Joshua Bay/Inside Higher Ed What was once an underused mobile app at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been rebuilt to serve as a central hub for student information and services. The app, Hello Heels, was relaunched during first-year orientation last fall after undergoing a redesign following...

Taylor Ford & Nixon Norman/WFMY News A longtime Greensboro civil rights activist and housing advocate whose work helped shape the city for generations has died. Willena R. Cannon, a tireless advocate for justice and community change, died Saturday at her home in Greensboro after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according...

Janet Briggs/The Salisbury Post     The Ford City Motor Lofts project at 419 South Main Street recently received a $500,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. This grant will cover some of the unexpected increased construction costs since the project started. The Ford City Motor Lofts are a...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio A group of Buddhist monks is walking through the Charlotte area this week as part of a 2,300-mile peace walk from Texas to Washington, D.C. The monks began their journey in October and arrived Tuesday night at Catawba Baptist Church in Rock Hill, where thousands of people...

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...

Chris Burritt/Business North Carolina Stokes County commissioners approved a request for the rezoning of nearly 1,850 acres along the Dan River at the Virginia border for a data center, despite residents’ concerns about noise and other threats to the environment and quality of life. The 3-2 vote Monday rebuffed an...

Carly Haynes/WRAL News Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman has consulted with the state auditor’s office and the State Bureau of Investigation in examining the town of Cary’s financial mismanagement. On Monday, North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek said a preliminary look into the town’s finances showed there was potential...

Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline An investigation by the North Carolina State Board of Elections found that two contributions by lobbyists to Rep. Sarah Stevens’ state Supreme Court campaign were illegal, but said they did not represent an “intentional violation.” The board issued warning letters to the Stevens campaign as well as...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Elon University said Tuesday that it has applied to the American Bar Association for approval to launch a full-time, 2.5-year law school in Charlotte, in addition to its existing four-year, part-time program in Charlotte and another full-time law program in Greensboro. The new law program will be...

Tulsi Asokan/The Daily Tar Heel Recipients of the North Carolina Scholarship for Children of Wartime Veterans were notified in November that their spring 2026 awards would be reduced or “prorated” by 25 percent, and the notice attributed the reduction to limited funding amid delays in passing a state budget. The...

Paul Woolverton/CityView More than five years ago, a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Adrian Roberts while trying to take him into custody for mental health care. The shooting led to a wrongful death lawsuit from Roberts’ wife that is still being litigated. The deputy, Justin Evans, last week...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The Republican-led North Carolina State Board of Elections voted 3-2 along party lines to allow the closure of a Democrat-leaning early voting site at Western Carolina University, against overwhelming opposition from the people the closure would affect. “It’s a war on students,” board member Siobhan O’Duffy...

Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro Particularly following cuts to SNAP amid President Donald Trump’s administration changing federal funding norms, nonprofit organizations battling food insecurity in Chatham and Orange counties are struggling to sustain the increasing number of families who depend on them. In a conversation from last month’s Forum On The Hill...

Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/Education NC A new Department of Public Instruction (DPI) report says that 100% of traditional public school districts currently have a 1-to-1 digital device-to-student ratio, though many districts are struggling to replace old or damaged devices due to a lack of funding. Dr. Ashley McBride, a digital learning initiative...

Jill Doss-Raines/The High Point Enterprise Speaking as a parent and grandparent — not as a school board member — Mur DeJonge urged the Davidson County Board of Education to take stronger action on what he called “age-inappropriate, sexually explicit content” in school libraries. He said he followed the district’s formal...