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...

Adam Wagner/WUNC News With flu deaths spiking in North Carolina, state health officials are urging people to get their annual flu vaccines. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reported Wednesday that 63 additional people died from the flu in the state, bringing this season’s total to 134 deaths....

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio A Superior Court judge on Thursday dismissed a petition seeking to remove Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden from office, but ruled that the effort could move forward later — if it’s approved by the district attorney. Five Mecklenburg County residents filed the petition earlier this month, alleging...

Albert Samaha/The Washington Post Sports bettors worked with dozens of players across NCAA men’s basketball to rig the outcome of at least 29 games, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment unsealed Thursday, the latest development in a widening scandal stretching across collegiate and professional basketball. Among the defendants named by...

Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline A state House committee on involuntary commitment of people with mental illnesses began after Iryna Zarutska was killed last year by a man with a long criminal history and a schizophrenia diagnosis. Now, another death has brought new immediacy to the committee’s work. At the request of...

Annie Dance/The Carolina Journal State officials overseeing western North Carolina’s disaster recovery efforts acknowledged ongoing funding gaps, federal reimbursement delays, and housing challenges during a Jan. 9 meeting of the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (GROW NC) at Isothermal Community College in Spindale. Each month, the advisory committee...