Alan Wooten/The Center Square  More than a quarter-billion dollars has been generated for North Carolina coffers by sports wagering revenue since becoming legal in March 2024. January produced the fourth-largest month on record, according to figures from the North Carolina Lottery Commission. With $14,460,977 for state coffers, the 23 months...

Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina only has enough money to repair around 300 of the thousands of private roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Helene, state officials said at a Monday meeting for the Governor’s Recovery Office of Western North Carolina. The state launched the $175 million program...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News Under a mountainside that had slipped again and again, residents of Thistle Ridge faced a grim reality — unstable ground, blocked roads and no clear path forward. For more than four years, bureaucratic delays and shifting priorities left a vital infrastructure fix stalled while families worried...

Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline The Charter School Review Board on Monday unanimously approved a Wake County charter school’s request to separate its virtual program into a standalone charter school. The decision allows Pine Springs’ Virtual Academy, which enrolls more than 3,500 students from across the state, to break away from Pine...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press A months-long saga has unfolded surrounding the Cleveland County Board of Education’s decision not only about selling a shuttered school building but also about the buyer. The board has opted to forgo traditional bidding processes in order for the building to land in the hands of...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC Reports of crime and violence in North Carolina public schools decreased during the 2024-25 school year for the second consecutive year, according to an annual report from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) presented to the State Board of Education this week. The report — which...

Andrew Jones/Asheville Watchdog On a 15-degree morning in January, a clinic in this small Yancey County community on the northern edge of Pisgah National Forest began to fill up with patients. An older couple in flannel pajamas sat together in the waiting room. A toddler waved as Patricia Hall walked...

Destinee Patterson/WRAL News Empty units sit side-by-side in Camelot Village seven months after Tropical Storm Chantal rocked Chapel Hill. One condo owner said the community has largely turned into a ghost town. Both renters and owners are wondering when it will come back to life. “I hope that progress will...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Wilmington City Council is already contemplating a property tax rate increase to take effect this July, which could be in the range of 4 cents to complete capital projects and boost personnel pay — and that doesn’t include potential budget increases still to come. On...

Michael Koh/WCHL Chapelboro The ACC has fined UNC $50,000 after fans rushed the floor twice during the Tar Heels’ 71-68 win against No. 4 Duke at the Smith Center Saturday night. “The conference’s event security policy is designed to protect the safety and well-being of all student-athletes, coaches, officials and...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Students at three North Carolina universities who had gone to court to get early voting sites on their campuses will likely not have any during this primary election, after a federal district court judge ruled against them on Sunday. The College Democrats of North Carolina and...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Three months after an immigration enforcement crackdown in Charlotte left much of the city shaken, it’s still difficult to get clear answers about what federal law enforcement agents did. That includes who was arrested, where people were taken and why. Last November, U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

Ella Moore/The Duke Chronicle On Friday evening, around 40 demonstrators from Duke’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the student-run Duke Sunrise Movement, the Union of Southern Service Workers and seven other advocacy organizations gathered on East Campus to protest the University’s cost-cutting measures and demand Duke become...

Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News Inside a lab at North Carolina State University, large metal tanks hum as microorganisms grow inside a carefully controlled environment. It looks a bit like brewing beer — but instead of alcohol, these microbes can be used to make medicines like insulin, injectable cancer drugs and newer...

Jay Price/WUNC News Department of Veterans Affairs nurses demonstrate outside the Durham, N.C. VA Medical Center in April 2025 to protest proposed staffing cuts. According to Senate Democrats, the VA lost tens of thousands of workers in the past year, many from health care jobs. Leaders at the Department of...