Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times On Thursday, Nov. 20, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners held a lengthy work session in the Carolyn Coleman conference room in the Old Guilford County Court House, where they were brought up to speed on one of the most critical long-term infrastructure challenges facing Guilford...

Duke Pratt School of Engineering An environmental chemistry laboratory at Duke University has solved a longstanding mystery of the origin of high levels of PFAS—so-called “forever chemicals”—contaminating water sources in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. By sampling and analyzing sewage in and around Burlington, NC, the researchers traced the...

Kyle Ingram/The (Raleigh) News & Observer In a letter sent to The News & Observer, former North Carolina Rep. Cecil Brockman defended himself against charges of sex crimes with a minor and accused the alleged victim of lying to him about his age. “Why should I pay the ultimate price...

Sergio Osnaya-Prieto & Analisa Sorrells Archer/Education NC Golden LEAF Foundation President Scott T. Hamilton announced on Friday a $1 million investment to support AdvanceNC, a workforce initiative focused on advanced manufacturing. The announcement came during the State Board of Community Colleges’ November meeting, which also featured updates on the North...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press If you are having a turkey this Thanksgiving, do you know where it was processed? If it came from certain North Carolina processing plants, it may have been processed on dirty equipment, records obtained by Carolina Public Press show. Federal inspectors found black residue on...

Paul Garber/WFAE Radio North Carolina is a major producer of Thanksgiving essentials like turkeys and sweet potatoes, and it should be a good year for consumers this holiday season when it comes to these agricultural products. Jeffrey Dorfman is the Hugh C. Kiger Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics...

Tom Murphy/North State Journal Novo Nordisk is chopping prices again for Wegovy, but doctors say the expense will remain challenging for patients without insurance. The drugmaker said Monday that it has started selling higher doses of the injectable obesity treatment for $349 a month to patients paying the full bill....

Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat The Boone Town Council held an informal listening session on a proposed redevelopment of Boone Golf Club that would add housing and a public golf entertainment complex while keeping golf on the site, drawing sharp questions from council members and strong opposition from speakers during public...

Sarah Nagem/CityView A grandmother frantically banged on Joni’s apartment door in Robeson County earlier this year with a desperate plea: “Are you the girl with the Narcan?” Without hesitation, Joni grabbed two boxes of the medication from her kitchen and ran outside, where the woman’s granddaughter was sitting in a...

Bernard J. Wolfson/KFF Health News Medical educators and health professionals warn that new federal student loan caps in President Donald Trump’s tax cut law could make it more expensive for many people to become doctors and could exacerbate physician shortages nationwide. And, they warn, the economic burden will steer many...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz An analysis presented to local transportation leaders this week examined two different tolling approaches that could help fund the more than $1 billion replacement of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. The comparative analysis, which is required for projects costing over $750 million to receive federal funding, looked at...

Sophia Luna/Education NC  As North Carolina school districts face the deadline to adopt policies that will limit students’ cellphone use by January, the governor’s Advisory Council for Student Safety and Well-Being met on Nov. 17. The council heard from two school districts about the successes of the cellphone policies they...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press North Carolina lawmakers did not intentionally discriminate against minority voters in the 2023 drawing of the state’s congressional map, a federal district court ruled Thursday evening. However, the judges’ decision does not apply to an ongoing challenge to 2025 redistricting. A group of voters and several...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Last year, the number of jobs in North Carolina’s economy grew by about 1%. But growth in clean energy employment outpaced other sectors, according to a new report. The advocacy group E2 found that clean energy jobs grew by about 3% in 2024. That includes jobs that...

Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog Owning the land beneath their mobile home has given Laura Garcia and her husband the security to replace its ceilings, rebuild its exterior, add on a front porch and apply a fresh coat of light gray paint highlighted with wine-colored trim. “Rather than depend on a landlord...