lawmakers are asking voters to decide whether three amendments...

John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog After five years of litigation, the City of Asheville and its insurers have agreed to pay $11 million to the wife of a crash victim who was killed on Riverside Drive in a collision blamed on poor drainage that caused an ice slick to form. Two construction...

Skye Crawford/NC Health News   Before opening what is widely recognized as the first LGBTQ+ senior co-housing community in the U.S., Pat McAulay spent a lot of time at the beach, dreaming. McAulay and her wife, Margaret Roesch, who dreamed alongside her, knew the idea of aging in community wasn’t...

Dasia Williams/CityView The Cumberland County Board of Education unanimously advanced a policy Tuesday that allows students to leave school one hour per week for religious instruction. The board voted 8-0 to approve the first reading of a revision to its “Religious-Based Exemption from School Programs” policy. The revision will receive...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio The Thomasville City Schools Board of Education has approved a new superintendent. Shayla Wiggins Savage will assume the role on Oct. 7. She’s worked in the state’s public education system for more than twenty years. Most recently, she served as the chief student services officer in Iredell-Statesville...

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger The compensation of Charlotte-based Atrium Health’s top executives rose by an average of 21 percent in 2025, according to newly released records, as the hospital giant seeks to combine with Raleigh-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals. The executive compensation report from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education members are calling for changes to how the district educates students with disabilities amid worsening outcomes. The discussion came up at a meeting this week. District officials presented Exceptional Children (EC) data from the 2024-25 school year. Reading and math proficiency rates...

Dan Kane & Nolan Wilkinson/The Raleigh News & Observer Since 2023, state lawmakers have been made aware that Wake County and many other North Carolina prosecutorial districts are in need of more assistant district attorneys. Wake alone has 45 prosecutors when a study says it should have 70. But in...

Annette Weston/WFAE Radio Jeanette Vitullo lived in North Carolina until she was six years old, seemingly healthy. But decades later, in 2003, her health took a sharp downturn. Her body began to fail, and doctors were completely baffled as her organs began shutting down, landing her on life support. For...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press Fayetteville State University may be among the smaller public institutions in North Carolina, but it’s punching above its weight. With the onset of the academic year, the university is celebrating historic benchmarks like 80.7% student retention and the enrollment of more than 7,700 students. Both are...

Travis Bland/WUNC News Raleigh is exploring an ambitious new greenway to connect downtown to Dix Park. Called The Oakline, the path would begin in front of the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts and run through the future Salisbury Square development and the City Gateway area where the Mira...

Ally Kadlubar/WRAL News The town of Zebulon said it is learning more reasons why it is on a list of municipalities that will face increased scrutiny from the state going forward. In July, a state audit revealed the town lacked internal controls to effectively manage its finances and overspent from...

Andrew Tangel & Hanna Krueger/The Wall Street Journal More than a minute before a Boeing 767 landed at a Miami airport Sunday, a pilot warned that the aircraft was approaching too fast, followed by electronic cockpit warnings. The Amazon cargo jet nevertheless continued its approach and touched down at roughly...

Sophia DePhillips/Port City Daily One month after Brad George left the Pender County Board of Commissioners, his seat remains vacant after commissioners tabled the appointment of his replacement — Beth Burns — in light of another challenge to her ascendancy. Burns was scheduled to be appointed to the open District...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The Chatham Mills property in Pittsboro is under new ownership. Local entrepreneur Chris Ehrenfeld — the owner and CEO of BOLD Companies — purchased the 28-acre property off Hillsboro Street on September 3, which have operated as a retail center since 1997. He also bought a 3.64...