Ryan Kilgallen/The (Duke) Chronicle International students at Duke are facing new challenges this year as visa delays and denials rippled through undergraduate and graduate programs, due to restrictive policies implemented by the Trump administration. The fallout has already reshaped the start of the semester. Some graduate students attended their first week of classes online, while […]
Kaitlyn Dang/WRAL News Wake County and the town of Zebulon are looking for a new operator for Five County Stadium. And a familiar name is in the running. Public documents provided ahead of Tuesday night’s Wake County’s Board of Commissioners meeting proposes Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) as the new lessee and operator of the Zebulon-based […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Some City Council members are concerned that it may be difficult for transit riders to serve on a new transit authority board. Congress has cut federal funding for public media — an $800,000 loss for WFAE. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and […]
Michelle Crouch/Charlotte Ledger & NC Health News When city of Charlotte workers get sick, they don’t have to wait weeks for a primary care appointment or shell out a co-pay for an urgent care visit. Instead, they can often be seen on the same day, at no charge, at one of six local clinics run […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press In late August, the Department of Homeland Security gave the North Carolina State Board of Elections six days to decide whether to take an invitation-only, “exciting opportunity” to root out noncitizens from its voter roll. If the elections board took the deal, it would hand over some or all of its […]
Fabio Cupolo Carrara/La Voce di New York U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday his department has opened talks with leading universities, including Harvard, on agreements that would give the federal government rights to patents from research funded with taxpayer money. “We have given tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars to universities for […]
Morgan Casey/CityView Cumberland County will spend $250,000 in unused pandemic-era funds to help residents experiencing homelessness. The money will fund a pilot of the Cumberland County Community Development Department’s Homeless Prevention and Stabilization Voucher Program, which the board of commissioners approved on Aug. 25. The program will pay up to three months of rent and […]
A quartet of would-be federal judges who would serve in North Carolina now awaits U.S. Senate confirmation. The group’s nominations by President Trump came at the recommendation of North Carolina U.S. Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd. The nominees for two vacant Western District of North Carolina seats are Susan Rodriguez and Matt Orso. For […]
N.C. Supreme Court justices have put Apex’s government on notice that it can expect a big penalty for having illegally condemned a sewer easement and installing a pipe under the victim’s property. “Securing the line and paying what it wanted to pay in 2015 cannot be a meaningful remedy for a constitutional violation,” Justice Allison […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Dozens of North Carolina communities are in limbo after FEMA canceled more than $200 million worth of grants for flood-mitigation projects earlier this year in the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Grant program, also known as BRIC. For Forest City in Rutherford County, the now defunct grant program was meant to […]
Jane Porter/IndyWeek A dozen black cows graze by the side of Shearon Harris Road, on 189 acres just south of Old U.S. Highway 1 in New Hill, a rural, unincorporated town in western Wake County. Some rustic-looking farmhouse structures sit further back on the property, framed by gently sloping hills. The Western Wake sewage treatment […]
Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County has turned to a rarely used method to speed up the FEMA buyout process — hiring a consulting group to weed through the paperwork. And ironically, Haywood County can get reimbursed from none other than FEMA for the cost of hiring someone to help with FEMA’s own red tape. […]
Evey Weisblat/CityView An independent evaluation of Fayetteville’s use of the automated gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter will test some Fayetteville City Council members’ firm faith in the controversial program. The study found that, at most, 24% of ShotSpotter alerts, when not in conjunction with a 911 call, could be linked to confirmed gunfire. While ShotSpotter did […]
Arthur Allen/KFF Health News Don’t get Nathan Jones started on xylitol, the active ingredient in his chewing gum, nasal spray, and other products. He’ll talk your ear off about its wondrous powers against tooth decay, as well as its potential to fight covid, heart disease, Alzheimer’s — you name it. For now, Jones, the founder […]
Brian Murphy/WRAL News Steve Newmark grew up in Chapel Hill surrounded by North Carolina athletics leaders. He was close with the family of UNC-Chapel Hill’s former athletics director, Dick Baddour. His parents were friends with legendary Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith. Smith’s trusted assistant coach, Bill Guthridge, lived a neighborhood over. Newmark worked for about […]
