Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A class action lawsuit nine years in the making will finally go before a jury in March 2027. The lawsuit represents more than 180,000 North Carolinians impacted by the Chemours Fayetteville Works plant. The case is being litigated by co-lead counsel, Cohen Milstein, a law firm...

Taylor Knopf/NC Health News In 2014, Angela Diaz was 24 years old and believed she was receiving secret messages from the world around her. She describes being paranoid that her coworkers were watching her and could hear her thoughts. She believed one was sending her secret messages through small things...

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News Seth Kotch is an American studies professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He researches modern American history and his classes range from one on the death penalty to Southern culture. Every year, in his “This Place Called the ‘South'” class, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Seth Kotch kicks off a semester-long...

Tammy Webber & Joshua A. Bickel/The Associated Press The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It’s an idyllic setting in North Carolina’s...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press Moore County is paying more than $50,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over allegations of unnecessary institutionalization of two children by the county’s Department of Social Services, even though the county denies any wrongdoing. The settlement, signed by both parties in May, is the latest development...

Trains The North Carolina Railroad Co. has awarded two $500,000 grants to prepare rail-served industrial sites for future development and has opened applications for the next round of the grant program. Harnett County and Greensboro received the grants under the NCRR’s Build Ready Sites program. “The best time to prepare...

Will Doran/WRAL News Members of N.C. State’s 1983 national championship men’s basketball team told the North Carolina Supreme Court Tuesday that former student-athletes should be paid if their university or the NCAA uses their name, image or likeness — an argument that could lead to compensation for hundreds of former...

Molly Steur/Education NC As teachers across North Carolina finish setting up their classrooms for the new school year, they often spend their own money to fill in the gaps of what is needed for their students. Some teachers share their classroom needs with the public, adding donation requests to a...

Flynn Snyder/WRAL News A committee of Cary Town Council members met Tuesday evening as fallout continues from a recent state auditor’s report that revealed “questionable” spending of taxpayer dollars. For the first time, the committee met to discuss recommendations stemming from several reviews of Cary’s financial practices, including the state...

Lily Levin/Smoky Mountain News Swain County Manager Tommy Dills at a Sept. 1 commission meeting proposed the county purchase 67 Lakeview Drive, colloquially known as the airport property, for nearly $3 million. No tax increase would be necessary, he said, to finance the transaction. Commissioners appeared unanimously onboard with Dills’...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The public has a little more than a month to provide feedback before it’s decided whether the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge will be replaced with a 65-foot movable span bridge or 135-foot fixed bridge. However, the City of Wilmington is forging its own plan after determining...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Five days a week, John Richards drives the roughly 15-minute commute from his rural Beaufort County home to the Bayview Ferry Terminal or, as he calls it, the “working man’s ferry.” The half-hour ferry ride across the Pamlico River to Aurora shaves off about 45 minutes...

Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer One Waynesville councilmember is seeking a legal opinion on what the town can do to better regulate the ever-growing list of new multi-family developments being proposed. Councilmember Jon Feichter asked Town Attorney Martha Bradley to draft a narrow legal opinion on what options Waynesville has to...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog In August, UNC Health Pardee celebrated the opening of a 23-bed adolescent mental health unit. Dozens of people crowded into the future dayroom; standing against walls painted carefully chosen tones of soothing blue and green and sitting in chairs that are too heavy to lift, or throw....

Alex Perri/Smoky Mountain News Jackson County Commissioners voted 4-1 to shoot down a $105 million school bond referendum at a Sept. 1 meeting, leaving county schools in the lurch for funding millions of dollars of capital improvement projects across the district. Now, tough decisions must be made regarding what projects...