Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that two men have been arrested in a string of thefts targeting Duke Energy equipment – crimes that investigators say racked up about $1 million in damage and, in one case, knocked out power for about 5,600 residents for six hours. Detectives with the […]
Daniel Kennedy/The High Point Enterprise One year after Randolph County Schools System approved a contract extension and a 2.5-percent pay raise for Superintendent Stephen Gainey, the board once again lengthened its agreement with the longtime official. Following the review of Gainey’s annual evaluation, his contract was amended for the maximum time permitted by law, through […]
Ben Crosbie/WCHL Chapelboro After a year of operating in Chapel Hill, the Crisis Assistance, Response, and Engagement (CARE) team is now expanding to include Carrboro as well. The crew is hiring another social worker and adding staff for a second mobile unit, which will also allow for longer operating hours. The CARE team, which is […]
Senate leader Phil Berger has raised 71 times as much money as his GOP primary challenger so far in in the 2025-26 election cycle, but his supporters aren’t taking it for granted that he’s got enough. Early in September, Martin Marietta CEO Ward Nye circulated a fundraising appeal to fellow Berger supporters that says the […]
House Majority Leader Jones, by the way, opened Wednesday’s hearing with another blast at former Gov. Roy Cooper, who’s now running for a U.S. Senate seat. This is not in itself new, as Jones has repeatedly faulted Cooper’s handling of housing reconstruction Down East in the wake of 2018’s Hurricane Florence. But Jones extended the […]
Legislators, Gov. Josh Stein’s aides and local leaders in western North Carolina all are asking themselves, and each other, whether the juice is worth the squeeze when it comes to federal disaster aid. The question dominated Wednesday’s latest joint House-Senate hearing on post-Helene recovery efforts in western North Carolina. Complaints dominating the morning’s discussion included […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Medicaid coverage will likely be cut next month – and state employees and teachers will continue to go without raises – after Republican legislative leaders concluded a session Tuesday without reaching a compromise on most state budget issues. Both the House and Senate passed “mini-budget” spending bills during a brief session this […]
Jack Evans, John Boyle and Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog It has been almost one year since Tropical Storm Helene blew through western North Carolina. The storm toppled trees and triggered landslides, scarring a region known worldwide for its beauty. It ripped through the essentials of modern life so many of us took for granted — roads […]
Amanda Hernández/NC Newsline When President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month threatening to withhold federal funding from states and localities that have adopted “cashless bail” policies, he escalated a national fight over how courts decide who should remain behind bars before trial. The move has already rippled into state capitols. In North Carolina, […]
WRAL News Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies opened its new, $3.2 billion bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Holly Springs on Wednesday, and the town is already experiencing impacts. “I’m more excited about what it brings for our residents of Holly Springs,” Sean Mayesfki, the mayor of Holly Springs, said. Mayesfki said new developments have popped up around the […]
Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News As on any other rainy late summer morning in Southern Appalachia, the sun rose over densely wooded, knobby green peaks cloaked in a thick downy mist. At a large, nondescript warehouse off Swannanoa River Road just outside downtown Asheville, it may have looked like any other day — workers bustling about, […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Kids in North Carolina returned to class about a month ago for the start of a new school year. Alongside test scores and graduation rates, officials will be closely monitoring another measure: chronic absenteeism. Last year, about a quarter of students in North Carolina were considered chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% […]
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 life-long Spruce Pine resident whose family operated Westall’s Food Market nearby. Nearly a year after […]
Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online A discussion about a proposal to transfer the Division of Marine Fisheries from the Department of Environmental Quality to the state agriculture department looms large on the list of priorities for a newly formed alliance created to support North Carolina’s commercial fishing industry. During the North Carolina Coastal Counties Fisheries Coalition’s […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView The Fayetteville City Council voted 8-1 on Monday to approve zoning that the Fayetteville Public Works Commission needs to build a solar farm off Ramsey Street. Neighboring residents and property owners had been trying to stop the solar farm for months. They said it would be a bad fit for the area, increase […]
