Gov. Josh Stein honors the North Carolina National Guard on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on Sept. 11, 2026. (Photo: Christine Zhu)
By Christine Zhu
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein joined members of the military and first responders for a memorial ceremony on Friday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
North Carolina National Guard leaders welcomed U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross, several members of the North Carolina General Assembly, the Raleigh Fire Department, and the North Carolina State Highway Patrol to honor the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives that day.
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Reid Wilson, Attorney General Jeff Jackson (center), and Cumberland County Board of Commissioners Chairman Kirk deViere discuss the nearly $600M settlement with DuPont/Chemours during a September 10, 2026 news conference.(Photo: Christine Zhu/NC Newsline)
By Christine Zhu
The state of North Carolina has reached a $590 million settlement with three chemical manufacturing companies to resolve lawsuits over dumping forever chemicals into rivers.
The deal, announced Thursday, is the largest total environmental damages recovery in state history, according to Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office. It comes just days before Jackson and his staff were scheduled to argue in the state Supreme Court against chemical manufacturers Chemours, DuPont, and Corteva.
The rapid growth in ‘digital instant games’ and lower sales of traditional lottery games were the primary causes of the decrease in the percentage of lottery proceeds transferred to the North Carolina Education Fund. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Clayton Henkel
North Carolina’s lottery is selling more tickets than ever – but it’s putting less of the money it makes into schools, says Auditor Dave Boliek.
A new audit found that gross ticket sales for the state’s Education Lottery rose from $4.3 billion in FY 2023 to $6.6 billion in FY 2025. But the percentage of that money that went to public education fell each year from 23% in 2023, 20% in 2024, and just 16% in 2025.
A classroom at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in South Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps/Utah News Dispatch)
By Ahmed Jallow
At Washington County High School, Principal Torrey Hines learned that some students were spending part of the school day at a barbershop instead of attending an intervention period, a designated time for additional academic support.
So Hines went to the barbershop one morning to find out why. A student told him they skipped because intervention was scheduled first thing in the morning. Hines said the school responded by moving that intervention block to “smack dab in the middle of the day.”
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