Dedrick Russell/WBTV North Carolina Rep. Carla Cunningham, a Democrat, has represented District 106 in Mecklenburg County since 2013 — but she will have a Democratic challenger in 2026. Cunningham has recently made headlines for partnering with Republicans to override a bill that North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein vetoed. Cunningham also made remarks on the House […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Black Mountain volunteer firefighter David Billstrom hails the fire chief on a handheld radio. “401 from 494 on VHF,” Billstrom said into the radio. It clicks as he releases the push-to-talk button. The number 401 is the fire chief’s callsign. He’s at Fire Station 4, so the callsigns are start with 4, […]
Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio When Darlene Kurkendall closes her eyes, she imagines the walls of her house falling away. She sees the people in her community — friends, neighbors, family — swept out of sight by a horrendous heap of moving earth. Her household only just survived the landslides that decimated her small, mountain-home […]
Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice As the Dare Community Housing Task Force (DCHTF) moves toward creating a non-profit housing organization by the end of the year, some details about the proposed Dare Housing Foundation were outlined in a presentation by DCHTF Chair Donna Creef at its Sept. 23 meeting. The presentation can be found on the […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online An overwhelming majority of litter captured over the course of three years by in-stream traps set up in watersheds throughout the state was plastic waste, according to a recently published study. About 96% of litter North Carolina waterkeeper organizations and their volunteers removed from trash traps between June 2021 and November […]
Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times A cloud enshrouds the operation as field workers pull bucket after bucket of sweet potatoes out of the dusty ground just off Webb Lake Road in Wilson County. “It is just extremely dry. We need rain,” Diane Vick of Vick Family Farms said while truckloads of potato bins were filled […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The UNCW Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution in support of a pedestrian bridge across S. College Road for North Carolina State Department of Transportation consideration. “UNC Wilmington has an opportunity to advance a long-discussed pedestrian bridge project across South College Road adjacent to campus,” the resolution states. “This crossing […]
A fair fraction of the political set is likely to focus its attention on a Monday morning Congressional hearing set up to look at “will examine violent crime in Charlotte … and the surrounding areas.” The 10 a.m. hearing will occur at the federal courthouse on West Trade Street and facilitate an investigation by the […]
Duke University and Duke Health are getting battered from all sides these days, politically speaking. My Business North Carolina colleague Chris Burritt reported recently on the impasse between Duke Health and Aetna, the CVS Health subsidiary that by some reckonings is the country’s fifth-larger health insurer by market share. Duke Health and Aetna are currently […]
Kyle Ingram/The (Raleigh) News & Observer The former director of the North Carolina Republican Party has a new role: election oversight for the state auditor’s office. Dallas Woodhouse, who led the state GOP from 2015 to 2019, will serve as the election liaison in Auditor Dave Boliek’s office. The newly created position will make Woodhouse […]
Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times High Point University under the leadership of President Nido Qubein has been growing like kudzu, spreading across the city and drawing attention far outside of North Carolina’s borders. The latest sign of the university’s momentum is the announcement that the university has secured nearly $200 million in philanthropic gifts from families, […]
ProPublica & The Assembly Slogging through a thick slop of mud and rock, Brian Hill passed the roof that Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters had just ripped off someone’s barn and dumped into his yard. Then he peered into the unrecognizable chaos inside what had been his family’s dream home. The century-old white farmhouse, surrounded by the […]
Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald A former Harnett County commissioner said he plans to run for the Republican nomination for state Senate in District 12, which includes Harnett and Lee counties and small part of Sampson County east of Dunn. Timothy McNeill, 68, told the Sanford Herald that it’s time for fresh blood, noting that […]
Ronny Reyes/New York Post The madman who “targeted” a crowded dockside restaurant in a “highly premeditated” mass shooting in North Carolina once identified himself as a wounded Iraq veteran and filed a slew of conspiracy-laden lawsuits earlier this year, according to authorities and records. Nigel Edge — who changed his name from Sean DeBevoise in […]
Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio A judge is considering Duke Energy’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by the town of Carrboro. The town filed suit last December, claiming the utility giant engaged in a public deception campaign for decades to dismiss concerns around climate change, all while allegedly knowing how burning fossil fuels would […]
