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Football season is here. So, with North Carolina opening its season Thursday at Minnesota, it’s time to dive into the 2024 Tar Heels with our staff predictions. Below are in detail how many of our staffers at THI believe the season will play out:

With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I’m Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network. Last week we talked about Florida-specific funds that were being doled out in response to Hurricane Debby. This week we add in numbers from the USDA. Specifically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has now...

Closure has finally come in a decades-old Uptown Charlotte fatal hit-and-run case, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police announced on Friday.

UNC Health is celebrating its newest addition, a surgical hospital in Chapel Hill.The first surgeries in the building took place Monday. The first inpatients are scheduled to be received Tuesday.The seven-story building includes 26 operating rooms, 59 pre- and post-op rooms, 80 private rooms and 15 observation beds."The heart of this new facility are the teammates who will work here - the nurses, surgeons, anesthesiologists and many others - and the skill and compassion that they bring to each interaction with their patients," said Dr. Wesley Burks, CEO of UNC Health and Dean of the UNC School of Medicine. "I'm...

North Carolina housing experts aren’t surprised so many cities ranked among the top 30 best real estate markets. Here’s why.

Beth Wood, the former state auditor and longtime Democrat is backing a Republican with limited experience in governmental auditing over the sitting Democratic auditor, Jessica Holmes, whom Gov. Roy Cooper endorses.

In a memo he sent introducing himself to the campus community, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts expressed a desire to move toward applied disciplines. He wanted to steer more students into “high-demand fields” to satisfy “critical state needs.”  This is corporate-speak, resonant of Roberts’ career in the financial sector, so insipid as to be almost meaningless. But Roberts’ pablum reflects […] The post UNC should be more than a trade school first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina opens the 2024 season by hitting the road, as the Tar Heels travel to take on Minnesota on Thursday night at Huntington Bank Stadium (8 p.m., FOX). It's the second time the two programs have met in football, after UNC defeated the Golden...

A water main break at the University Place shopping center on Friday night has caused “irreparable” damage to the Kidzu Children’s Museum, according to a release from the museum. “Our incredible team rushed in before dawn Saturday morning to start the clean-up process and we are salvaging...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Linda Pryor started her career in dentistry, but now she’s a farmer. “Being able to make people feel comfortable, reassure them that you’re doing everything you can do to have a good product is the same as I was doing in dentistry,” Pryor said.

A North Carolina man found his car trouble to be unexpectedly lucky when a trip to the repair shop earned him a $379,747 lottery jackpot.

Minnesota will be hosting North Carolina this week, and the game is bound to draw national attention for many reasons, despite neither team appearing in the Preseason AP Poll. After all, it’s the ACC against the Big Ten, and the only matchup of Power Four teams on Thursday night. Coach P.J. Fleck is attempting to win three-straight season-openers, but he’ll have to do that against a team that beat his Golden Gophers by 18 points last year.

GEDDES, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A 34-year-old man from North Carolina was arrested on Saturday, August 24, near the New York State Fairgrounds for having an AR-15 rifle and a 30-round magazine in his truck. New York State Police say Troopers saw the man, Curtis Young, acting suspiciously after he took the exit ramp from I-690 […]

SELMA — County industry recruiter Chris Johnson demurs when asked for details about a new industry before the scheduled announcement. “Project announcements can be volatile and may evaporate before they get off the ground,” he says in a common refrain. That hasn’t happened, so far, with Project Tray. But an email on Friday had the word “POSTPONED” across the top […] The post At state’s request, Johnston postpones new industry announcement first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.

On Tuesday, thousands of students will be heading back to class in the state's biggest school district. It's the first day for Wake County Schools, and WRAL News is your back-to-school headquarters!

Earlier this year, North Carolina became one of the first states in the country to develop statewide guidance for the use of generative AI in public schools, and teachers say they are constantly adapting to the developing world of artificial intelligence.

"It's good to see everybody here. It means it's actually game week. It's finally here, and none too soon. We're really excited to begin to open up our season. Had a really good training camp, but ultimately, you just reach that point where you've got to go play somebody. You've got to go find out what you're all about. In our world, today is a Tuesday, even though it's a Monday on the calendar, with the game on Friday. So this morning, we had our second Tuesday practice for Elon. Got a lot of respect for those guys. I think Tony [Trisciani] and his staff do a great job. Certainly, Dovonte Edwards, their defense coordinator, does a really nice job. Dovonte was at NC State when I was there many moons ago. So, familiar faces. A team that has our full respect. I was actually surprised when the FCS top-25 came out that they were not ranked. I feel like they should be ranked, two top-five victories a year ago, and then bring a lot of experience back. When you have a quarterback who's playing in his seventh year, and if you look at his numbers the last five games, I think 1,200 yards with 12 touchdowns against no interceptions. I mean, that's as good as anybody anywhere. Four out of five starters back on an offensive line, a receiver that could play anywhere in our league. Same thing at safety – an All-American safety. So, they've got really good players. They've got familiarity in their scheme, which we don't. This will be our first time. Like all first games, from those that taught me, it's more about the basics that you do well. Season openers normally come down to conditioning, which our guys have great confidence in David Feeley that we'll be in shape to play a game. They come down to tackling, because we all have very limited tackling opportunities during the month of August. And then, tackling goes hand-in-hand with turnovers. Ball security comes at a premium. And nobody, I'm sure on either side, has tackled a quarterback. Nobody turns the ball over more than quarterbacks do. So, again, ball security, tackling, and turnovers goes hand-in-hand there. And then, finally, special teams, in terms of making sure that you're sound. You've already seen some examples from the Week Zero games of bad snaps over punters' heads, a muffed kick at the goal line. And it gave us some great video to show our guys in our special teams meeting yesterday of some things that have actually happened that we have a chance to coach off of and hopefully avoid some of the same mistakes. But, as I said, we're excited to go play."

Expectations are high this year for North Carolina State. The Wolfpack are coming off a strong season, made significant offensive additions in the transfer portal and are following up a successful spring for the school, which saw their men's and women's basketball teams both make the Final Four and the baseball team land in the College World Series. With an expanded College Football Playoff looming, many supporters of NC State hope that The Year of the Wolf continues. It all begins on Thursday night in Raleigh, N.C., when the No. 24 Wolfpack host FCS Western Carolina to kick off their...

All sites on the Upper Neuse and Tar-Pamlico watersheds passed the Swim Guide test this week, meeting the state’s recreational water-quality standards. The N.C. Highway 50 boat ramp, launches at Buffaloe Road, Poole Road and Ledge Rock on Falls Lake were not tested this week. “We’ve seen pretty good water quality in the upper part of the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico […] The post All sites pass Swim Guide test this week first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.