Johnny Edwards/The Center Square  A southern state that banned medical gender transition for children is funding a network of doctors and therapists who promote some of those same controversial treatments, an investigation by The Center Square found. A nonprofit called Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group openly touts puberty blockers and cross-sex...

WRAL News North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek said Tuesday his team is reviewing more town credit card statements and internal emails from Cary officials as his office’s probe of the town’s financial practices remains open. Boliek met with the Cary Rotary Club on Tuesday to discuss the state’s findings...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press Two Triangle-area representatives in the US House, Reps. Deborah Ross and Valerie Foushee, have proposed federal legislation that would reauthorize Title VI of the Higher Education Act, supporting foreign language and international study programs at universities across the country. The bill would make changes nationwide, but...

Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online Preparing for future hazards by strengthening resilience to natural disasters across the state is one of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s top priorities, Secretary Reid Wilson told a few dozen Monday morning at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center on Harkers Island....

Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer They came on bikes and scooters. They came on rollerblades and skateboards. They came on BMX and dirt jumpers. And they came in a big way. From little tykes and teens to dads and big-air pros, hundreds poured into Raccoon Creek Bike Park for opening day...

Ray Allegrezza/Furniture Today When manufacturers announce a major expansion, the story is usually told in numbers: Dollars invested. Square footage added. Jobs promised. But buildings don’t operate machinery. Incentive packages can’t run extrusion lines. And hiring hundreds of people in a community where a company has never operated takes more...

DeJuan Hoggard/WTVD North Carolina Central University marked a historic milestone Monday with the grand opening of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research, becoming the first HBCU in the nation to launch a dedicated AI research center. The 5,000-square-foot facility, located on the northwest corner of Fayetteville and Lawson...

Jane Winik Sartwell/The Raleigh News & Observer Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill are using the services of data analytics giant Palantir as part of a federal project to amass a huge data set of health information from consenting Americans. The goal of the project, funded by the National Institutes of Health...

Cris Tolomia/Quartz Target $TGT +0.18% named Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer on Tuesday, adding a dedicated executive to coordinate the retailer’s artificial intelligence efforts across its business. Nair will join Target on Aug. 24 as senior vice president and chief AI officer, the company said. He spent...

Emily Walkenhorst & Destinee Patterson/WRAL News Wake County teachers earn less on average than their peers in comparable southeastern metropolitan areas, a WRAL News data analysis shows. That’s despite a recent state budget that drastically boosted early career teacher pay and provided more modest pay increases for more experienced teachers....

Johnny Edwards/The Center Square  A southern state that banned medical gender transition for children is funding a network of doctors and therapists who promote some of those same controversial treatments, an investigation by The Center Square found. A nonprofit called Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group openly touts puberty blockers and cross-sex...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio A group of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools parents is making a push for six specific policy changes before the new school year begins, aimed at limiting technology use in CMS classrooms. Leading the charge is Sherri Bissell, president of the Collinswood Language Academy PTA and a leader of the...

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline Environmental activists and a Democratic state lawmaker are calling on Duke Energy to lower its rate hike request as the North Carolina Utilities Commission reviews its case. Evidentiary hearings for Duke Energy Progress’ rate case start this week before the Utilities Commission, which will determine how much...

Ana Risano/The Southern Pines Pilot The eclectic Dunrovin Country Store off U.S. 1 in Vass was heavily damaged by a fire that lasted several hours on Saturday night. “It’s been very devastating,” said owner Patrick Milcendeau while at the store Monday afternoon. “I worked seven days a week from morning...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The Fayetteville City Council, after a sometimes contentious meeting on Monday, voted 7-3 to have city staff revise proposed regulations for data centers and reconsider them by late October. The council meeting, which also included a public hearing, included sharp words between Councilmember Shaun McMillan, who wants a...