Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press A former state health director, a family physician and a coalition of healthcare organizations are working to bring perinatal care closer to home for expectant and new mothers across the state. With $2.8 million from the Charlotte-based Leon Levine Foundation, the group seeks to bring prenatal...

WRAL News GoCary is suspending its Downtown Loop bus service as it wrangles with a shortage of drivers. The town announced Thursday that the Downtown Loop service would be suspended until further notice starting July 9. “The service change is the result of an ongoing driver shortage and supports GoCary’s...

WSOC News More Flock cameras were vandalized in the Carolinas. Part of a camera in Rutherfordton, west of Charlotte, was damaged. Cameras cost $3,500 to replace, Rutherfordton Police stated in a Facebook post. The cameras are not used for speed enforcement. They are not used to issue citations for minor...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Elkin City Schools is seeking community input in the search for its next superintendent. The Board of Education hired the North Carolina School Boards Association, or NCSBA, to help conduct the superintendent search. To shape that process, the district is gathering feedback from students, parents, staff and other...

Kaitlyn Aguiles/WECT New playgrounds, nonprofit grants and emergency-response upgrades are coming to Pender County with $620,000 approved in the state budget signed by Gov. Josh Stein. $350,000 of the funding is earmarked for playground equipment and site improvements at county-owned parks. The funding covers plans to add playgrounds in the...

Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog Following the sale of Asheville’s Mission Health system to HCA Healthcare in 2019, nurses and doctors left in large numbers, practices closed, regulators sanctioned the hospital multiple times, and the public has clamored for information. But lately, that information has been harder to get. Beginning earlier this...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network North Carolina’s love-hate relationship with hardened structures along the oceanfront is heating up. From the Outer Banks in the north to Ocean Isle Beach in the south, many portions of North Carolina’s 320 miles of oceanfront are dealing with erosion woes that are threatening homes, infrastructure...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily After months of public pushback over the city’s attempt at enacting an historic overlay district, as defined by its Historic Preservation Commission, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill preventing the city from having and creating an HPC and district. However, Southport found a workable...

Morgan Casey/Border Belt Independent  Viv Tolson Wayne rang the large dinner bell on her front porch along Britt Road in St. Pauls. The crowd on her front lawn hushed their conversations and turned toward the 75-year-old, who wore a red T-shirt and white cowboy hat. On that April day, Tolson...

Shaun Gallagher & Monica Casey/WRAL News Raleigh’s mayor and chief of police are both in support of a new curfew for teenagers after a weekend of violence and disorder during Fourth of July celebrations in the Glenwood South and Brier Creek areas. The hours of the proposed curfew would be...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Following what appears to have been a successful ban on camping and fires on the popular Max Patch Bald in northern Haywood County, the U.S. Forest Service has extended the policy another three years. Overuse at Max Patch had been a growing issue beginning around 2010....

Katie Myers/BPR News Just before the July 4 weekend, President Donald Trump issued a presidential pardon to a Hendersonville mechanic who was convicted of violating the Clean Air Act in 2022. The pardon came alongside 10 others, most of whom were Clean Air Act violators around the country. Matthew Sidney...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN A lawsuit from the North Carolina Department of Justice alleging Meta harmed children will go to trial, state officials said. In 2023, North Carolina joined 29 other states in taking legal action against Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, accusing the company of making its platforms addictive...

Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice Hoping to add stronger enforcement measures to a proposed ordinance regulating the sale of enhanced or synthetic Kratom products, the Dare County Commissioners, at their July 7 meeting, postponed action on that ordinance until Aug. 3. The original ordinance would have banned the sale of all...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Randolph County Commissioners approved a slate of new members to serve on the public library board of trustees on Monday despite community pushback. Back in December, commissioners dismissed all of the trustees after they voted to keep a book about a transgender boy in the children’s section....