Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily One local beach town is trying out a new tactic to entice jobseekers to its doorsteps, following a request for action from its town manager. Earlier this week, the Carolina Beach Town Council voted unanimously in favor of increasing merit raises from 2% to 4% to...

Bill Moss & Amy B. McCraw/Hendersonville Lightning Amid more than 20 charges of alleged child-sex abuse that suggest a moral bankruptcy at Only Hope WNC, the nonprofit agency has filed a petition to liquidate its assets and pay creditors the proceeds. The last remaining leaders of the organization founded by...

Elena Marsh/The Southern Pines Pilot The Moore County Board of Commissioners is still exploring the feasibility of a few future water sources. The current preferred option, a reservoir at Crystal Lake, would provide an asset the county owns outright, but it is not without its challenges. At a work session...

Jose Sandoval/Blue Ridge Public Radio Several dozen UNC Asheville students and community members gathered outside of Highsmith Student Union on Friday to protest the development of portions of the Millennial Campus property, which includes 45 acres of urban forest. The walk-out was organized by local artist Spenser Beals who got...

Outer Banks Voice A Jan. 15 story on NC Local reports that Immigration and Customers Enforcement agents (ICE) arrested more than 3,300 people in North Carolina between President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 and Oct. 15, 2025.  The data show that very few of those arrests have occurred on the...

Ben Briscoe/WFMY News New research shows tariffs are costing North Carolina farmers nearly $700 million and threatening thousands of jobs. Tariffs designed to protect American manufacturing are having an unintended side effect for North Carolina farmers driving up costs and shrinking overseas markets. On his farm, Mike Jones says the...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press For months, Adrian Pitts followed the news with bated breath as Congress fought — and eventually shut down the federal government — over whether to extend COVID-era subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace health plans. Pitts, a 57-year-old small business owner and Hendersonville resident, was one...

Sydney Lupkin/WUNC News Since September, 16 major drug companies have inked deals with the Trump administration to lower prices. But in January — the time of year when pharmaceutical companies typically roll out price hikes — all 16 companies released higher list prices for some of their drugs. The agreements,...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Restoring land as close to how it was more than two centuries ago is by no means a cheap venture. Just ask Louis Moore Bacon. Since 2012, Bacon has invested more than $100 million in the property on which his ancestor, Roger Moore, founded Orton Plantation...

Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer An election for register of deeds is often overlooked as a sleeper race, but in Haywood County, the race has taken an interesting turn — with the sanctity of the county’s property deeds and vital records on the line. On one side is an experienced, stalwart...

Nick Fogleman/Watauga Democrat The Town of Boone Planning Board unanimously recommended approval of a multi-family housing development on Greenway Road following a lengthy public hearing that focused on parking, traffic, stormwater and the environmental remediation of a former industrial brownfield site. Representatives of RK Investments presented a design for the...

Kristen Blair/Education NC North Carolina’s Charter Schools Review Board (CSRB) approved renewals for 37 charter schools at its meeting on Monday, Jan. 12. The schools comprise nearly 18% of the state’s 211 charter schools and represent the “largest number of renewals” in recent years, according to Bruce Friend, the CSRB’s...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise The city’s jobless rate edged up in November but still remained within the parameters of a healthy job market. The rate was 4.9%, up from 4.5% in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That also compares to and 4.2% in November...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily New Hanover County commissioners agreed Thursday to seek a third-party to evaluate its landfill operations, as 30 years remain on the site’s life without any space to expand. Director of Recycling and Solid Waste Joy Suleyman told commissioners Thursday a consultant would bring in “a fresh...

WFDD Radio Federal prosecutors have revealed a sprawling scheme to rig college basketball games while yielding big payouts to gamblers. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday, fixers started with two professional games in China before turning their focus to recruiting college players in America to participate in similar point-shaving efforts...