Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A housing development might be coming to Clyde in the near future, creating an opportunity for the town to regain the tax base it lost as a result of flooding during Tropical Storms Fred and Helene. The developer is a national firm called Forestar, a subsidiary...

Kani’ya Davis/WUNC Radio The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute received a more than $292,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to support farm communities impacted by Helene. The institute’s three partner universities, N.C. State University, East Carolina University and N.C. A&T State University, will use the grant to expand mental health services...

Sarayu Thondapu/The Daily Tar Heel Last month, former UNC men’s basketball captain Marcus Ginyard ’10 was appointed director of special projects, a new role supporting both the University’s Public Affairs and Finance and Operations offices. Ginyard will also work closely with the chancellor and coordinate projects with the Board of...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Following the NC Department of Health and Human Services’ unprecedented takeovers of two county departments of social services this year, the statewide association of DSS directors raised “urgent concerns” over the state’s handling of such cases. Emails and letters obtained by Carolina Public Press revealed that...

Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Following a discussion Thursday at a Board of Commissioners workshop on school safety and the lack of officers to cover all schools, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields recognized that his office could hypothetically take over policing duties for the district. With nearly the entire Board...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog In August, when the University of North Carolina Asheville announced it was pausing a controversial plan to build a stadium-anchored development atop 45 acres of wooded campus, the school said it would appoint a commission to engage the community and evaluate ideas. Its work would continue into...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News & WFAE Radio On Friday, North Carolina will be the only state in the country to no longer have a statewide collaborative focused on improving perinatal care. The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina stands to lose its entire $905,000 budget on Friday, a spokeswoman for...

Benjamin Schachtman/WHQR Today, the North Carolina GOP said it had learned of an alleged cash-for-votes scheme in Wilmington. The county Democratic party denounced both any potential election fraud and the GOP’s reaction. State and local Republicans shared allegations that one voter received text messages offering cash from three Democratic candidates...

Taylor Knopf/NC Health News At a time when the nation’s drug supply has become increasingly unpredictable, Nabarun Dasgupta uses what he calls “science in service” to bring some clarity to the chaos. Dasgupta has spent two decades using data to tell the story behind street drugs and their hidden dangers....

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A rockslide on the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville last Wednesday night, Oct. 29, left some drivers shaken but uninjured. The first vehicle to encounter the slide didn’t see it in time to stop. The driver was coming through Frying Pan Tunnel and ran into...

John Marshall/The Associated Press Kyle Busch bought what he thought was a safe life insurance plan that would provide self-funding income for his retirement. When Pacific Life Insurance Company sent a sixth premium notice on what was supposed to be a five-year payment plan — and most of the money...

Michael Koh/WCHL Chapelboro The Orange Water and Sewer Authority announced Thursday it has received $1.96 million for PFAS treatment as part of a settlement with the company 3M, a major manufacturer of PFAS. According to OWASA, the funds will be used to offset the cost of treatment to reduce PFAS...

Joy Crist/Coastal Review Online Debris from five oceanfront home collapses continues to cover the shoreline in Buxton as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) moves forward with a coordinated cleanup response, despite the ongoing federal shutdown. The public is advised to avoid the beach south of Old Lighthouse Road, where...

Doug Bock Clark/ProPublica In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office. The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the...

Paul Specht & Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News North Carolina legislators are summoning Chapel Hill school officials to Raleigh to explain their objections to a set of laws that ban discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools from kindergarten to fourth grade, among other things. The law, which sponsors...