Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Delegates elected Merry Guy as chair of the 11th Congressional District Committee on Saturday, ousting two-term incumbent Michele Woodhouse in a race that pitted two party activists from Henderson County against one another. A past chair of the Henderson County GOP, Guy takes the reins as party leaders look build a strong […]
Korie Dean/The (Raleigh) News & Observer The visas of six international students at UNC-Chapel Hill have been restored after the Trump administration initially terminated them, according to the university. Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday that five students’ immigration records were restored, out of the total of six students who were impacted by the administration’s sweeping […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Ashe County public schools are going to have a full house this summer. After a mix of bad weather and severe storms closed schools there for 47 days, Superintendent Eisa Cox plans to take full advantage of a Helene learning loss summer school program. The legislature is funding the program in […]
Grace Vitalione/NC Health News North Carolinians are getting older, but there aren’t enough people getting trained to care for them. The population of people ages 65 and older in North Carolina is expected to nearly double to 2.7 million in the next couple decades. Many of those older adults will require care from doctors specializing […]
Guy Lucas/High Point Enterprise A conservative group has accused Guilford County Schools of violating the state law known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights. Moms for Liberty-Guilford chair Maria Adams issued a press release saying that educators reportedly have been directed to incorporate literature and curriculum materials from Welcoming Schools, which seeks to help elementary […]
Boom Supersonic has announced that it will test key components of the engines for its planned supersonic airliner at a site in Colorado near Denver. The company hopes to begin engine testing later this year. Its longer-term schedule still calls for it to start assembling the first of its airliners, called Overture, in its Greensboro […]
The Trump administration has signed off on North Carolina’s plan to deploy $1.4 billion in CDBG disaster recovery money to help with the cleanup from Hurricane Helene. Gov. Josh Stein announced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s OK of the plan on Friday, less than a month after his aides had submitted it. […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Six months ago, Washington Regional Medical Center in Plymouth declared bankruptcy for the second time in five years. Now, hospital leadership hopes that the facility will emerge from this latest financial hardship by late May. That’s good news to the 10,713 residents of Washington County who need the hospital to […]
Richard Craver/The (Greensboro) News & Record The Piedmont Triad International Airport campus is under consideration for another aviation advanced manufacturing project, this time involving a California aircraft company proposing a production plant with the potential for 10,000 employees. JetZero, based in Long Beach, California, is considering the Greensboro airport among several U.S. sites, most of […]
Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC State Superintendent Mo Green sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday questioning the department’s authority to require schools to not use diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in order to continue receiving federal funds. The letter follows the department’s April 3 requirement that K-12 school districts and […]
Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News A series of campaign contributions from Chemours and its affiliated political action committee is drawing criticism from residents living near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility and others impacted by PFAS contamination across North Carolina. Chemours, a spinoff of chemical giant DuPont, manufactures PFAS compounds — a class of synthetic chemicals often referred […]
Mark Plemmons/The Independent Tribune Cabarrus Superior Court Judge Steven Warren granted a temporary restraining order preventing Lamarie Austin-Stripling from taking office until a suit against Cabarrus County Commissioners can be heard. The ruling was filed Wednesday afternoon. Austin-Stripling was appointed to replace Commissioner Chair Chris Measmer, who was appointed to replace Sen. Paul Newton. Warren […]
Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning The Hendersonville City Council and City Manager John Connet say county commissioners pushed ahead to endorse a bill in the state Legislature to outlaw annexation-for-sewer even as negotiations were progressing — in the city’s point of view — to resolve the long-running conflict. In a letter it sent Wednesday to state Sen. […]
Kelly Kenoyer/WHQR For years, Black residents in Brunswick County have been left off of the public water system, forcing them to deal with lower-quality water from private wells. Now, as developments are popping up all around them, they’re standing up to demand access to county water. Barbara Clark-Hooper is a long-time resident of the Dark […]
Greg Miller/Lloyd’s List When ships confront an obstacle — a congestion-clogged port, a drought-stricken canal, a militia-harried strait — they just sail around it. US port fees on Chinese vessels, when they begin in October, are just another hindrance to circumvent. Workarounds will be a burden for container lines, but they look doable under the […]
