Project Kitty Hawk, named for the town near the Outer Banks site of the Wright Brothers’ historic first flight, has nothing to do with aviation. It’s the brainchild of University of North Carolina System leaders, a new education technology nonprofit designed to help UNC campuses run online degree programs for the state’s working adults. Still, […]
When children with severe mood or behavior disorders require intense therapeutic care, they can end up in one of the state’s two dozen psychiatric residential treatment facilities. Operators of these facilities, commonly known as PRTFs, say they stabilize children and provide trauma-informed care that lets them return to their communities on a track toward healing. […]
Two decades ago, a group of senior-housing executives came up with a way to raise revenue and reduce costs at assisted-living homes. Using stopwatches, they timed caregivers performing various tasks, from making beds to changing soiled briefs, and fed the information into a program they began using to determine staffing. Brookdale Senior Living, the leading […]
A new economic model from North Carolina researchers suggests that tax incentives for high income property owners and federal subsidies for beach nourishment projects continue to increase coastal property prices, despite growing climate risks from sea level rise. “Wealthier and wealthier people continue to move into these [coastal] communities. And that continues to bid up […]
A project in the works will change the ways rail travels in Wilmington, including closing some crossings and making improvements to new ones. The changes will be made to the existing 13-mile CSX rail line, commonly referred to as the “beltline”; it’s the only active track through the city. The beltline is part of a […]
Plans for the state’s first recreational marijuana sales are on hold as the Eastern Band of Cherokee announces their marijuana dispensary will only sell medical marijuana during its grand opening. The Great Smoky Cannabis Company dispensary will be the first in the state. A joint statement issued by tribal leadership said there are still too […]
As they walked down East Moore Street in Southport, Jacques and Marie Tremblay were having an animated conversation that anyone who isn’t from North Carolina probably has had at one time or another when contemplating grabbing an iced tea: sweet or unsweet? The Canadian snowbirds from just outside Montreal, Quebec, had decided to stop in […]
The Circle K located off U.S. Highway 264 on Raleigh Road Parkway West is getting some major upgrades with its full renovation, including 24 electric vehicle charging stations and the restaurant Krystal. Robbie Craft, regional category manager for Circle K, said the 24-vehicle charging station will be the largest supercharging site in North Carolina. “It’s […]
When the North Carolina Education Lottery Commission met last week, the focus was largely on how lucrative mobile sports betting had been since its March 11th launch. What received less attention was how lottery tickets were performing. Total sales through the first seven months of the fiscal year were down $40.2 million over the same […]
The University of North Carolina Wilmington Blue Economy Index is live on Bloomberg terminals as of last month, according to Richard Keary, an advisor on the project. The UNCW team that built the index announced the news on LinkedIn Wednesday, after learning from its calculation agent INDXX that the index was posted in February under […]
