Brady Dennis/The Washington Post There was no worship service Sunday morning at the First Baptist Church. No hymns or sermons or Communion. But there were hugs in the parking lot and tears running down tired faces — and, importantly, food and water for anyone finally able to make their way out from the devastation that […]
Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio Western North Carolina is reeling from the devastating floods, landslides and storm damage brought by the remnants of Hurricane Helene. The storm has left thousands of people stranded in the mountains and is being blamed for at least 11 deaths across the state, according to the North Carolina medical examiner’s office. Joining […]
Brian Gordon/The News & Observer For three decades, North Carolina kept striking out on a major car factory. Mercedes-Benz spurned the Tar Heel State for Alabama in 1993, and in subsequent years, fellow foreign manufacturers Volkswagen, Audi, Volvo, Toyota and Mazda bypassed North Carolina to open factories in nearby Southeastern states. But in the winter […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press University of North Carolina Chapel Hill students will no longer be able to use their mobile student IDs to vote after an appellate court ruling against the State Board of Elections on Friday evening. In late August, the State Board of Elections approved UNC-Chapel Hill’s request to include its Mobile UNC […]
Makiya Seminera/The Associated Press As Laurie Buckhout made her way around Nash County GOP headquarters in Rocky Mount, she seemed to be in high spirits. The Republican congressional candidate bounced around the crowded room, hugging and laughing with volunteers set to canvass local neighborhoods that afternoon. But a scandal emerging in North Carolina politics was […]
Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice In a recent four-day span, three Rodanthe homes were claimed by the sea, bringing the total to 10 homes that have been lost since 2020. That does not include the two homes the National Park Service (NPS) purchased and demolished earlier this year. The two homes the NPS demolished had once […]
Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC A national webinar hosted on Wednesday highlighted how two North Carolina rural school districts — Polk and Bertie — used federal COVID-relief funds to respond to student and community needs during the pandemic. The webinar, hosted by the Rural Education Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association, focused on […]
Shea Carver/Port City Daily A request to adjust a 5,000-acre development master land use plan left councilors with more questions than answers and ultimately prevented them from taking action Thursday. At the Leland Town Council meeting, the five-member board, including the mayor, took up a land use amendment to Brunswick Forest’s master plan. Despite the […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review If everything goes accordingly, Surf City’s ocean shore may begin getting massive sand injections by the end of next year. The town’s federal coastal storm risk management project — more than 20 years in the making — will put a total of 21.8 million cubic yards of sand on the beach over […]
Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh GoTriangle, the regional transit agency for Durham, Orange and Wake counties, is looking for a new leader after its president and CEO, Charles Lattuca, resigned from his position. Why it matters: The resignation puts GoTriangle at a crossroads on how it will serve one of the fastest-growing yet car-reliant regions in the […]
It’s going to be a while before the full extent of Hurricane Helene’s toll on western North Carolina is known, but it’s going to be historic. “People are desperate for help, and we are pushing to get it to them, a massive effort,” Gov. Roy Cooper told reporters Sunday afternoon. “This is an unprecedented tragedy […]
As for electricity, Duke Energy reported hat about 375,000 customers in the west were without power as of 3 p.m. Sunday, along with 14,000 or so to the northeast of Charlotte. The largest cluster of Duke outages was in the Asheville area. There are also six electrical co-ops in the region — from west to […]
The biggest problems, for the moment, are all related: Road, power- and water-supply outages. The storm closed about 280 roads, most prominently Interstate 40. A mudslide blocked the interstate near Old Fort Mountain to the east of Asheville. By early Sunday afternoon crews had opened “a path through the slide” to allow first responders and […]
Terry Spencer/The Associated Press Hurricane Helene killed and destroyed far and wide — from Tampa to Atlanta to Asheville, North Carolina, its high winds, heavy rains and sheer size created a perfect mix for devastation. The storm made landfall late Thursday along a largely undeveloped expanse of pine trees and salt marshes on Florida’s Big […]
Moss Brennan/The Watauga Democrat Emergency services personnel are confirming the catastrophic damage in Watauga County as recovery efforts remain underway. “Immediate swift water rescues have tapered off,” Watauga County Emergency Services Director Holt said. “We are operating to get roads open and get access to folks that have been cut off.” On the second day […]
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