WNCN News A month after taking legal action against North Carolina State University over the toxic chemical exposure in Poe Hall, former students and staff have filed a lawsuit against a chemical company connected to the building. Poe Hall has been closed since November 2023 after testing determined the presence...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio The town of Canton could be the latest North Carolina municipality to ban cryptocurrency mining and data centers. Last month, the town board passed a resolution to hold a public hearing on the matter on Feb. 11, after multiple companies contacted community leaders to see...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News The State Board of Education has set its priorities for the upcoming legislative short session, approving a more than $1 billion set of requests for state lawmakers on a split 8-2 vote. The requests include a new special education funding formula, costing about $200 million. They also...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Cumberland County’s leaders want the state legislature to give them $98.5 million for water and sewer construction, school maintenance and construction—including a new E.E. Smith High School—mental health services, construction of a regional aquatics center, and emergency responder equipment. However, they may not ask for the full amount,...

Rachel Crumpler/Carolina Public Press Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and another in an attack at Bertie Correctional Institution. It was the deadliest year for prison staff in state history. Investigations that followed pointed to...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio North Carolina schools saw a decrease in crimes for the third year in a row last school year, according to the latest numbers released Wednesday from the state Department of Public Instruction. The number of crimes reported at North Carolina schools fell by around 6.1% to 11,470....

Clayton Henkel/Coastal Review Online North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says even as snow from last weekend’s storm begins to melt, his office has received a flurry of calls from business owners and lifetime Outer Banks residents upset to see more homes falling into the Atlantic Ocean. The powerful storm,...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio A new audit lists vacant leadership in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools finance department as one of the district’s top challenges in recovering from its financial crisis. Back in September, months after the district’s $46 million deficit was revealed, the State Board of Education voted to hire an...

Chantal Brown/Education NC It may sound cliché, but the idea came about during a typical dinner outing in Durham. Duke University professor Dr. Jan Riggsbee and her colleagues at the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences education program talked about how they could make a difference in schools. The conversation...

Brian Burns/WUNC News This week, PBS North Carolina’s Shaped by Sound returns for a second season. This season will feature 13 performances and interviews from artists from across the state and a variety of genres from indie rock to gospel to jazz. “If this season’s lineup was a festival, I...

Anne Blythe/NC Health News Many health care systems talk about three main pillars of care for treating cancer patients: medical, surgical and radiation oncology. It turns out that having state-of-the-art radiation technology can not only help heal patients, it can also be beneficial to a hospital system’s bottom line. A...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press Elon University is filling a longtime gap in the Charlotte market with the announcement of its new law school program that will accept applications this fall and begin operating in the city in the fall of 2027. The part-time flex program and full-time Juris Doctor program...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog An 88-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery at Mission Hospital died after going 13 hours without receiving a needed blood transfusion. Another patient’s heart stopped for 15 minutes leading to brain damage after staff didn’t respond to an urgent request for heart monitoring. Short-staffed night shift nurses...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News An anonymous payment recently applied to decades-old tax bills owed by a sitting Haywood County commissioner presents the appearance of impropriety and may violate campaign finance law and the Board of Commissioners’ ethics policy. Substantial questions about the payment remain, but at least one thing is...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis is pressing the Department of Homeland Security for answers about the U.S. Border Patrol’s Charlotte operation last November. In a four-page letter sent Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Tillis asked her to turn over detailed records from “Operation Charlotte’s Web.”...