Dr. Jennifer Casaletto dreamed about working in an emergency department for years. “I have the opportunity to treat everyone,” she said, her face lighting up when talking about her career. “That opportunity of sharing in folk’s stories and being able to be with them on many of their worst days, is what we trained to […]
The city of Charlotte is proposing to spend $650 million to renovate Bank of America Stadium. Several Charlotte City Council members on Monday said the city should hold a special public hearing at least one week before a June 24 vote to spend $650 million to renovate Bank of America Stadium. But Mayor Vi Lyles […]
A Davidson County commissioner is charged with simple assault and assault by pointing a gun. Commission Chair Todd Yates is accused of pulling a gun on one of his tenants, James Strickland. Strickland says it happened after a conversation about the building he rents from Yates. Strickland is concerned since Yates is a well-known name […]
Macon County is the latest in Western North Carolina to issue a public health alert about the whooping cough outbreak that is spreading across the region. Six cases have been confirmed, affecting multiple age groups, according to a Friday news release issued by Macon County Public Health. The highly contagious respiratory infection has also shown […]
More than $270 million toward construction projects for Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is pending passage within the MilConVA legislation. Members of the Senate are next to consider the Fiscal Year 2025 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act that cleared the House of Representatives 209-197. If the upper chamber agrees, President […]
For more than 20 years, Steven Hines, has worked in election administration in North Carolina. He served as an elections director in five counties — Pitt, Forsyth, Greene, Carteret counties and most recently, Lenoir County, where he resigned in August 2023. “The pay for elections directors is not equitable to what they’re having to do,” […]
North Carolina Democrats are making a big push this year to win back rural counties that have flipped to Republicans in recent elections. At a barbecue restaurant in rural Gates County, several leaders in the North Carolina Democratic Party recently made the rounds among the tables, introducing themselves to potential voters. The customers at Tarheel […]
Health care premiums for thousands of North Carolina state employees and retirees are expected to increase as the State Health Plan looks for ways to manage a massive funding gap. The health plan’s trustees voted Thursday to increase premiums for 26,000 people on its Medicare Advantage plan — a move that will affect 4,200 retirees […]
On a Friday night in late May, a soccer ball struck 12-year-old Dhruvtej Karande in the face, driving the edge of his glasses into his eyebrow and opening up a two-inch gash. His parents rushed to the nearest urgent care center, but it was already closed when they arrived, said his mom, Priyanka Karande. Then […]
“Why do I feel so out of place? I just feel so weird.” That’s what Chloe Ripoli said was going through their mind at the beginning of the pandemic during quarantine. Their identity was starting to come to the surface. Ripoli, now a senior, is queer and nonbinary. On top of a challenging course load […]
The U.S. Navy, along with its shipbuilders and their thousands of specialty suppliers, need more than 100,000 workers to help build attack and ballistic missile submarines over the coming decade. That’s according to BuildSubmarines.com, whose ubiquitous ads you may have seen during reality TV shows, on NASCAR hoods, at WNBA games, and amid Major League […]
The first North Carolina beach community to build a terminal groin after state lawmakers lifted a 30-year ban is looking at the possibility of constructing more hardened erosion-control structures. The Village of Bald Head Island recently asked its legislative delegates to bump the number of permits the state can issue for terminal groins from six […]
To most people passing by Ben and Isaiah Jernigan’s house on Ellis Road, there is nothing remarkable about the sage green outbuilding in their backyard. Even though the structure looks like it could be a shed, it’s actually the brothers’ “tiny house.” They began building the home last September and have been offering it as […]
After more than a year of studying how to place different development types along the western bank of the Cape Fear River, New Hanover County now wants public feedback on the proposed amendment to its comprehensive plan. County staff are putting forth a change in the land use between the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge and […]
Protestors from a group called Better Government for Leland took part in several rallies outside of Leland Town Hall to protest a proposed tax increase. Recently proposed legislation could give residents the chance to recall elected officials. Leland could soon have a procedure for recalling elected officials. In May, Rep. Frank Iler filed a bill […]
