Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online As neighborhood businesses go, Timbermill Wind is quiet, clean and visually striking. And barely a year from the start of its wind energy production in this rural northeastern North Carolina community, it is already pumping money into local coffers. At a ceremony held Tuesday at the...

Frank Daniels IV/The (Southern Pines) Pilot A prominent commercial property in Aberdeen is back on the market after a failed attempt to repurpose it as an indoor food court, known as Junction Food Hall. Located at 124 W Main St. on the corner of North Poplar and Main streets in...

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A housing development surge in Waynesville five years ago cooled abruptly when the state halted new hookups to the leaky old sewer plant — no more new developments until the sewer plant rebuild. That is now here, and the development gates will soon open again with...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio MountainTrue and the Center for Biological Diversity are suing the U.S. Forest Service because of unannounced logging near the Nolichucky River. The U.S. Forest Service has been harvesting and selling timber from 135 acres of the Pisgah National Forest near the Nolichucky River as part...

WRAL News UNC Health will have a new CEO, the UNC System announced Thursday. Dr. Cristy Page will officially begin the roles as UNC Health’s CEO, the dean of the UNC School of Medicine and as vice chancellor for medical affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday, Nov. 24. She was...

Danielle Battaglia/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Sen. Thom Tillis called for oversight of the use of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte during a Senate hearing Thursday. Border Patrol agents began appearing throughout Charlotte Saturday near places like grocery stores, schools and churches, rounding up Hispanic residents, often forcefully, and...

Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline A North Carolina administrative law judge has temporarily frozen Medicaid rate cuts for personal care services delivered in adult care homes. The ruling came after the North Carolina Assisted Living Association and dozens of companies challenged the 8% cut to Medicaid rates for personal care services in...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Before the cameras roll, before the microphones click on, and before the public meetings begin, the Fayetteville City Council gathers in a cramped room on the third floor of City Hall. These sessions are the council’s little-known dinner meetings. For nearly two decades, the gatherings have quietly...

Gerrit De Vynck & Nitasha Tiku/The Washington Post The Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating artificial intelligence, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post and confirmed by a person familiar with the White House...

Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom The agency tasked with overseeing the rebuilding of homes damaged and destroyed in Hurricanes Florence and Matthew failed to control its budget, resulting in an emergency appropriation from the General Assembly, and was slow to process applications, according to a new report from State Auditor Dave Boliek....

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...

Amy McCraw/Hendersonville Lightning After hearing from state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom in a late-night email, county commissioners on Wednesday morning directed staff to begin working with contractors on a scaled-down version of the Clear Creek sewer project that might serve as the first phase of a planned sewer line in Edneyville....

Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger When a Charlotte man fell off a ladder last week and likely fractured his foot, his doctor told him he needed to go to the hospital for an X-ray. But the man, the Latino owner of a small construction company, refused to...

David Ford/WFDD Radio The 62nd annual Piedmont Craftsmen’s Fair gets underway this weekend with more than 100 artists participating. The artisans come from across the U.S. to showcase their work in clay, wood, glass, fiber, and more. About 30 of them hail from the mountains. Some had to cancel last...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state’s largest city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. The operation that began over the weekend is the latest phase of Republican President Donald...