WWAY News One of North Carolina’s most recognizable offshore landmarks has received a major upgrade, thanks in part to a Wilmington business that took on a challenging project far from shore. A team from Tint World Automotive Styling Center recently completed a specialized window film installation at the historic Frying...

Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio Cases of the explosive diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis parasite in North Carolina are on the rise because of a widespread outbreak linked to produce. The state health department is now reporting at least 561 cases since May 1. For context, that’s almost twice the total for North Carolina in...

WCNC News The largest roller coaster at Carowinds is back in operation after repairs were made that shut it down for two weeks, WCNC Charlotte reports. Fury 325 was closed for a foundation issue on July 7. Carowinds officials said that a slight change in the foundation surrounding one of...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView A proposal to rezone 123 acres on Country Club Drive near Murchison Road drew sharp pushback from residents who live beside the wooded basin and said expanding industrial activity so close to their homes could permanently alter the character of the area. Fayetteville’s Zoning Commission, a five-member...

Martin Moya/The Robesonian UNC Health Southeastern will soon be at the forefront of a groundbreaking medical research project, one that began with a simple but remarkable observation made in the hospital’s Special Care Nursery. Nurses caring for newborns with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome noticed something striking; babies experiencing withdrawal cry differently...

Brian Gordon/The Raleigh News & Observer Durham energy firm American Efficient has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy three months after federal regulators accused the company of operating “a brazen fraud scheme.” In its bankruptcy filing Saturday in the Western District of North Carolina, the company valued its current assets at between...

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline State Attorney General Jeff Jackson is continuing to oppose the Environmental Protection Agency loosening restrictions on toxic chemicals in drinking water. Jackson led the attorneys general of 17 other states and the District of Columbia in writing a 17-page letter to EPA administrator Lee Zeldin asking him...

Kayla Bradshaw/Asheville Watchdog Democratic congressional candidate Jamie Ager outraised U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards by a nearly 9-to-1 margin in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest federal campaign financial reports, threatening the incumbent Republican in a district that historically has favored Republicans. The reports filed with the...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News When Joe French’s great-grandfather started his family farm back in the 1890s, he went with a central crop with a proven record: tobacco. It served the family well for several decades, right up until the 1990s when tobacco reforms made it harder for small farmers to profit...

Destinee Patterson/WRAL News Shaw students have limited housing options for the upcoming school year. The university confirmed to WRAL Investigates that Dimple Newsome is not expected to reopen until next year. It comes after a fire shut down the dorm in February. A parent shared a university message with WRAL...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio For more than 30 years, Charlotte and other municipalities have set goals to ensure their contractors hire minority- and women-owned businesses. But a provision in the state budget approved this month ends the ability of local governments to require participation by minority- and women-owned businesses in public...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Efforts by a Gray’s Creek chiropractor to form a town in the southern Cumberland County community ran into doubts and hostility during a community meeting he held last week. So Robb Twaddell is pausing his SimCity dream to incorporate the Town of Gray’s Creek in 2027. But he...

WSOCTV News A provision in North Carolina’s newly approved state budget has delayed Charlotte Water’s plans to expand water transfers from the Catawba River basin to the Rocky River basin until at least 2028. The budget places a temporary moratorium on new interbasin water transfer approvals while the University of...

Mebane Rash/Education NC The State Board of Community Colleges met last week and considered in closed session four finalists for president and CEO of the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS). The four candidates were ranked by the search committee and previously met with the executive committee of the Board....

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press One stop on what Karen Willis Amspacher calls her ghost tour is a cemetery in Davis, an unincorporated Carteret County community of about 250 and once a thriving commercial fishing hub. Near the edge of the Core Sound on the Down East peninsula, the burial ground...