Will Michaels/WFAE Radio When Gov. Josh Stein signed a bipartisan bill limiting how students could use their cellphones in schools last year, the North Carolina Parent Teacher Association celebrated. “Public schools in North Carolina are now cellphone-free zones,” the organization said in a Facebook post last July. But a closer...

Mary Helen Moore/Axios Raleigh Half the shrimp marketed as “wild-caught American” at Outer Banks restaurants last month was actually imported, according to genetic testing by SeaD Consulting. Why it matters: Consumers often pay premium prices at the coast expecting genuine U.S.-caught shrimp, even as cheaper imported shrimp dominates the wider...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A city-proposed zoning amendment to regulate data centers in Southport drew backlash as residents questioned why a ban wasn’t on the table. However, no amendment was recommended by the Southport Planning Board this week, which instead voted unanimously to suggest a 15-month moratorium to aldermen. On...

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...

Savannah Peters, Rodney Overton & Mary Smith/The Associated Press Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall to include North Carolina for iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico over a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened hundreds in the Raleigh area and others across the United...

Savannah Peters, Rodney Overton & Mary Smith/The Associated Press Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall to include North Carolina for iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico over a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened hundreds in the Raleigh area and others across the United...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square Leadership in North Carolina’s seventh largest municipality, all Democrats on the Town Council and in the mayor’s office, have been recommended to “reengineer the environment” displayed in an auditor’s report showing lavish spending, unchecked VISA card use by town employees and a lack of financial oversight....

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline State Attorney General Jeff Jackson is asking North Carolinians to comment on what he’s calling a “backroom PFAS deal” between the Environmental Protection Agency and chemical manufacturer Chemours. Chemours, formerly part of DuPont, has been manufacturing chemicals on the Cape Fear river near Fayetteville for decades. In...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Friday marks one month since Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Crystal Hill was placed on paid leave pending an outside investigation, and there’s still no official word on the results, status or focus of that inquiry. The CMS board announced Hill’s suspension on June 17, citing “matters involving administrative...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView More than 150 business leaders, elected officials, academics, students, and young professionals gathered Wednesday at Fayetteville State University (FSU) for the inaugural Fayetteville Newsmakers. The civic dialoguet—presented by CityView and the News Foundation of Greater Fayetteville—centered on a single question: Where is Fayetteville and Cumberland County’s next...

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...