Mebane Rash, Kristen Blair & Ben Humphries/EducationNC On March 6, 2025, Gov. Josh Stein visited Micaville Elementary School in Yancey County with Holly Jones, the director of the Governor’s Western North Carolina Office. They met Superintendent Kathy Amos and had a chance to talk — really talk — to Principal Melanie Bennett. Four schools took […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Campers, cyclists, hikers, birding enthusiasts and other outdoor recreationalists would be required to buy an annual pass to access game lands in the state under a proposal floated by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. The “conservation access pass” proposal targets those users because they are increasingly visiting game lands and […]
Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro The future Hillsborough Station is currently set to be completed in 2027, but the town might have to wait a little longer before it comes into fruition. The Orange County Board of Commissioners recently met with the Town of Hillsborough to hear the latest updates. The 20 acre site — located between […]
Santiago Ochoa/WFDD Radio The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is carving out a space for itself in the Triad’s growing battery manufacturing landscape. The school’s recently launched BRIGHT Institute will work with students to train and prepare them for careers in the field. The race to train new professionals was spurred in recent years […]
Rusty Jacobs/WUNC Radio In this file image, protestors gathered outside the state capitol to protest N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin’s effort to invalidate more than 65,000 votes in a race for a state Supreme Court seat. Jefferson Griffin’s effort to invalidate thousands of ballots in his bid for a seat on the North […]
Aaron Beard/The Associated Press N.C. State fired men’s basketball coach Kevin Keatts on Sunday, an abrupt end to an eight-year tenure coming less than a year after the Wolfpack’s improbable run to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and the Final Four. The school announced the move a day after the Wolfpack closed a 12-19 season. […]
Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Documents on file with the Haywood County Register of Deeds give a purchase price for the former paper mill and a suite of related properties now owned by Eric Spirtas and his company. This file shows the list of all 29 parcels included in the $3.36 million sale from Pactiv Evergreen […]
Will Hofmann/Asheville Citizen Times With easy access to local transportation and a central location near the heart of downtown, Buncombe County’s Coxe Avenue “100% affordable” housing project is moving ahead as county staff have suggested a developer for the site. The 50-52 Coxe Ave. project, produced in partnership with the UNC School of Government’s Development […]
Finally, we note that national media outlets are reporting that U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-9th, recently counseled his GOP colleagues to avoid holding in-person town halls with constituents. Hudson chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, the federal-level campaign arm of the House GOP caucus. According to reports in the New York Times, the Washington Post, […]
There’s both “risk and opportunity” for North Carolina’s ports in a new alignment of some of the world’s major shipping firms, N.C. Ports Executive Director Brian Clark says. In February, Danish shipping giant Maersk paired up with Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd to create what the two are calling the Gemini Cooperation. Maersk formerly allied with Switzerland’s MSC, […]
Legislators can help the Hurricane Helene recovery effort by cutting some of the red tape that surrounds heirship properties and placing additional time limits on local land-use regulatory approvals, one of Gov. Josh Stein’s aides says. On the heirship issue, the state needs to make changes so it can expedite repairs or rebuilds and “not […]
Ari Hawkins, Doug Palmer & Daniel Desrochers/Politico President Donald Trump, in an abrupt about-face, announced Thursday he will delay 25 percent tariffs on a significant portion of Mexican and Canadian goods until next month. The carve-out applies to autos and all other goods from the two countries that comply with the duty-free terms of the […]
Ellen Knickmeyer & Michael Kunzelman/The Associated Press A federal judge on Thursday gave the Trump administration until Monday to pay nearly $2 billion owed to partners of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department, thawing the administration’s six-week funding freeze on all foreign assistance. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled in favor […]
Destinee Patterson/WRAL News The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Board has denied Saint Augustine’s University’s appeal to fully regain its accreditation. The school has been on probation since December. Issues with financial management and lack of oversight at the school put the its accreditation in jeopardy. SAU said they addressed […]
Will Michaels/WUNC Radio Treasurer Folwell and Treasurer-elect Briner attend an Investment Advisory Committee meeting on Nov. 20. The N.C. Treasurer’s office is crafting a proposal to overhaul the way his office controls investments in the state pension plan. North Carolina’s pension plan for state employees is nearly 90% funded, which is well above the national […]
