Every year, North Carolina public universities have to file reports showing compliance with the state’s equality policy. This year’s report from UNCW showed that it renamed a core component to remove the word ‘diverse,’ documented faculty training, and addressed potential issues with private scholarship language.

We’re headed into the final lap of the election season, and so it is, of course, time for October Surprises. Usually this means nasty and scandalous dirt on a candidate, but in this case, it’s actually some ostensibly good news — a reprieve on gas prices statewide and a proposed boost to local film grant funding. But just because it’s positive, doesn’t mean it’s not political.

Brazilian artist Rodrigo Amarante performed at the American Tobacco Campus on Saturday, October 10, 2026 as part of the Good Moon Festival.

Nearly 39,000 fewer guests attended the Carolina Classic Fair this year compared to last. Officials are attributing the decline to Saturday's weather-related closure.