Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio The owners of the music venue The Salvage Station are about to engage in the ultimate upcycling. They’re transforming an old paper recycling site into a new indoor music venue. This week, owners Danny McClinton and Katie Hild, announced an agreement with Asheville Waste Paper...

Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot With the Moore County Board of Education set on retaining its own police department, the board’s Safety Committee met Monday to continue parsing through ways to fill officer shortfalls. The discussion ran the gamut, exploring a variety of strategies to bolster recruitment and reinforce current...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro An international business is close to relocating its North American operations to Orange County, the North Carolina governor announced on Wednesday. A release from Gov. Josh Stein’s office shared the French manufacturing company CITEL is planning on relocating its U.S. business to Hillsborough and will invest $12.5...

Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times It looks like 2025 was a better year for Wilson County farmers with an estimated income of $154,934,027 from farm gate sales of farm products. Norman Harrell, executive director of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension office in Wilson County, reported the figures at the annual...

Ashley Anderson/CBS 17 News The legislative assistant to Republican Senator Norman Sanderson, Diane Cook, has been arrested and booked into the Wake County Detention Center. Cook is accused of “willfully” and “maliciously” burning a house in the 8300 block of Boca Point in Raleigh, according to her arrest warrant. At...

Amy McCraw & Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Henderson County commissioners devoted yet another long discussion to the Clear Creek sewer project last week, hours after state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom blasted them for making “incorrect statements” about the Legislature’s move to shift a grant from that project to the county-owned Etowah sewer...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily This year may have been lackluster for film in Wilmington and across the state, but leaders are hoping 2026 will come with changes to North Carolina’s film incentive, including more benefits to smaller, independent productions. The hurdle? Getting the North Carolina General Assembly to, one, include...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The North Carolina Department of Transportation plans to spend $3.2 billion expanding Interstate 77 from uptown to the South Carolina line with two express toll lanes in each direction. But new renderings of the highway through uptown have alarmed residents, who worry the wider highway will decimate...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Since its opening in September 2020, 850 children have been born at UNC Health Chatham’s Maternity Care Center. The center’s staff is made up mostly of family physicians instead of OB-GYNs. The care model aims to address the lack of maternal and infant care in rural...

Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer There was no wrapped box with a bow, or even a card. But all the same, Waynesville has received an early Christmas present from N.C. Congressman Chuck Edwards. Town leaders were told at Tuesday’s town council meeting that Edwards, R-Hendersonville, has secured $3 million in federal...

Amy Zhang/The (Duke) Chronicle In late August, faculty members in the Sanford School of Public Policy received an email directing them to avoid speaking to the media about any issues not related to their research. The email, obtained by The Chronicle, indicated that Frank Tramble, vice president for communications, marketing...

Coastal Review Online The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust has transferred the Pasquotank River Preserve in Camden County to the state for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to manage. The 303.5-acre property lies along 1.7 miles of the Pasquotank River, a blackwater system within the Pasquotank River basin, and...

David Beasley/The Center Square A program offering retirement incentives to tenured professors in colleges and universities in North Carolina with declining enrollment proved successful, according to a new report. The idea for the program started about three years ago as some schools in the state university system, including UNC Greensboro...

Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat The Watauga County Commissioners unanimously adopted a new ordinance regulating solicitation in unincorporated areas of the county, following safety concerns raised by the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office. Under the ordinance, it is illegal to beg, panhandle or solicit within 20 feet of an outdoor ATM; while...

Theresa Opeka/The Carolina Journal Trey Rabon, president of AT&T North Carolina, knew that Hurricane Helene was going to be bad, with the company positioning crews ahead of time in western North Carolina. But he and the company had no idea of the level of destruction the storm would leave behind...