In 2023, the drinking water produced by the Fayetteville Public Works Commission had as much as 28 times the maximum level of “forever chemical” contaminants in it than the Environmental Protection Agency will allow under new standards announced this spring. Since the EPA did not set a standard until April of this year for these […]
Greensboro residents voiced frustration with city officials about a proposal to move contaminated soil from Bingham Park to a local landfill at a community meeting on Wednesday. The plan, if approved, would involve moving more than 11,000 truckloads of dirt to the White Street Landfill. The site is the closet and most cost-efficient of three […]
Mission Health board members were blindsided by HCA Healthcare’s decision to aggressively cut patient care staff in order to save money following its purchase of the hospital system in 2019, according to a working draft of a study out of Wake Forest University from a leading scholar on health care law, public policy, and bioethics. […]
Damage to a utility’s power equipment by gunfire found in Durham was associated with an outage that left hundreds of people without power earlier this week, the company said. About 730 people experienced a power outage for about two hours on Monday after reports of “a fire and equipment failure” on Duke Energy’s power distribution […]
Two stabbings in less than a month at Scotland Correctional Institution in Laurinburg have brought renewed scrutiny to the prison that has been plagued with reports of mistreatment, unsafe conditions and overcrowding. The most recent incident, on April 30, resulted in the death of 39-year-old Christopher Michael Edwards, who was found in a common area […]
North Carolina lawmakers have expanded their reach over state government. At the same time, they’ve made it harder for the public to see what they’re doing. State legislative leaders two years ago tucked $6 million into the state budget for a newly formed company developing a novel COVID treatment — a device that would shine […]
Lawyers representing state legislative leaders were in court Thursday in Raleigh, arguing to throw out an anti-gerrymandering lawsuit that targets the state’s new political districts. The lawsuit argues that the state constitution guarantees the right to fair elections, and it says the new districts violate that promise. The Republican-led legislature argues that no such right […]
As Dollar Tree looks for a buyer for the North Carolina-founded Family Dollar franchise, what comes next for shoppers relying on its cheap goods remains unclear. Based in the Charlotte area since Family Dollar’s foundation in 1959, Virginia-based Dollar Tree purchased the chain in 2015 for $8.5 billion, then shuttered its North Carolina headquarters in […]
Insufficient child care is costing North Carolina about $5.65 billion each year, a new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation estimates. The report, released in partnership with the N.C. Chamber Foundation and NC Child, looked at the ways a lack of child care access hurts the state’s economy. Employers lose $4.29 billion a […]
At a sparsely attended meeting in May at the Carrboro-based Orange Water and Sewer Authority board member Todd BenDor asked Stephen Winters, OWASA’s executive deputy director, an expensive question about what it would cost the utility to clean up the PFAS present in its water, which supplies about 80,000 customers in southern Orange County. “Back […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills. By a unanimous vote, the court said the anti-abortion doctors who brought the challenge had failed to show they had been harmed, as they do not prescribe the medication, and thus, essentially, had no skin […]
Canton is on a trajectory to bankrupt its sewer fund by early fall 2025 based on the proposed town budget slated for adoption at the town board meeting Thursday. By next March, the free ride Canton has enjoyed from the mill for decades will be over. Canton will no longer be able to rely on […]
A metals recycling business associated with Toyota announced it will build a plant in Liberty to process battery material for off-site recycling and handle other waste streams, including cardboard and plastic, produced by the Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina plant. Green Metals Inc. will invest $19.8 million over five years to open the plant, which […]
If North Carolina beaches are going to keep up their tug-of-war with the sea to maintain robust ocean shores, they’re going to need sand and a lot of it. But, in an era when mining sand and pumping it onto beaches has become a go-to means of fortifying shores against erosion and storms, finding that […]
Student-athletes at public high schools in North Carolina will not be able to profit from their name, image, and likeness after the State Board of Education adopted a new amateurism policy, which includes a ban on NIL activities. The policy was adopted on June 6 during a vote that included a number of unrelated action […]
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