Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio When the North Carolina lottery began in 2005, the idea was that all money would go to public education. The public believed the lottery dollars would supplement money already spent on K-12 schools. But over the last two decades, critics say the lottery money has, in part, replaced money that was previously […]
Alice Scott/The Daily Tar Heel UNC is temporarily pausing all human resource actions while awaiting further guidance on how the campus will implement a new UNC System-wide personnel cap, according to a statement from UNC Media Relations. “The University anticipates more guidance from the UNC System Office this week and will share updates regarding its […]
The Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a dozen NASCAR teams to provide 11 years of financial data to the stock car series as part of an ongoing legal fight but sharply limited what they need to share. A day after hearing arguments from both sides, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell of the […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that includes multiple controversial LGBTQ policies. Democrats objected to a GOP move to add the proposals to a popular House bill, prompting a heated fight over the Senate’s rules. The original version of House Bill 805 added new consent requirements for pornographic websites, and it […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer listened to her constituents’ testimonies, adding that recent cuts at the federal level will likely result in more lives lost during future natural disasters. Nine months after Hurricane Helene, western North Carolina is bracing for another hurricane season. Residents are speaking out about the dangers of climate change-fueled […]
Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog On June 13, the University of North Carolina-Asheville confirmed a rumor that had circulated for months: It plans to build a soccer stadium on the land currently occupied by 45 acres of woods south of its main campus. The plan, developed in collaboration with the amateur soccer club Asheville City SC, calls […]
Evey Weisblat/CityView Yeadon Domes, an international manufacturer of air domes, will begin construction on its Fayetteville facility following the Fayetteville City Council’s approval on Monday of the company’s annexation and rezoning requests. The site is located on more than 14 acres off Airport Road, in the city’s prime industrial area. A portion of the land […]
Port City Daily Tim Markley, 61, died suddenly on June 21 while biking the Tour de Blueberry annual charity ride in Willard, North Carolina, according to an online obituary. WECT first reported on June 22 a cyclist died during the festival due to a medical issue, as confirmed by Burgaw Mayor Olivia Dawson. The bike […]
Stan Choe, David McHugh & Elaine Kurtenbach/The Associated Press Oil prices are dropping further, and U.S. stocks are pulling close to their all-time high Tuesday on hopes that Israel’s war with Iran will not damage the global flow of crude, even if a tentative truce seemed to fray under fire in the morning. The S&P […]
Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio With legislators nowhere close to hashing out a state budget, the North Carolina Senate voted unanimously Monday to send the House an updated version of the most recent Helene relief package. The Senate scrapped much of House Bill 1012, rewriting it to bear many similarities to the Helene provisions that were included […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Resolution plans to three pending lawsuits against the North Carolina State Board of Elections were adopted unanimously by the five-member panel Tuesday. The latest, naming the United States of America as a plaintiff and pursued by the Department of Justice, involved the Help America Vote Act, colloquially called HAVA. Executive Director […]
Elvis Menayese/WFAE Radio Several families on the brink of being unhoused gathered in uptown Charlotte on Monday, asking for more transparency about housing support intended to keep them sheltered. Some residents at the Baymont motel, in northeast Charlotte’s Sugar Creek area, have had to leave after a city-funded program ended. Others who could continue to […]
WSOC News Queens University of Charlotte will become an active NCAA Division I member on July 1, after successfully completing a three-year reclassification process, officials stated Tuesday in a news release. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors’ decision grants Queens University access to Division I membership benefits, including full NCAA post-season eligibility starting this […]
Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Wake schools Superintendent Robert Taylor plans to give an update on the district’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning Tuesday to the Wake County Board of Education. The district has struggled recently with more than 60 schools losing at least one day of school in the past two years because of malfunctioning HVAC […]
Blaire Mirmow/NC Health News On a bitter November morning in Newland, North Carolina, Ashton Johanson climbed aboard the purple dental bus parked outside High County Community Health’s medical clinic. Inside the cramped mobile unit, the floor heaters sputtered. Supplies were running low. The suction machine had been acting up for weeks. His patient in the […]
