Jamiese Price & Bianca Holman/WTVD News Disruptions at Raleigh-Durham International Airport are expected to worsen in the coming days. A source told ABC11 that nearly half a dozen TSA workers at RDU have submitted their notices to leave, and the number is expected to grow in the days ahead. As...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Middle and high school basketball players from North and South Carolina gathered recently at the historic Second Ward High School Gymnasium in uptown Charlotte for a showcase that blended competition with education — and highlighted the growing role of money in all levels of youth sport. The...

Matt Lamb/The Southern Pines Pilot When the N.C. Department of Transportation said its latest design for the historic Pinehurst Traffic Circle was its final offering, the organization meant it, according to a recent response it sent to Pinehurst officials. Last month, the Village Council submitted a resolution to DOT lauding...

Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press How do you put a price on a 122-year-old mass of concrete sitting in the middle of a river? The value of Craggy Dam on the French Broad River in Buncombe County is now at the center of a debate over river restoration, flood mitigation, power...

Paul Woolverton/CityView As Cumberland County employees work to convert a former parking lot in front of the county courthouse into a temporary greenspace, the county commissioners are looking for ways to replace the 204 parking spaces that used to be there. At the same time, commissioners are still seeking to...

WSOCTV News Golf lovers in Mecklenburg County won’t be yelling fore over a county commission vote Tuesday night. Commissioners are set to vote on $1.6 million worth of improvements to county golf courses. They will be at Charles T. Myers, Charles Sifford, Harry Jones, Sunset Hills, and Tradition Golf Courses....

Emiilie Megnien & Rio Yamat/The Associated Press Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Monday as powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and a partial government shutdown affecting airport security screeners dragged into a second month. The disruptions come at an already challenging...

Greg Childress/NC Newsline Community groups and Walnut Grove residents in Stokes County are suing the county to block a large hyperscale data center complex, known as Project Delta, that they say will harm environmentally sensitive areas along the Dan River corridor, damage sacred cultural sites and threaten the region’s rural...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh Wiley Nickel, Wake County’s district attorney in waiting, says he wants to use the next 10 months before he assumes the role of DA to secure more resources for the office. The top priority, he told Axios, is to significantly increase the number of prosecutors working in...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online It’s been nearly a month since a video first aired of Wilmington’s mayor invoking residents to voice their opposition to one town’s plans to pull millions of gallons of water daily from the Cape Fear River. “Today this vital resource is under threat from growing water-hungry...

Ashley Fredde/NC Health News In North Carolina, where a clinician practices can make all the difference for someone seeking maternity care — it’s the birth equivalent of “location, location, location.” Dozens of counties have no local obstetrics care, so families are forced to travel long distances for deliveries. That distance...

Katie Myers/The Waynesville Mountaineer A recently-leaked database indicates at least 10 signs in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and 15 along the Blue Ridge Parkway have been flagged for possible removal under a new Trump administration policy. Hundreds of signs and educational displays across the National Park System are...

Annette Weston/WUNC News While the Department of Justice Civil Division announced last week that hundreds of settlements have recently been approved for victims of the toxic water aboard Camp Lejeune, and the associate attorney representing the federal government said he’s proud of the work done to speed up the compensation...

Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise A recount will be held in the Democratic primary contest for a Guilford County Board of Commissioners seat with the two candidates separated by 34 votes out of 7,298 ballots cast. Lisa McMillan leads Walter Johnson III in the race for District 7. McMillan...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Shooting ranges, a land-use that for years has bedeviled Henderson County commissioners, Zoning Board of Adjustment members and homeowners near where they’re proposed, could get harder to site in the county. At the behest of Chairman Bill Lapsley, the Board of Commissioners is expected on Monday to...