Julian Berger/WFAE Radio CVS Health announced Tuesday it will invest more than $2.2 million to expand access to community-based health care and healthy food in Charlotte’s Historic West End. The funding will support a new CVS Health “Health Zone” in west Charlotte, with the investment going to the Westside Wellness...

Ashley Murray/NC Newsline Electricity rates “increased significantly” in nearly every U.S. state in 2025, with residents in a dozen states seeing at least a 10% jump, according to a congressional report released by Democrats Tuesday. Minority members of the Joint Economic Committee released state-by-state figures from monthly utility bill data...

Kelly Kenoyer/WHQR The legal memo related to Leland’s laptop dust-up in February is out, and indicates that the efforts to circumvent city staff to procure a laptop were potentially unlawful. But, intervention by the town manager to stop that process prevented any illegal action from occurring, the memo notes. That...

Annie Dance/The Carolina Journal Leaders guiding long-term recovery efforts for western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene are exploring a sweeping strategy to attract private investment, rebuild infrastructure, and strengthen the region’s workforce pipeline as communities continue to recover from storm damage and economic disruption. Members of the Governor’s Recovery Office...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Voter registrations in North Carolina remain down for a fourth consecutive week, according to the State Board of Elections. The trend includes each of the major voting blocs. Because of work for the county boards of election leading up to the primary and coming out of...

Jamiese Price & Bianca Holman/WTVD News Disruptions at Raleigh-Durham International Airport are expected to worsen in the coming days. A source told ABC11 that nearly half a dozen TSA workers at RDU have submitted their notices to leave, and the number is expected to grow in the days ahead. As...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Middle and high school basketball players from North and South Carolina gathered recently at the historic Second Ward High School Gymnasium in uptown Charlotte for a showcase that blended competition with education — and highlighted the growing role of money in all levels of youth sport. The...

Matt Lamb/The Southern Pines Pilot When the N.C. Department of Transportation said its latest design for the historic Pinehurst Traffic Circle was its final offering, the organization meant it, according to a recent response it sent to Pinehurst officials. Last month, the Village Council submitted a resolution to DOT lauding...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press How do you put a price on a 122-year-old mass of concrete sitting in the middle of a river? The value of Craggy Dam on the French Broad River in Buncombe County is now at the center of a debate over river restoration, flood mitigation, power...

Paul Woolverton/CityView As Cumberland County employees work to convert a former parking lot in front of the county courthouse into a temporary greenspace, the county commissioners are looking for ways to replace the 204 parking spaces that used to be there. At the same time, commissioners are still seeking to...

WSOCTV News Golf lovers in Mecklenburg County won’t be yelling fore over a county commission vote Tuesday night. Commissioners are set to vote on $1.6 million worth of improvements to county golf courses. They will be at Charles T. Myers, Charles Sifford, Harry Jones, Sunset Hills, and Tradition Golf Courses....

Emiilie Megnien & Rio Yamat/The Associated Press Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Monday as powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and a partial government shutdown affecting airport security screeners dragged into a second month. The disruptions come at an already challenging...

Greg Childress/NC Newsline Community groups and Walnut Grove residents in Stokes County are suing the county to block a large hyperscale data center complex, known as Project Delta, that they say will harm environmentally sensitive areas along the Dan River corridor, damage sacred cultural sites and threaten the region’s rural...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh Wiley Nickel, Wake County’s district attorney in waiting, says he wants to use the next 10 months before he assumes the role of DA to secure more resources for the office. The top priority, he told Axios, is to significantly increase the number of prosecutors working in...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online It’s been nearly a month since a video first aired of Wilmington’s mayor invoking residents to voice their opposition to one town’s plans to pull millions of gallons of water daily from the Cape Fear River. “Today this vital resource is under threat from growing water-hungry...