Clare Fieseler/Canary Media David Stevenson stood in a circle of friends and colleagues in an Orlando, Florida, hotel lobby. Everyone but him wore a lapel pin that read ​“I ♥ Fossil Fuels.” “You want one?” asked a conference attendee, offering me the pin with a smirk. ​“It can be a...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Next week, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission is scheduled to vote on new regulations for chemicals PFAS and 1,4-dioxane. The proposed “monitoring and minimization” rule would require industrial facilities to sample their wastewater and, if the compounds are detected, submit a plan to the North...

Kelsey Coffey/WRAL News In a climate where child care is already fraught with challenges, a new hurdle emerges as allegations of fraud in Minnesota threaten to put federal funding on hold nationwide. The announcement earlier this week by the Trump administration that it would freeze child care funds to Minnesota...

Felicia Sonmez/Blue Ridge Public Radio Tangie Morgan is the mayor of the small town of Saluda in Polk County. She’s also the owner and manager of the M. A. Pace General Store, which she says is one of the oldest stores in North Carolina. “See, this is my family’s business,”...

Kenneth Lee Jr., James Farrell & Palmer Magri/WFAE Radio A Mint Hill man has been arrested after allegedly planning a deadly New Year’s Eve attack in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Russ Ferguson, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, said 18-year-old Christian...

Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville has received a timely Christmas present of sorts — funds to reimburse $350,000 in repair costs on the Depot Street bridge after FEMA reneged on a promise to do the same. Waynesville officials earlier this month announced that the state has agreed to repay the...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise Truck manufacturer Ox Bodies got city incentives but fell far short of its overall goals for an expansion in High Point that ended when it closed its facility after five years in operation. The city paid $15,000 to the company in 2021 after it documented...

Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom In his effort to seek a second term in the N.C. House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Schietzelt is facing off against a Wake County math teacher who recently switched her voter registration to run in the Republican primary. The race is one of several across the state...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Several species of waterfowl frolicked in the lake at Airlie Gardens as a kingfisher zipped by on a warm November day. Nearby, some turtles sunning themselves on an old stump took no notice of the aerial noisemaker. Even a few roseate spoonbills were hanging around in...

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice On Dec. 31, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education in U. S. District Court for terminating nearly $50 million in federal education funding for North Carolina public schools, most of it for rural and low-income communities. One...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Free parking in downtown Greensboro has been shrinking for years, but the latest move by the City of Greensboro makes it worse – much more of what used to be easy, free parking is about to cost you money. The city, playing the Grinch, announced just...

Shauneen Miranda/NC Newsline President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled Monday hundreds of millions of dollars each state will receive this fiscal year as part of a massive $50 billion rural health fund baked into Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law. The five-year Rural Health Transformation Program — authorized under GOP lawmakers’ mega tax...

Felicia Sonmez/Blue Ridge Public Radio & WFAE Radio North Carolina and 11 other states have won a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency over millions of dollars in grants they said the Trump administration was withholding. The funding — through the Emergency Management Performance Grant and the Homeland Security...

Carly Haynes/WRAL News A Facebook comment in an online networking group is causing a stir among some of Raleigh’s small business owners. On Dec. 20, an anonymous commenter in a local networking group on Facebook responded to a post by a parent asking for advice regarding her transgender son. “There’s...

Amy Zhang /The Duke Chronicle Following his inauguration in January, U.S. President Donald Trump brought along a new team of advisers and a playbook for higher education. The administration unleashed a slew of demands on colleges and universities in what has been seen by higher education leaders as an “overreach”...