Aidyn Fischli/Port City Daily Dylan Bradshaw stared up at the ad lighting up one of the largest billboards in Times Square. The CeraVe campaign he had filmed with famous TikTok star Charli D’Amelio was now nearly the size of a football field. The popular skincare company had flown him out to New York City for […]
UNC Chapel Hill will jumpstart the process of enrollment growth by adding 500 students to the fall 2025 class, Chancellor Lee Roberts says. Speaking to a trustees committee, Roberts termed this “an important down payment” on what’s to come and added that he believes the university can accommodate the additional students. “It’s not easy, there […]
UNC Chapel Hill trustees are poised to appoint alumna and public-relations specialist Nancy Bailey to the board of WUNC Public Radio. Bailey’s candidacy won the support of the trustees’ External Affairs committee on Wednesday, teeing it up for a ratification vote by all the trustees today. The matter is on the consent agenda, so no […]
Only a day after he turned in his resignation, former Wake County Rep. Joe John succumbed to cancer. The announcement from his wife and children came via Facebook, where they said he had gone “peacefully, surrounded by his loving family.” The 85-year-old five-term House member and former judge “was a dedicated statesman who selflessly committed […]
Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The clock ran out on hundreds of WNC families who lost their homes during Helene last week, as FEMA pulled the plug on hotel vouchers for those who allegedly no longer met the criteria for housing assistance. The timing couldn’t have been worse — coinciding with both an arctic blast and […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press It is hard to overstate the damage that Tropical Storm Helene inflicted on farmers in Western North Carolina. High winds. Landslides. Extreme flooding. They all ripped apart their land, removing acres of fertile soil that took thousands of years and millions of dollars to cultivate. Barns and bails of hay […]
Gavin Off/The Charlotte Observer Craig Watts, who once made a career of raising hundreds of thousands of chickens in North Carolina, knows the torment and the crushing financial stress that can come with the job. In the 1990s, he needed $400,000 in loans to build four chicken houses on his Robeson County farm. A decade […]
Victoria Dittmar & Paulina Ríos/InsightCrime When Mario heard the news in mid-May 2023, he immediately suspended his operations. After five years of booming fentanyl trafficking in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, “the bosses,” as he called the Sinaloa Cartel faction of the Chapitos, issued a blunt directive: stop all production in the state. Sinaloa had […]
The Associated Press A central North Carolina local school board member was sentenced to active prison time after being convicted of extortion and other crimes, with some related to the attempted blackmail of a congressional candidate. At the close of a trial Friday, jurors found Ronald Lee Johnson Jr. guilty of four counts. Superior Court […]
Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro The start of a new year in North Carolina also means a round of new laws that were set to take effect on January 1. One of the most high-profile such laws is HB10, which requires county sheriffs to comply with detainer requests from the federal office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
Helu Wang/USA Today Network Despite two days of heavy rain, property manager Rachael Lee was not expecting anything more severe than a power outage on the day she was on call. At 5:46 a.m. on Sept. 27, she was woken by a text from a co-worker asking if she was aware of a mandatory evacuation […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News The recent fires ravaging Los Angeles have highlighted the dangers faced in firefighting — winds, fast-moving flames, smoke, chemical fumes — but it turns out that one of the most persistent hazards faced by firefighters could be the very clothing designed to protect them, according to a recent report. In December, […]
Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News About 312,000 North Carolina teachers’ social security numbers were exposed in the PowerSchool breach, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction told WRAL News. Another 910 students’ social security numbers were exposed, as well. The PowerSchool CEO met in a virtual call with school leaders Tuesday evening, and a DPI spokesperson said […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily One newly minted board chair is already taking the heat after appointing members of the opposite party to lead several committees. New Hanover County Board of Education Chair Melissa Mason, a Republican, was accused of “playing footsie with radical Democrats for personal political power” by the head of her own party […]
President Trump’s first-day executive order on offshore wind projects appears to bar the issuance of new leasing rights, but it holds out the prospect of eventually revoking the leases the federal government has already issued. That means fresh uncertainty for Dominion Energy’s $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, along with any future projects that […]
