Claudia Rivera Cotto/Enlace Latino NC & NC Health News At L. Gilbert Carroll Middle School in Robeson County, Principal Zach Jones watches the lunch line carefully, ensuring every student gets a tray. Many arrive hungry; breakfast and lunch at school may be the only meals they can count on. “Every morning, every student comes through […]
Jesse Deal/The Stanly News & Press On Monday night, the Stanly County Board of Education and the Stanly County Board of Commissioners met in Albemarle for a special-called joint session to discuss a grant application that could fund major facility improvement projects. The meeting focused on Stanly County Schools’ plan to pursue a Needs-Based Public […]
Henry Taylor/WCHL Chapelboro UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and Board of Trustees Chair Malcolm K. Turner spoke with members of the media following the university’s BOT meeting at the Carolina Inn on Thursday, Sep. 25. They answered questions on a number of issues facing the university, including performance-based funding, Carolina football’s performance, campus security, and more. […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView The owner of the construction company that abandoned several city construction projects in Fayetteville made a $1,000 donation to Mayor Mitch Colvin in August 2021, state election records show. City Council Member Mario Benavente, who is one of nine candidates attempting to unseat Colvin in this year’s mayoral election, brought up the donation […]
Gov. Josh Stein, a Chapel Hill native, ironically may have the last word on whether the town loses its right to regulate UNC Chapel Hill’s land-use moves. House members completed action earlier this week on House Bill 926, sending this year’s regulatory reform package to the governor for his signature or veto. Stein can also […]
Officials in Charlotte have rolled out a new financial incentive to convince homeowners not just to add a granny flat to their property, but to rent it to a tenant who makes less than the area’s median income. The Queen City ADU Program is offering them a forgivable, interest-free loan of up to $80,000 that […]
A portion of the legislature’s latest mini-budget could give Apple more time to deliver on the promises it made in 2021 to obtain the state’s promise of a $845.8 million incentive grant. The provision in House Bill 358 applies to so-called “transformative projects” and would allow Apple to ask and the state’s Economic Investment Committee […]
The House government-efficiency committee’s first hearing probed briefly into a new, statewide fuel-delivery contract that will pay out an estimated $164 million over three years. At the end, it identified “possibly a failure in communication” that led to the disqualification of a third of the vendors who’d voiced interest in getting a piece of the […]
Rachel Crumpler & Taylor Knopf/NC Health News In early September, video of a man stabbing 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on a light rail car in Charlotte shocked the country. People from across the political spectrum demanded answers: How does a horrific, unprovoked attack occur between two strangers? What needs to change so […]
Jay Price/WUNC Radio Major changes are coming for the North Carolina National Guard. But so far nothing related to the Trump Administration’s controversial use of guard troops in Democrat-led cities. As part of an ongoing Army-wide transformation, the state guard’s largest unit, the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, will be remade as a lighter, faster-moving […]
Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press On a mild late-summer afternoon in September, 86-year-old Tom Westall watered the flowers newly planted in the median on Locust Street in downtown Spruce Pine in Mitchell County. “I love watching things grow,” said Westall, a lifelong Spruce Pine resident whose family operated Westall’s Food Market nearby. Nearly a year after […]
Laura Hackett/WFAE Radio Amy Slusher, a server at Taco Billy, says the trauma from Hurricane Helene has rewired her nervous system. The sensation feels like a “very thin veil” of an “alternate reality,” she said. “What it used to be and what it is now are so very intertwined.” She’s worked as a server for […]
Allen G. Breed & Brittany Peterson/The Associated Press Bracing himself against the current in waist-deep water, Clancy Loorham wrestles a broken length of PVC pipe from the rocky bottom of the French Broad River and peers inside. “I got a catfish in the pipe,” the 27-year-old with wispy beard and mustache shouted to fellow cleanup […]
Carly Haynes, WRAL News WakeMed is warning patients on Wednesday that those with UnitedHealthcare as their insurance provider could lose coverage at the hospital if the two sides do not reach a contract agreement. The health care provider signed a contract with the insurance provider to cover patients under UnitedHealthcare in 2022. The contract is […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily After two weeks of waiting to finalize the vote and a night full of public disagreement, the Wilmington City Council moved forward with an anti-camping ordinance though councilmembers’ changes from the last meeting prompted the ordinance’s implementation to again be delayed another week. However, the council did agree to start up […]
