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Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools received $215 million through the second and third rounds of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Funds.

North Carolina’s foster care system has reached a tipping point. Social service agencies are struggling to find homes for the children in their care, leaving some to sleep in government offices or even emergency rooms. One big reason for that? A lack of available foster families.

The Greensboro Department of Transportation has released its annual report for 2022-23, touting

North Carolina’s elected insurance commissioner will no longer hold a second role as state fire marshal due to a new provision in the state budget that will take effect in January.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools superintendent convened with Black-led educational advocacy group Action4Equity, and other local organizations on Monday to discuss racial disparities in school discipline.  The press conference was sparked by a report published last week from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

Wake Forest University has received a $5 million dollar gift to strengthen its work on environmental and sustainability issues.  

Medicaid expansion will launch Dec. 1 in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Monday after achieving what might be his biggest policy win after nearly seven years in office.

The City of Greensboro is aiming to expand its violence prevention efforts.

North Carolina will receive over $4 million in federal funding to help strengthen access to maternal health care. The funding initiative is aimed at addressing high infant and maternal mortality rates, as well as ongoing inequity in those rates.

Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia experienced flooding Saturday after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges.