Guilford County has been tracking infant deaths for decades, yet officials there continue to struggle with high death rates and no answers. Jean Workman and Leandra Vernon with Every Baby Guilford hope to change that with the formation of North Carolina’s only Fetal and Infant Mortality Review program. “As time goes on, the more we […]
Those white blades the length of a city block that have been at the North Carolina Port at Morehead City the last few weeks are destined for great heights. Vestas, a wind turbine company based in Portland, Oregon, manufactured the onshore wind turbine components, which arrived in mid-March from India on cargo ships, including the […]
Waynesville’s planning board is still weighing whether short-term vacation rentals should be regulated and limited in town — with plans to examine the issue more thoroughly before making a recommendation. Proposed changes from the town’s Development Services Department would ban some short-term vacation rentals in certain neighborhoods while also imposing parking and garbage regulations on […]
Jefferson Currie steps outside his home in Moore County, and the stench of chicken waste lingers in the air. He takes a sip of his morning coffee and grimaces. The coffee tastes like the beans have been roasted with rancid chicken. Currie lives half a mile from a chicken farm. In southeastern North Carolina, where […]
The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed […]
The future of diversity, equity and inclusion staff jobs in North Carolina’s public university system could be at stake after a five-person committee swiftly voted to repeal a key policy Wednesday. The Committee on University Governance, within the University of North Carolina Board of Governors that oversees 17 schools, voted in less than four minutes […]
While Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s wife told her nonprofit’s clients that she was shutting down because of her husband’s campaign for North Carolina governor, she told a state agency a different story. For years, Yolanda Hill has led a nonprofit called Balanced Nutrition that helps childcare facilities apply for and receive federal funding for kids’ […]
Anyone who has dreamed of owning a property at the beach knows that it’s a goal shared by many. Couple in the growing popularity of coastal living in general − the Wilmington-areas’s population jumped from 200,000 in 1990 to more than 450,000 in 2020 − and home ownership is increasingly becoming the privilege of the […]
The Wilmington City Council meeting did not passTuesday evening without one member bringing up the weekend shooting at a downtown nightclub. At the end of the meeting, council member Luke Waddell brought up the April 14 shooting at Pravda, which resulted in the hospitalization of one victim facing serious injuries. Police arrested Antonio Beatty, after […]
Small purple boxes have become a promising tool in Wilson County’s fight to lessen the deadly toll of the opioid epidemic. ONEbox is a first aid-like kit that contains doses of naloxone, a nasal spray that can rapidly reverse the effects of opioid overdose. When the kit is opened, a screen embedded in the lid […]
National conservative parents rights group Moms for Liberty brought a town hall — and frustration toward public schools — to North Carolina on Wednesday night. Speakers focused on problems in public schools — chiefly, worsening student behavior and test scores that remain below pre-pandemic levels — and suggested more discipline and having schools cut ties […]
Groundwater beneath the former Tarheel Army Missile Plant in Burlington contains two types of toxic PFAS at levels hundreds, even thousands of times higher than proposed state standards. Yet the military never informed the Department of Environmental Quality of its findings — even though officials from both agencies attended the same meeting about contamination at […]
Fayetteville State University Chancellor Darrell T. Allison has postponed a controversial new teaching workload policy at the university until January 2025, following the faculty’s “no confidence” vote this month of university Provost Monica Terrell Leach. “The Faculty Workload policy is still under administrative review, but I was happy to announce that we will delay its […]
One of Asheville’s community farms may be dismantled to make room for a $200,000 playground. The half-acre Southside Community Farm has provided fresh produce for residents of the historically Black neighborhood for a decade, but a proposal by the Housing Authority’s new CEO, Monique Pierre, would eliminate the farm. In lieu of the farm, Pierre […]
With a vast amount of capital improvement projects, the Town of Chapel Hill is weighing the possibility of another bond referendum to borrow more money for a variety of projects. At its work session on Monday night, the town council weighed whether its members would prefer to pick get a bond vote on the ballot […]
