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education
Wake County Public School System released its 2025-26 accountability results on September 2, reporting its largest one-year proficiency gain in more than a decade outside pandemic-disrupted testing years. The district’s overall proficiency rate rose above its 2018-19 pre-pandemic baseline and reached its highest level since 2012. The results were released alongside statewide North Carolina accountability data showing broader improvement in testing and graduation outcomes.
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infrastructure
Remnants of Hurricane Helene damaged Interstate 40 in North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge in 2024, washing portions of the eastbound lanes into the Pigeon River. NCDOT converted nine miles of surviving westbound roadway to two-way, reduced-speed traffic in March 2025 while reconstruction proceeds. The corridor is a principal North Carolina–Tennessee mountain route and carries roughly 20,000 to 26,000 vehicles daily even under its current traffic configuration.
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education
Meredith College is a private women’s college in Raleigh, North Carolina, with coeducational graduate programs. Ahead of the fall 2026 term, the college reported 27 faculty departures since the prior school year, including participants in a one-time early-retirement incentive. The college said it had hired seven new faculty members and was working to offer fall courses without disrupting students’ paths to graduation.
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public safety
Heather Morrow and William Donovan Stanley were prosecuted over a Nov. 16 protest outside a south Charlotte building housing Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices. Their joint federal trial was the last criminal case tied to the Trump administration’s November immigration-enforcement operation known as “Operation Charlotte’s Web.” Earlier reporting said Morrow’s original felony case and charges against other people arrested during the operation had been dropped.
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community
A glacier collapse and debris flow triggered catastrophic flash flooding along the Nepal-China border on Aug. 26, devastating settlements and the Gyirong border-crossing area. The disaster left hundreds dead and large numbers of people unaccounted for, including foreign trekkers and pilgrims. In the Triangle, the Nepali community gathered at BAPS Hindu Temple in Morrisville for a vigil and relief support.
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food
Legacy Rolls is a Spring Lake-based fast-casual restaurant founded in 2024 by father-and-son partners Jerry and Justin Canada. The business centers on a family bread-roll recipe that Justin Canada said has been passed down for about 150 years and was traditionally made around the holidays. Its planned Apex site would be the brand’s second location.
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food
Foxcroft Food & Wine is a restaurant and wine bar at 4421 Six Forks Road in Raleigh’s North Hills. The company was founded in Charlotte in 2004 by Conrad Hunter and continues to operate locations in Charlotte and Huntersville. Its Raleigh location offered food service alongside wine, cocktails, wine dinners and masterclasses.