The Tea: La Farm Bakery comes to N.C. State

🏒 The Florida Panthers dominated the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, 5-0, to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals.

🐊 N.C. Wildlife has launched a website aimed at promoting safer interactions between residents and the state's alligators. (WUNC)

• The state's wildlife hotline received 448 calls concerning alligators last year, mostly from New Hanover and Brunswick counties.

🏠 A coalition of homeowners in Orange County says that historically Black neighborhoods there are being overvalued by the county, leading to excessively large tax bills. (INDY Week)

🍞 La Farm Bakery will open a location on N.C. State's campus in the former Port City Java space. (Triangle Business Journal 🔒)

✅ North Carolina's GOP-controlled state House, with the help of Democrats, gave its final stamp of approval on the chamber's budget proposal, teeing up negotiations with the Senate over personal income tax rates, teacher pay raises, children's hospital funding and more.