tr?id=&ev=PageView&noscript=

North Carolina News You Can Use

COMMUNITY
Good News Friday: Charlotte "Roofman" robber gets big-screen adaptation

Good News Friday: The story of infamous Charlotte ‘Roofman’ robber comes to the big screen

| |
Our weekly roundup of good news from around North Carolina includes a Hollywood moment for Charlotte, and some pivotal medical research kicking off in Wake County.
Western North Carolina After Helene

On North Carolina’s rivers and streams, the cleanup of Helene’s fury seems never-ending

| |
How first Helene and then the cleanup battered the ecosystem in western North Carolina. 
COMMUNITY - Cardinal & Pine

One year after Helene, NC program teaches students resilience

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
As the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene's devastating landfall approaches, a program in western North Carolina schools is helping students cope with the tragedy.
Benson's Mule Days festival, captured here in 2022, is a multi-day celebration of this eastern NC town's agricultural tradition, features rodeos, parades, food, and more. (Photo by Madeline P. Gray for Cardinal & Pine)

Mules, Mayberry, and woolly worms: 8 fall festivals you won’t want to miss in North Carolina

| |
The 2025 calendar of fall festivals in North Carolina is full. Here are eight of our favorites, from the coast to the mountains of NC.
The North Carolina Department of Labor found conditions on the farm were harmful to workers, such as the lack of proper breaks from the heat. The Barnes Farming Corporation was initially fined more than $187,000 in 2024. However, the fine was reduced in a settlement this year to $3,750.

Reduced fine for NC farmworker’s death raises accountability questions

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
During National Farm Safety and Health Week, a massively reduced fine for poor conditions that led to a farmworker's death is leading to questions about worker protections in North Carolina.