Monday morning, the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a $3 million economic development grant to Corning Incorporated to expand its facility in Wilmington. Wilmington City Council will hold a similar hearing to invest $2 million in the same proposal Tuesday night.

The Great North Carolina Tree Conference is a chance for arborists, advocates, and tree enthusiasts to share urban forestry ideas with other communities around the state – and learn from new approaches being tried in other towns and cities. Rhonda Waterhouse attended the conference as a member of Wilmington’s Tree Commission, and filed this report for WHQR.

Guilford County Schools enrollment fell nearly 2,000 short of projections, officials say, citing the housing market, school choice and a declining birth rate.

Winston-Salem's Bethesda Center for the Homeless will close temporarily on October 25 to stabilize the organization and rebuild more sustainably.