Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The 18.8 million visitors to North Carolina’s nine National Park Service sites in 2024 injected $2.3 billion into the state’s economy, second only to California’s $3.7 billion, finds a recent report. Of that $2.3 billion statewide, around 4.7 million visitors spent $732.2 million in the communities...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio Greensboro’s two remaining mayoral candidates found common ground at a forum on Wednesday. But questions about government oversight revealed some key differences. Democratic City Council Member and current Mayor Pro Tem Marikay Abuzuaiter and former mayor, Republican Robbie Perkins, appeared to agree on several issues, including keeping...

Bob Liepa/Wilmington StarNews AJ Trelease loves his 97-year-old grandmother. That comes across when he talks about her. But he also worries about her. He said she takes over 20 medications every day. “The number one thing that worried me is is she taking it at the right time?” Trelease, founder...

The Athletic Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were arrested Thursday as part of a federal investigation into illegal betting activities, federal law enforcement officials said during a news conference in New York. Rozier, 31, was taken into custody in Orlando, where the Heat...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Federal regulators have officially placed Asheville’s Mission Hospital in Immediate Jeopardy for the second straight year. The hospital now has 18 days to make things right, or else lose its Medicaid certification and the critical funding that comes along with it. Preventable patient death, unsafe...

Mary Helen Moore/Axios Raleigh North Carolina’s previous congressional map left Greensboro without a hometown representative in Congress, and that won’t change under the new map passed Wednesday. Why it matters: For now, there are four Democrats in North Carolina’s 14-seat congressional delegation, despite its status as a fast-growing swing state....

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Hundreds of Union County Public Schools teachers on Wednesday called in sick and marched to protest what they consider an insufficient increase to Union County’s teacher salary supplement. The school board is set to vote on approving a $1,000 increase to the local salary supplement on Nov....

Justin Theal & Page Forrest/Pew After years of growth, states’ rainy day fund capacity—the number of days they could cover state operations—fell in fiscal year 2025, the first decline since the Great Recession of 2007-09. At the end of fiscal 2025, the median state could run on just its rainy...

Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News When an overdose is reported in coastal Carteret County, 911 dispatchers send emergency responders racing to the scene carrying naloxone — the opioid reversal medication that can bring someone back from the brink of death. At the same time, the county’s six-member post-overdose response team —...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Community Justice Center, a grant-funded operation bringing nonprofits and the justice system under the same roof to promote efficient collaboration and access, has now been open for more than a year. The vision of a one-stop shop has yet to be fully realized, and when...

Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Two-thirds of all trash buried in Haywood County’s landfill in White Oak between July 2024 and June 2025 came from outside the county — due to an agreement to sell landfill space for trash hauled in from surrounding states. Meanwhile, the landfill is expected to fill...

Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online   The 18.8 million visitors to North Carolina’s nine National Park Service sites in 2024 injected $2.3 billion into the state’s economy, second only to California’s $3.7 billion, finds a recent report. Of that $2.3 billion statewide, around 4.7 million visitors spent $732.2 million in the...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network They’re rolling in from South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, attracted by the promise of a temperate and warming climate, vast tracts of diggable land, room to expand, and a nearly endless supply of fire ants − a delicacy for these banded travelers. But these new residents...

Dan Kane/The Charlotte Observer At a Mooresville town board meeting three years ago, a developer pitched a large planned community — a combination of 560 single-family homes and apartments across 125 acres two miles southwest of downtown. To gain the board’s support, the developers promised a $15 million road through...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press A legal migrant farm worker was fatally injured while working at a major sweet potato farm in Nash County, marking the second such death at the same farm in just over two years. Daniel de la Cruz, a 36-year-old from Mexico, was at work at...