Bradley George/WUNC News North Carolina’s infrastructure gets a C- in a new report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The report card’s authors looked at the condition of stormwater, wastewater, dams, roads, bridges, drinking water, and aviation. One area of concern is making sure water utilities can...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press A NC A&T student came up to county elections board Democrat Carolyn Bunker in tears after the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ January meeting. The board had just voted 3-2 to exclude two Guilford County college campuses from early voting primary plans. Unlike many of...

Mebane Rash/Education NC In celebration of National School Choice Week, the U.S. Departments of Education and Treasury released a joint fact sheet on the federal education tax cut on Tuesday, which was included in Sec. 70411 of the federal budget reconciliation bill and signed into law by President Donald Trump...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Since Terry Ramey was elected to the county commission in 2022, his property tax records have haunted him. But an anonymous donation may have settled the matter once and for all. When Ramey was elected, he had about $2,100 of unpaid property taxes and interest, which...

Smoky Mountain News The boards of county commissioners and county supervisors in the 17 counties in North Carolina and 12 counties in Virginia that host the Blue Ridge Parkway have passed resolutions of support calling for funding to repair the national park and implement the Blue Ridge Rising Action Plan....

Bob Liepa/Wilmington StarNews The perception of crime, homelessness, aggressive panhandling and the cost of parking is taking a bite out of small businesses in downtown Wilmington. So says Tom Harris, one of the owners of Front Street Brewery at 9 North Front St. Now he hopes a meeting with the...

WRAL News State elections officials agreed Wednesday to delay a legal hearing on the eligibility of a Republican running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, who is alleged to live out of state. Elections officials have been investigating whether Margot Dupre is actually a Florida resident following a complaint by...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A popular coastal town is once again looking to restructure rates in its parking program, which could come with an increase for hourly parkers on the weekend, but a decrease for weekday visitors. Wrightsville Beach held its budget meeting between town staff and the board of...

Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio A measles outbreak centered in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has become the largest in the nation in more than two decades, according to state health officials. The state on Tuesday reported nearly 790 cases tied to the outbreak, which began in October — surpassing an...

Guy Lucas/The High Point Enterprise Bethany Medical and founder Dr. Lenny Peters have agreed to pay more than $8.8 million to resolve allegations of submitting bills to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Tuesday. Peters was accused by state and...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Canton is finally taking a stand on crypto mining, trailing three years behind Waynesville and Haywood County on taking steps to prevent the controversial facilities. Canton is considering a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining, data center operations and server farms. The moratorium would freeze any applications or...

Caroline Yaffa & Will Doran/WRAL News North Carolinians scrambled to find generators ahead of this weekend’s ice and snow. Now questions are resurfacing about whether the state should adopt laws to better protect the power grid. The answers may lie in other states, such as Texas, which also dealt with...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A judge has upheld a ban on commercial boat slip rentals at the Riverwalk Condominiums, while allowing one downtown tour company to continue operating amid a years-long legal dispute. New Hanover County Superior Court Judge George Jones signed an order maintaining a ban on commercial boat...

Zachery Eanes/Axios On the same day that UNC-Chapel Hill announced it would proceed with developing its Carolina North satellite campus, the town of Chapel Hill also passed a sweeping set of reforms meant to make it easier to build new housing in the town. Why it matters: Local leaders hope...

Katherine Zehnder/The Carolina Journal On Jan. 22, US Rep. Greg Murphy, MD,  R-NC3, introduced the “Buying American Cotton Act,” which would create a tax credit to incentivize the purchase of products made with American-grown cotton. “American cotton growers, especially those in Eastern North Carolina, play a critical role in our...