Bob Liepa/Wilmington StarNews The perception of crime, homelessness, aggressive panhandling and the cost of parking is taking a bite out of small businesses in downtown Wilmington. So says Tom Harris, one of the owners of Front Street Brewery at 9 North Front St. Now he hopes a meeting with the...

WRAL News State elections officials agreed Wednesday to delay a legal hearing on the eligibility of a Republican running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, who is alleged to live out of state. Elections officials have been investigating whether Margot Dupre is actually a Florida resident following a complaint by...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A popular coastal town is once again looking to restructure rates in its parking program, which could come with an increase for hourly parkers on the weekend, but a decrease for weekday visitors. Wrightsville Beach held its budget meeting between town staff and the board of...

Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio A measles outbreak centered in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has become the largest in the nation in more than two decades, according to state health officials. The state on Tuesday reported nearly 790 cases tied to the outbreak, which began in October — surpassing an...

Guy Lucas/The High Point Enterprise Bethany Medical and founder Dr. Lenny Peters have agreed to pay more than $8.8 million to resolve allegations of submitting bills to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Tuesday. Peters was accused by state and...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Canton is finally taking a stand on crypto mining, trailing three years behind Waynesville and Haywood County on taking steps to prevent the controversial facilities. Canton is considering a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining, data center operations and server farms. The moratorium would freeze any applications or...

Caroline Yaffa & Will Doran/WRAL News North Carolinians scrambled to find generators ahead of this weekend’s ice and snow. Now questions are resurfacing about whether the state should adopt laws to better protect the power grid. The answers may lie in other states, such as Texas, which also dealt with...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A judge has upheld a ban on commercial boat slip rentals at the Riverwalk Condominiums, while allowing one downtown tour company to continue operating amid a years-long legal dispute. New Hanover County Superior Court Judge George Jones signed an order maintaining a ban on commercial boat...

Zachery Eanes/Axios On the same day that UNC-Chapel Hill announced it would proceed with developing its Carolina North satellite campus, the town of Chapel Hill also passed a sweeping set of reforms meant to make it easier to build new housing in the town. Why it matters: Local leaders hope...

Katherine Zehnder/The Carolina Journal On Jan. 22, US Rep. Greg Murphy, MD,  R-NC3, introduced the “Buying American Cotton Act,” which would create a tax credit to incentivize the purchase of products made with American-grown cotton. “American cotton growers, especially those in Eastern North Carolina, play a critical role in our...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News In Alamance County, Ivey Broadnax works with young people who may be struggling with mental health issues. Instead of focusing on mental health symptoms or deficits, Broadnax and other “youth partners,” through Vaya Health, want to build positive childhood experiences for the young people they are...

Aaron Beard/The Associated Press The legal fight between Duke and Darian Mensah is over. Now the quarterback can transfer elsewhere after bringing the Blue Devils an unexpected Atlantic Coast Conference title. The school and Mensah’s agency released statements Tuesday confirming they had reached settlement without providing any details. It came...

Glenn H. Burkins/Q City Metro The Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg has announced its endorsements for the Democratic primary elections, scheduled for March 3. Notable was the absence of two long-serving incumbents: Mecklenburg Commissioner Vilma Leak and state Rep. Carla Cunningham. Mecklenburg Sheriff Garry McFadden, who has faced accusations of...

Jose Sandoval/WFAE Radio As Western North Carolinians braced for an incoming winter storm last week, professor Doug Miller and his students in the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences weighed a key question: Should they deploy the weather balloon? Forecasts from the National Weather Service last week...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Wow. Just wow. If you thought Guilford County had its hands full overseeing and funding $2 billion in school bond projects, a new Sheriff’s Office headquarters and lots of other ongoing projects – well, at a Thursday, Jan. 15 work session, county staff unveiled plans for...