Cumberland County

North Carolina has significantly less funding to help low-income residents with utility bills this summer. Local governments are getting a fraction of what they've received in previous years.

A commission managed the Cumberland County town's budget after an audit uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in misspent funds.

For nearly 25 years, the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville has been telling the stories of Airborne soldiers who fought in every major conflict since World War II. This year, Cumberland County Commissioners denied the museum’s request for $200,000 in local funding.

The Cumberland County School District held its 5th annual feather ceremony for graduating Native American high school seniors.

Unlike in many states, North Carolina public school teachers can not collectively bargain contracts. Nor can they legally strike. The situation has broad effects for public school employees.

Earlier this year, WUNC reported on a teacher who lost her teaching license because she struggled to pass a licensing exam. ‘Ms. Art’ is an elementary art teacher who struggles with testing anxiety. Now, a policy that passed as part of the state budget offers a solution to keep teachers like her in classrooms.

Local officials in Fayetteville and nonprofit Vision Resource Center recently opened what officials say is the first of its kind “Braille Trail” in the state.

To have a career in teaching, every beginning teacher must first pass a test. More than 1,000 teachers have struggled to pass their exams on time, including this art teacher in Cumberland County Schools.

State Department of Environmental Quality plans remote public hearing for residents as federal guidelines for safe drinking water change due to new research.