Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press Less than two months after the Great Lakes Fire seared 32,000 near the central North Carolina coast, the Pulp Road Wildfire on June 15, 2023, began when a prescribed fire in a longleaf pine forest the previous day slipped from the grasp of the burn team. The blaze in the Green […]
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A council member and former mayor of Carolina Beach argues infrastructure modernization efforts need to take priority after the town was inundated with some of its worst flooding due to tropical cyclone eight hitting the region Monday. A National Weather Service gauge measured over 18 inches of rain at Ocean Boulevard […]
Jennifer Bendery/The Huffington Post In a newly unearthed video from 2022, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) scoffs at the idea that young women should have access to birth control and, repeatedly waving his hand near his groin, says they just need to “get this under control.” During a January 2022 appearance at Hilltop […]
Megan Plotka/NC Newsline AT&T workers with the Communication Workers of America (CWA) in the Southeast returned to work Monday after a 30-day strike. Approximately 300 AT&T technicians, customer service representatives and other workers in north Alabama were on strike for the past month. They joined 17,000 CWA District 3 members on strike across the Southeast. […]
Alli Lindenberg/Education NC “I cannot tell you how good it feels to be back in eastern North Carolina,” said Dr. Maria Pharr, president of Pitt Community College. In mid-August, Pharr began her tenure as president at Pitt Community College after serving as president of South Piedmont Community College for seven years. She is the first […]
Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Smith, 15, has been looking after horses at Shining Hope Farms in north Charlotte for four months. On a recent weekday, he was learning how to ride one. Being around the farm is a new experience for him — it’s one he’s enjoying. “I never had an opportunity to clean horses and […]
Kimberly King/WLOS News Clay Eddleman, the chairman of Henderson County’s Election Board, addressed about 50 citizens on Monday, Sept. 16, during an emergency board meeting to state Linda Rebuck would remain on the board. The meeting comes after last week’s controversy around Rebuck’s email to about 30 Republican state legislators. Eddleman said only the State […]
Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer It’s back to the drawing board for a proposal that would allow Waynesville property owners to build additional homes on their lots in town. The Waynesville town council unanimously voted at its meeting Tuesday night that the town’s planning staff and its planning board get on the same page after town […]
State Treasurer Dale Folwell has come under fire from Local Government Commission members John Burns and Ron Penny, who are suspicious that he’s abusing his authority to unilaterally throw roadblocks in front of a Cabarrus County project. The upshot of the commission’s recent discussion is that it will vote next month on whether to let […]
The same undercurrent surfaced earlier in last week’s meeting as LGC members weighed whether to give Morrisville officials permission to sign a development agreement for its Town Center project. This is a public-private partnership between the Wake County community and Michigan-based Singh Development to create what Town Manager Brandon Zuidema calls “a downtown that has […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView The Sandhills summer put a sheen on the forehead of Fayetteville State University Chancellor Darrell T. Allison on an early July morning. Despite the stifling temperature and humidity, Allison kept his blazer buttoned as he shook hands and greeted construction workers, politicians, trustees, and students. They were gathering to celebrate a new dorm […]
Danielle Battaglia/The (Raleigh) News & Observer A North Carolina man found himself in custody Sunday after the Secret Service’s advance team noticed a barrel of a gun sticking through a fence at the hole where former President Donald Trump was about to play golf. The Secret Service fired at the would-be-shooter, but he got away. […]
Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press On Wednesday April 19, 2023, a campfire may have sparked a wildfire in a pine forest in the core of the 160,000-acre Croatan National Forest, about 20 miles southwest of New Bern. Known as the Great Lakes Fire, the blaze spread from its source to several dozen acres. Then it began […]
Anne Blythe/NC Health News Ana Ilarraza-Blackburn becomes animated when talking about how immigrant communities are thrust into the state and national spotlight during election years. Her voice grows louder, its cadence quickens and she unleashes an impassioned assessment about the negative health impact that political rhetoric can have on immigrant communities — especially those that […]
Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Macon County commissioners have curbed local restrictions that aimed to reduce soil erosion and stream sedimentation. Landowners and developers now will be subject to North Carolina soil disturbance requirements, instead of a more stringent ordinance that’s been in place locally since 2001. In August, Macon County’s Board of Commissioners voted […]
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