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”...

Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times A defense attorney representing one of the two men charged with attempted murder in the Christmas Eve shots-fired incident at Walmart told the judge Monday morning that his client shot at the floor in an effort to prevent a mass shooting. Christmas shoppers were crowded...

Aarik Long/The Waynesville Mountaineer As construction continues its march up Russ Avenue in Waynesville, more than a dozen commercial property owners are still objecting to the right-of-way buyout of their property by the N.C. Department of Transportation. That’s nearly one-fourth of the total 56 parcels that had at least some...

Port City Daily Several small, infill developments have recently been submitted to the City of Wilmington, totalling 27 units to be built from downtown to the Wrightsville Beach area. All three developments are in the pre-Technical Review Committee stage; only one will need rezoning approval from city council before moving...

Dasia Williams/CityView Construction is underway on a $12 million water project designed to deliver drinking water to Gray’s Creek Elementary School and Alderman Road Elementary School—an investment in school safety as Cumberland County Schools continues evaluating long-term facility needs across the district. Both schools are currently outside the public water...

Eliot Duke/State Port Pilot Oak Island and its beach renourishment partners recently offered local media a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing mobilization of more than one million cubic yards of sand along the shoreline. On Dec. 17, representatives from Moffatt & Nichol, the engineering firm that designed and is overseeing...