Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Amanda Watson was diagnosed with breast cancer three weeks after having an emergency cesarean section to deliver her second son. Her test results showed she had one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, with a high recurrence rate and low survival rate. The following six months of chemotherapy treatments […]
Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh North Carolina has the third highest number of birds affected by avian influenza in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Why it matters: The number of reported avian flu outbreaks across the U.S. has increased significantly in recent weeks, with more egg-producing chickens being affected since the start of […]
Cory Turner/WUNC Radio The Trump administration is exploring dramatic cuts to programs and staff at the U.S. Department of Education, including executive action shuttering department programs that are not protected by law and calling on Congress to close the department entirely. The executive action could come as early as this week, according to multiple government […]
WRAL News Children, already traumatized by something in their home life, are spending years in North Carolina’s foster care system after intervention from their local Department of Social Services. Records show some of those children are even shuffled between nearly two dozen homes. Now a new federal lawsuit wants the courts to step in to […]
Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer With President Trump’s promise to streamline government and curb spending, Haywood County’s Congressional House representative said key moves are already in the works, including streamlining the process for budget cutting and identifying allocations for the chopping block. Chuck Edwards, R-Hendersonville, is a member of the House Appropriations and Budget committees, putting […]
Frank Langfitt/WFAE Radio The Sunday after Donald Trump won a second term, Pastor Ben Boswell took to the pulpit at Myers Park Baptist, a liberal church in Charlotte, and delivered the sort of blunt, provocative sermon for which he is well known. Boswell likened the moment to what he called the “gathering dark of Hitler’s […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A standing-room-only crowd came to the City Council meeting Monday to weigh in on a request from High Point University to relocate a section of the city’s greenway around the campus. A total of 43 people spoke on a proposal by HPU that would close a 2,300-foot-long section of the […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The first of two new appointments to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees was made recently, as the UNC System Board of Governors made its selection of Ritch Allison to replace Dave Boliek. Allison — who was formally selected on Thursday and announced Friday by the system’s flagship university — will fill the […]
Wes Platt/Southpoint Access Many Mt. Moriah Road residents may be feeling some relief today after the Durham City Council voted unanimously Monday night to oppose the Moriah Ridge development that would straddle Durham and Orange county lines. The project, proposed by M/I Homes of Raleigh, would’ve brought 1,000 apartments, townhouses, and single-family homes to 168 […]
Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald A 47-year-old man who was listed as Sanford’s traffic services supervisor in a recent Google search was charged with 69 felonies for obtaining property by false pretense and nine felonies for financial identity fraud. The amount of the alleged fraud totaled in the thousands of dollars. Anthony Dean Floyd, 47, […]
Gov. Josh Stein asked legislators to release $1.1 billion from the state’s reserves to fund an assortment of hurricane-relief efforts in western North Carolina through the summer. Stein said the state faces “dire and immediate” recovery needs that can’t wait on larger flows of federal aid to begin arriving. “We cannot remain reactive to temporary […]
The NC Chamber isn’t joining its national counterpart in condemning the federal government’s prospective deployment of new tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China. “Like the rest of the country, our membership includes varying perspectives on tariffs,” NC Chamber President Gary Salamido said Monday. “One thing is certain though. People are the priority for employers and […]
Josh Boak, Rob Gillies & Fabiola Sánchez/The Associated Press U.S. President Donald Trump held off Monday on his tariff threats against Mexico for one month of further negotiations after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country’s national guard to the border to address drug trafficking. Trump’s tariffs against Canada and […]
Ari Hawkins/Politico President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China may be illegal under the Constitution. But blocking the tariffs in court is likely to be difficult — and time-consuming. Trump announced Saturday he was levying 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and a 10 percent tariff on goods from […]
Ben Rappaport/Border Belt Independent Bladen County wants its money back. The county gave Elizabethtown $100,000 in April 2023 to create a master plan for a mixed-use project at the town’s industrial park. Elizabethtown then opted to veer from the shared vision of the park and abandon its longstanding relationship with Bladen County’s Economic Development Commission […]
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