Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline When Hurricane Helene tore through western Yancey County, Steve Boyd was one of thousands in the area who lost internet access. The 70-year-old retiree, who lives outside of Burnsville, knows he got lucky. He didn’t lose his house, or his belongings — just a couple nearby trees that knocked out the power. […]
Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News Addressing a crowded ballroom at a Raleigh hotel last Wednesday, Gov. Josh Stein said he is “gravely concerned” about congressional Republicans’ plans to slash federal funding for Medicaid. “These proposals would take away people’s access to health care, destabilize rural hospitals and challenge the bipartisan progress we have made here in […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Corn farmers on food stamps and taking second jobs. Equipment not being repaired. Debts going unpaid. That’s the reality for many North Carolina corn growers this spring. Last year was the worst season for the crop in state history, according to Ronnie Heiniger, a corn specialist at N.C. State. Drought […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The town of Spruce Pine’s riverfront park has been under a layer of mud since Helene’s floodwaters receded. North Carolina’s legislature passed more than $1 billion with two Helene recovery funding bills in October, but by mid-February, about two-thirds of that money still hadn’t been spent. The two bills allocated funding for […]
Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio As more people enter continuing care retirement communities, a bill in the North Carolina General Assembly would create new rules for those facilities. The legislation is partly in response to serious financial troubles at Aldersgate, which is one of Charlotte’s oldest and best-known retirement facilities. The Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter has been […]
Bill Hutchinson/ABC News A massive wildfire burning for more than a week in South Carolina jumped the border Saturday and was spreading Sunday into North Carolina, where firefighters were already battling multiple blazes, officials said. The Table Rock Fire, which started on March 21 in the Table Rock State Park in Pickens County, South Carolina, […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A proposal to limit commercial fishers’ harvest of blue crabs treads rough waters after advisory committees to the state Marine Fisheries Commission agreed the rule should not move forward. The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries’ recommendation targets catch of mature female crabs. The proposed move comes as fisheries officials are […]
Rodney Overton/CBS 17 News There’s been a lot of feedback this week about a new parking plan and payment system at a North Carolina island. Sunset Beach is a community that includes an island with 3 miles of beaches located in far southern Brunswick County. For much of its existence, the island was reachable only […]
Michael Singleton/The Daily Tar Heel Amid changes in Ph.D. admissions across the country, faculty and prospective students are left wondering what current and future developments might mean for UNC. Last month, the UNC Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program announced a preemptive decrease in admissions for their incoming class. While the program has historically admitted around […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView The 30-day pause on construction of the Cumberland County Crown Event Center in downtown Fayetteville stems from a $1.9 million “additional architect’s fee” from the EwingCole architecture firm. That is specified in a legal representation agreement, signed March 5, between the Hutchens Law Firm of Fayetteville and the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners. […]
Republicans have been making news this session for their interest in narrowing the scope of the state attorney general’s authority. But there’s one GOP senator that wants to widen it. Sen. Jim Burgin’s move in Senate Bill 624 is part of his broader effort to lay down some legislative markers surrounding the use of AI. […]
House members are trying once again to loosen some of the reins that limit the operations of North Carolina credit unions. This year’s bill, House Bill 187, cleared the chamber on March 25 on a 101-11 vote that featured bipartisan support and opposition. HB 187 is more or less the same “credit union update” bill […]
Jeff Stein & Theodoric Meyer/The Washington Post President Donald Trump is pushing senior advisers to go bigger on tariff policy as they prepare for what the White House has called “Liberation Day,” the April 2 date he has set for a major escalation in his global trade war, four people familiar with the matter said. […]
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily Environmentalist groups notified the City of Asheboro and two of its major industries of their intent to sue for violating the Clean Water Act with toxic pollution flowing downstream to the tri-county region. This comes as local officials urge state regulators to enforce 1,4-dioxane limits. The Southern Environmental Law Center sent […]
Brian Slodysko & Michael Biesecker/The Associated Press A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member of a college fraternity that glorified the pre-Civil War South. The emergence of the photographs comes at a […]
