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The Fort Mill School District is asking South Carolina state leaders to intervene and shut down operations at the controversial Silfab Solar manufacturing facility.

The mountain town of about 130 people in Ashe County will play host once again to the Appalachian and folk music Fly Around Festival. Proceeds raised will go toward continued restoration efforts due to the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

A group that North Carolina lawmakers created to boost education in the state has begun drafting recommendations for policy change. Members are focused on early literacy, the teacher pipeline and the school performance grades model.

The N.C. Department of Transportation is offering a sweeping community benefits package that could total as much as $300 million as it seeks support for the proposed Interstate 77 toll lanes project, which would run from south of uptown Charlotte to the South Carolina border.

A Florida man is trying to run a 50K every day for 50 consecutive days in all 50 states, and on Monday, he ran in Charlotte.

Amid flurry of data center moratoriums, North Carolina is pushing for stricter rules for tech companies.

For more than thirty years, the federal government estimates that nearly one million military service personnel, their families, and civilian employees drank, cooked with, and bathed in water severely poisoned by industrial solvents at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Brian Amburgey formed the grassroots advocacy group Lejeune Veterans for Justice and is organizing a mass rally at the Lejeune Memorial Gardens in Jacksonville on August 19th.

A coalition of the state's leading law enforcement and prosecutor groups wrote to N.C. House lawmakers Monday asking them to take action next week on proposed hemp regulations that could ban many of the products currently sold in North Carolina.

The opening gala will honor 28 different creatives, including Tony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad.

The names of nine transformative artists, arts educators and supporters were etched in bronze and embedded in Winston-Salem's Walk of Fame. Among them was public radio figure and Wake Forest University professor emeritus Julian Burroughs, who set WFDD on its path more than 50 years ago.