Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A city-operated wastewater treatment plant in Randolph County discharged substantially high levels of 1,4-dioxane last month into a tributary of the Cape Fear River, the drinking water supply for about 1 million North Carolinians. Several downstream businesses and water utilities, including Cape Fear Public Utility Authority in Wilmington and Pender County […]
Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Repairing Interstate 40 so that two lanes can be opened in each direction will require a stunning engineering and construction feat, with work scheduled to begin in March and lasting at least two years. After considering a range of possibilities, including a viaduct and tunnel, engineers are holding to the plan […]
Rusty Jacobs/WUNC Radio Duke University student Sofia Dib-Gomez was excited to vote in the election back in November. She registered in Durham last August, soon after arriving on campus as a first-year student. As a fellow with the Duke Votes mobilization effort, Dib-Gomez said she had become quite familiar with the voter registration process. As […]
Makiya Seminera/The Associated Press Emily Russell remembers feeling hopeful after she managed to get an appointment with the Federal Emergency Management Agency not long after Hurricane Helene ripped though her home in Swannanoa, North Carolina. But after several assistance requests were denied or left pending, Russell says the agency has been of “no help” to […]
Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh Estella Patterson, Raleigh’s outgoing police chief, says she believes she will have successfully brought the Raleigh Police Department back to full strength by this summer. Why it matters: Like many police departments across the country, RPD has been plagued by a large number of unfilled positions since the pandemic and the wider […]
Catherine Muccigrosso/The Charlotte Observer A Formula 1 racing team wants to expand its operations to the center of NASCAR country in Concord, spend up to $85 million and create up to 350 jobs. Not to be outdone, a NASCAR team also is plotting an expansion for a new manufacturing building in a project costing up […]
Sammy Fretwell/The (Palmetto) State In a push to help South Carolina meet future energy needs, the state House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a comprehensive bill intended to make building power plants easier by limiting some government restrictions on new projects. The complex bill, which advances efforts to build a large natural gas plant in […]
Kristen Blair/Education NC The North Carolina Charter Schools Review Board (CSRB) approved renewals for four public charter schools at its virtual meeting on Monday, Feb. 10. The CSRB delayed its vote on a fifth charter renewal until March, in order to hear from school leaders about financial management issues outlined in an audit report. The […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro A partnership between the Town of Chapel Hill and the UNC Health system is officially ready to help boost local affordable housing efforts. In a release Thursday afternoon, the local government announced its Affordable Housing Loan Fund with the healthcare system and Self-Help Ventures Fund is launching to applicants after reaching the […]
Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat In December, a group of Amish volunteers from Pennsylvania partnered with local organizers in Boone to construct tiny homes for individuals displaced by Hurricane Helene. Now, weeks after their construction, the homes have been successfully delivered to communities in need, marking another success in a grassroots relief effort. The initiative, led […]
Gov. Josh Stein has added 10 more people to his senior staff, bringing on board more veterans of predecessor Roy Cooper’s administration as well as some hires from further afield. Former U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawyer Adam Chandler heads the list, joining up as the governor’s policy director. The Burlington native is a Duke grad […]
Folks are pouring over the latest Meredith Poll results, which the school announced on Thursday and among other things show 56% of those questioned would like to see a third party take hold in the country’s politics. Only 25% said the Democratic and Republican parties do an adequate job of representing Americans, according to the […]
UNC Charlotte will get a $7.2 million gift to help pay for the work of the university’s Center for Precision Metrology, officials reported to campus trustees this week. The pledge comes from Graham Siddall, a native of Great Britain who’s considered a leading figure in the science of measurement, a field vital to advanced manufacturing that requires […]
Should North Carolina embark on its own version of the Trump administration’s DOGE effort, House and Senate leaders have very different ideas about how to do it. House Speaker Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, in late January set up an interim House Select Committee on Governmental Efficiency and assigned Reps. Keith Kidwell, R-Beaufort, and John Torbett, R-Gaston, […]
Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan/The (Raleigh) News & Observer A local sheriff from his district is challenging the most powerful Republican lawmaker in North Carolina. Senate leader Phil Berger, who lives in Eden, will have a primary opponent in the 2026 election if he decides to run for reelection. Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page announced his run […]
