Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio East Carolina University and UNC-Chapel Hill are partnering on a multimillion dollar renewable energy project for coastal communities. It will last for five years, and researchers from the two public universities will work to improve marine technology in the town of Nags Head. The project will have several stages. In the first, […]
Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Student cellphone use and education technology are going under review in Wake County schools. The Wake County school system plans to send out a districtwide survey on the issues as early as next month. District officials plan to present their survey plans to the Wake school board’s policy committee on Tuesday. It’s […]
Jonathan M. Gitlin/ARS Technica Today, Polestar electric vehicles gained access to the Tesla Supercharger network. That means US Polestar drivers have access to 17,800 more DC fast chargers than they did yesterday—once they get a NACS adapter, which can also be ordered today from their local Polestar service point. But right now, Polestar has bigger […]
Kara Fohner/Gaston Gazette A federal lawsuit filed against the Gaston County Police Department by two Black police officers alleges that the police department repeatedly discriminated against the two officers by passing them over for promotions in favor of less qualified white candidates. Gaston County Police officer Nick Jamoulis and Cpt. Brent Roberts assemble bikes bought […]
Rachel Baldauf/Border Belt Independent Grace Gerberry has been riding horses since she was big enough to sit up on one. When it came time to choose a college, a Google search led her to St. Andrews University in North Carolina. After talking with the roughly 40 members of the school’s equestrian program, which boasts a […]
North Carolina continues to leave money on the table by failing to get its child-care house in order, a new report from the N.C. Department of Commerce argues. Issued on Oct. 23, the “Empowering Work” report notes that the labor-force participation rate of “prime-age” parents of young children declined in 2023, to 77.5% versus a […]
The state’s attempt to recover the $12 million in incentives it paid Pactiv Evergreen to operate the now-closed Canton paper mill remains alive, thanks to a ruling from a Wake County trial judge. Superior Court Judge Graham Shirley on Oct. 21 rejected Pactiv’s motion to have the state’s clawback lawsuit dismissed. Pactiv’s lawyers argued that […]
Aid for the N.C. Department of Transportation’s road-restoration efforts in western North Carolina was conspicuous by its absence from the General Assembly’s $604.2 million second-round package of hurricane relief funding. That’s not because road-reconstruction needs are small, or that legislators are unaware of or unsympathetic to the need. To the contrary, DOT “related to us […]
The N.C. Railroad is getting $105.6 million from the federal government to fund seven upgrades in the Triangle and the Triad along its rail corridor, Gov. Roy Cooper’s office says. State officials are matching the federal grant with $34 million from the N.C. Department of Transportation. The Norfolk Southern Corp. — which operates the corridor […]
WRAL News Raleigh is going to have a new mayor in the coming weeks. Five people are vying to replace outgoing Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin (listed in alphabetical order by last name): Janet Cowell, former North Carolina State Treasurer and former Dix Park Conservancy President Paul Fitts, mortgage lender. Ran for mayor in 2017. Eugene Myrick, […]
Emily Thomas/Education NC Sunday, Oct. 27 marks one month since Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina. While recovery efforts are underway, needs will continue to surface in the weeks and months ahead — everything from professional counseling to dehumidifiers to warm clothing as the winter months approach. As community leaders process their own trauma […]
Bethany Greene & Matthew Martin/Fed Reserve Bank of Richmond As a regional Reserve Bank, we keep a pulse on the Fifth District economy using a variety of sources, including anecdotal information from contacts in our region. To supplement our initial analysis on the economic impact of Hurricane Helene, we’ve compiled some early insights that detail […]
Patrick George/InsideEVs The Volkswagen Group has big plans for its new by-America, for-America extended range EV subsidiary, Scout Motors. However, those plans won’t include one longtime ally: its U.S. dealership network. As InsideEVs reported yesterday, one of the biggest announcements in the Scout debut is that the revived brand won’t rely on a traditional franchised […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press As Western North Carolina works to regain a sense of normalcy four weeks after Tropical Storm Helene and sessions for most courts resume, judicial officials in some disaster-area counties are attempting to catch up on a case backlog. When Helene rolled through North Carolina on Sept. 27, 38 counties reported court […]
Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The science panel that advises the state Coastal Resources Commission is showing with a new report how the findings of a 2022 federal-level report projecting that sea levels will rise by more than a foot by 2050 apply to North Carolina. Released in mid-October, the “North Carolina 2024 Sea Level Rise […]
