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8 highly anticipated NC restaurants opening in 2026
New year, new restaurants! From barbecue joints to sushi spots, discover the most exciting North Carolina restaurant openings of 2026.
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Army Corps of Engineers wants to dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists tally the costs.
By the time the Army Corps of Engineers is finished, 35 million cubic yards of silt and sand, plus the creatures that live in it, would be scraped and slurped from the Cape Fear River.
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NC commission advances PFAS testing rule for public review
Proposed rules that would require hundreds of industrial manufacturers and public sewer plants across the state to test the wastewater they discharge into rivers, creeks and streams for three types of PFAS and 1,4-dioxane will go out for public comment next month.
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Even in defeat, the Carolina Panthers left fans with hope
Here’s how, even in defeat, the Carolina Panthers became the “Cathartic Cats” this season.
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3 things happening in NC this week: Jason Isbell plays Durham, Charlotte
When everything looks bleak, look to the creatives. This week, catch a classical music performance in Greenville, one of two shows by alt-country star Jason Isbell, or view the lights at Biltmore.
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NC fights back after Trump team cuts $50M in rural education funding
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson says the decision to end the funding mid-stream violates federal law and threatens critical rural education services for more than 23,000 students statewide.
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Good New Friday: NC tops the country in workforce development, report says
State leaders tout new magazine ranking of states with the best workforce development, a Charlotte museum announces major AI grant funding, and a Rougemont man strikes it big on the Powerball.
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Kennedy’s new vaccine policy exposes kids to nasty and preventable diseases, NC doctors say
US health officials under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reduced the number of recommended vaccines for children, including shots for diseases that can be fatal and lead to amputations.
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Working-class Americans don’t have room for one more thing. They’re leading anyway
I remember one mom, the mother of a messy little 3-year-old whose braids were always pinned up with a rainbow of butterfly clips, saying to me: “I just don’t have room for even one more thing.”
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ICE and Border Patrol were bound to kill someone. Charlotte showed us that
ICE and Border Patrol agents’ killing of a Minneapolis woman was foreshadowed by their violent tactics in North Carolina, Louisiana, Portland, and Illinois.
