Rachel Keith/WHQR On Monday, New Hanover County Commissioners voted 3-2 along partisan lines to provide $1 million in support of a new city park off Greenville Loop Road. Democratic commissioners voted against the proposal over concerns about cost and transparency. The vote secures a three-way collaboration between the City of...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Emotions were high Wednesday night at a public hearing where the Town of Canton’s Board of Aldermen passed a 12-month moratorium on new data center development, server farms and cryptocurrency mining. The hearing was more preventative than reactive. It was prompted by inquiries from out-of-town...

Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News A fire marshal intervention that shut down a Wake County school last month has left families scrambling to find other school options, students learning virtually for weeks, and families wondering why no one had flagged the school as unsafe years ago. Records obtained by WRAL News and...

WSOCTV News Lancaster County has started narrowing down its search for a new school superintendent. The board of trustees is working with the state school board association in the search, officials said. The South Carolina School Board Association turned in a list of more than 20 applicants last week. Lancaster...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Wilmington-headquartered coffee chain Port City Java is now under new ownership. As of Jan. 30, the company began operating under the ownership of PCJ Holdings LLC, according to a news release from the company. A company representative declined to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition or the...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Dominion Energy’s 2.6-gigawatt offshore wind project based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, which was ordered by the Trump administration to stop work right before Christmas, has resumed the project and is now on track for completion by early 2027. But the 26-day shutdown of Coastal Virginia Offshore...

Haylee Kennedy/WNCN Some Wake County parents are raising concerns about the company that takes their children’s school photos after a connection was made in the newly unsealed Jefferey Epstein files. Rene Barton’s son has picture day tomorrow; however, he will not be participating with the rest of his class. “What...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press No, it’s not a scam. The North Carolina State Board of Elections sent letters to 241,000 voters in early February as part of a new effort to improve voter roll accuracy. The letters requested certain voters’ birthdays, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of...

Jaclyn Diaz & Cheryl Corley/NPR The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and in the 1980s reshaped Democratic politics with two galvanizing presidential campaigns, died Tuesday at the age of 84. “Our father was a servant...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The City of Wilmington’s initiative to create a park out of 25 acres on Greenville Loop Road narrowly received approval from purchasing partner New Hanover County on Monday. Some commissioners raised concerns over transparency in the sale process. The county commissioners ultimately voted 3-2, with Democrats...

Louis Van Boxel-Woolf/Barron’s German agrichemical giant Bayer said Tuesday its subsidiary Monsanto had proposed a class settlement of up to $7.25 billion to settle claims that the Roundup weedkiller causes blood cancer, potentially drawing a line under years of costly litigation. Under the proposed agreement, Monsanto would make a series...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer This winter’s brutal temperatures have taken a toll on utility bills across the county. As temperatures dropped, heaters kicked on and stayed on — driving up energy usage and costs. “The last month has been cold, and many have said their heaters haven’t turned off in...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro Some Chatham County residents are speaking out against Pittsboro’s use of Flock license-plate cameras, citing privacy concerns. The surveillance technology by Flock Safety largely aims to help local police identify suspects and locate missing persons by taking still images of a vehicle’s “distinguishing features,” including the license...

Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times At a Feb. 13 candidate forum hosted by a local business group, the three candidates for Buncombe County District Attorney discussed violent crime, homelessness, case backlogs, relationships with law enforcement and jail capacity — each making their case to lead the office. All are Democrats, with...

Juliet Loffredo/The Daily Tar Heel After Chancellor Lee Roberts announced on Jan. 21  that UNC would move forward with the development of Carolina North, a satellite campus 2 miles off of UNC’s main campus, some community members have raised concerns about the construction project’s potential impacts on the Carolina North...