WFAE Radio Gaston County will eliminate its Community Support Services Division, which includes the county’s homelessness prevention task force, its veterans service office, a domestic violence shelter, its child protection and fatality teams, and staff managing the county’s opioid settlement funds. According to a news release, County Manager Matt Rhoten made the decision to eliminate […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online The state’s Coastal Resources Commission has unanimously adopted a proposed permanent rule to protect the tallest active sand dune on America’s eastern sea board from, among other things, sand mining. During their quarterly meeting Thursday morning in Ocean Isle Beach, commissioners unanimously approved a permanent rule identifying Jockey’s Ridge as a […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC A WUNC review of this year’s campaign finance reports show the Democratic Leadership Committee directed more than 80% of its fundraising total to the campaigns of Josh Stein and attorney general candidate Jeff Jackson. But it gave none to the campaigns of State Auditor Jessica Holmes, labor commissioner candidate Braxton Winston and agriculture […]
WilmingtonBiz Frontier Scientific Solutions, a temperature-controlled storage and transportation company serving the life sciences industry, announced its plans to develop new state-of-the-art facilities at Wilmington International Airport (ILM) and Shannon Airport (SNN) in County Clare, Ireland. The cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) projects, including a 500,000-square-foot facility at ILM’s business park and an initial 70,000-square-foot […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press From monitoring suspected child abuse and neglect cases to accounting for children in foster care to taking on additional emergency responsibilities and maintaining essential services amid power and communication outages, county Department of Social Services offices faced major disruptions as a result of Tropical Storm Helene in Western North Carolina. Damage […]
Maggie Newland/CBS 17 News A video going viral on TikTok is raising questions about a North Carolina lawmaker’s alleged response to a constituent. The video claims to show an email from North Carolina state Sen. Danny Britt responding to a woman raising concerns about abortion policy by suggesting she leave the country. In the video, […]
John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog A third round of in-reservoir turbidity treatment started Wednesday at the North Fork Reservoir, as a crucial measurement on the path toward potable water continues to drop. Water Resources Department spokesperson Clay Chandler said at Wednesday’s daily Helene briefing that the turbidity measurement, Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTUs), stood at 14.8 in the […]
Anne Blythe/NC Health News As President-elect Donald Trump announces key members of his next administration, many in the oral health profession across North Carolina are brushing up on the facts and figures in fluoride studies and research. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a member of Trump’s transition team who could have an influential health policy role […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education voted to approve a compensation plan that would put $500,000 from the county toward increasing pay for teacher assistants. The district completed a market study looking at compensation for classified staff across other North Carolina districts. The findings show it would take $2.4 million for […]
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A prominent land developer in the tri-county region faces a stop-work order for excavating dirt and filling wetlands without proper permits in Brunswick County. At the same time, New Hanover County has issued violations against him in recent months for at least five projects. In August, eight residents of the unincorporated […]
Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Six barricades: that’s how many barricades the driver circumvented before plowing off a missing section of Interstate 40 to her death. Additionally, new information has come out about the daring rescue to attempt to save the woman. The driver, now identified as 62-year-old Patricia Ann Mahoney of Southern Pines, drove around […]
Jacob Biba/Asheville Citizen Times HCA Healthcare is asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit Buncombe County filed against the Nashville, Tennessee-based health care system earlier this year. In its original complaint, filed Aug. 6 in state superior court and later moved to U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, the county […]
Federal security restrictions are complicating life for university researchers, but officials at the UNC System and its flagship campuses are assuring system leaders that they’re on top of the situation. The rules and expectations around research security have “really developed over the last five years and the track is really still being laid,” said Mary […]
Last year’s debate on casino legalization was mainly a function of Senate leader Phil Berger’s unhappiness about his Rockingham County constituents’ patronage of a gambling den across the Virginia border near Danville. Now, Virginia has given him another border-related issue to fret over. On Wednesday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin and other Virginia officials announced that their […]
Taylor Knopf/NC Health News Just as substance use experts celebrated a somewhat mysterious drop in drug overdose deaths across North Carolina, Hurricane Helene blew through the western part of the state, causing death and widespread property damage. In the storm’s aftermath, many residents found themselves without homes and businesses and facing an uncertain future. For […]
