After a months-long national search, the North Carolina Board of Community Colleges chose Monty Sullivan to oversee the system’s 58 colleges serving 600,000 students.

Six days and 221 laps later at the Formula Sun Grand Prix, Appalachian State University's solar vehicle team, Team Sunergy, is moving on to its next big race. The team now prepares for the American Solar Challenge, a weeklong cross-country race that kicks off July 25th.

A recent sample found an increase in the chemical 1,4-Dioxane in Hasketts Creek. It connects to the Deep River within the Cape Fear River Basin, which provides drinking water to around 900,000 people downstream.

After roughly three decades of research, the newly opened Tobacco Trust Fund Christmas Tree Seed Center of Excellence in Ashe County will clean, process and distribute improved Fraser Fir seeds. According to Center Director Tracy Taylor, it was important to produce trees that grow faster, have the shape growers want, and hold their needles for longer.