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.

Legislators have allocated $3.2 million to the Alamance-Burlington School System for an AI School Safety Pilot Program. It will likely be a couple of months before the district decides whether or not to move forward with it.

University chancellors have spent the past year pleading for state legislators to provide funding for their enrollment growth. One campus won't receive any at all.

Brown Investment Properties and Simpson Commercial Real Estate plan to build the center by Southeast Guilford High School along future Interstate 685.

A developer looking to build a controversial hyperscale data center in Stokes County has resubmitted a rezoning application for the project.

Alamance County Commissioners have agreed to allocate an additional $7.3 million to the local public school system for capital projects. The move comes after the district initiated a budget dispute last month.

The North Carolina Health Care Affordability Commission held its first meeting this week to make healthcare more affordable for North Carolinians without sacrificing quality. The state currently ranks 50th in the nation for costs and 42nd for outcomes.

Officials say that 12-16 pups have survived their first few months.

Starting in August, Greensboro will block vehicles on parts of South Elm Street to make way for a pedestrian plaza. February One Place to Washington Street will be closed to traffic for about three months.

Retired Sergeant Robert Grier integrated the Winston-Salem Fire Department more than a decade before racial segregation was outlawed in the United States. He died this past weekend at the age of 104.