Walker Livingston/Carolina Public Press HCA-owned Mission Hospital in Asheville has received four “immediate jeopardy” warnings from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the past five years. This warning, the most serious from CMS, means that a medical service provider has caused, or is likely to cause, harm...

Ana Risano/The Southern Pines Pilot Southern Pines Fire Station Two is across the road from the Moore County Airport, making it a key player in any airport-related emergencies and future planning as commercial air service is sought. On Tuesday, Fire Chief and Assistant Town Manager Mike Cameron gave the Town...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News As unaffiliated voters have overtaken Republicans and Democrats as the largest voting group in the state, candidates running outside of the two major party apparatuses still struggle in elections, but several Western North Carolina candidates hope to change that narrative. There are four unaffiliated contenders in...

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline A new study is refuting claims by critics that the solar industry is taking over productive farmland and interfering with agricultural production. “You travel across the state of North Carolina, and it’s occupying the best farmland in the state,” said N.C. House Agriculture Chairman Jimmy Dixon (R-Duplin)...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Many Latino residents in Mecklenburg County still face significant barriers to accessing health care. That’s what community members heard Friday at the Mecklenburg County Health Department’s annual Meck Design conference, where officials presented the department’s 2025 Community Needs Assessment, which in part focused on Latino health outcomes....

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Nearly four months after receiving objections from state officials over the proposed deepening of the Cape Fear River shipping channel, the Army Corps of Engineers is continuing to revise its environmental and feasibility review of the proposed deepening of Wilmington’s harbor. David Connolly, spokesperson with the...

Becky Johnson & Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer  A troubling trend is playing out at fire departments across the region: new recruits are few and far between, and can’t keep pace with retirements and resignations. “Three years ago, we would have had 20 applications within a week and a half,” said...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press An artificial intelligence and social media safety bill more than a year in the making is progressing toward passage after receiving unanimous, bipartisan support in the latest vote on it by the North Carolina Senate. House Bill 301 would overhaul current standards of AI in schools,...

Carrie Johnson/NPR The Supreme Court agreed to shield Monsanto from liability over its popular weed killer Roundup, dealing a victory to the company’s new owner as it struggles to resolve thousands of costly lawsuits from people who claim the key ingredient caused their cancers. The central issue in the case,...

Joe Gould/NOTUS Republican Sen. Thom Tillis lambasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over reports that the Pentagon chief is forcing the retirement of Gen. Christopher “C.D.” Donahue, calling the move an example of the Cabinet member’s “paranoia” and “inexperience.” Tillis told NOTUS that pushing out one of the Army’s most celebrated...

Will Atwater/NC Health News In recent years, North Carolina environmentalists and researchers have raised more red flags about how much plastic debris is accumulating in the environment — in creeks and parks and on roadsides. This comes alongside awareness of how those plastics are increasingly showing up inside the human...

Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise A technology company confirmed Wednesday that it will not go forward with development of a proposed data center in north High Point. DC Blox did not cite a reason for withdrawing its plans for what was touted as a potential $300 million project, which would have...

Baron James/WNCN North Carolina is getting millions more in new federal funding to keep the S-line corridor project on track. As state and federal leaders Wednesday toured the Durant Road grade separation project in North Raleigh, they praised the project’s progress report as part of a much bigger plan—to create...

Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog In the nonprofit world, disaster-inspired surges in charity are called “episodic giving,” and Tropical Storm Helene was like no other episode in recent memory. In the aftermath of the September 2024 storm, contributions at least doubled at six local nonprofits with major roles in recovery and, at...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Under pressure from state Sen. Tom McInnis, Fayetteville city council members and Cumberland County commissioners have been meeting this week to negotiate how the two governments could merge their 911 call centers. They hope to reach an agreement by next week in what has been a long-running, fraught...