Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio A UNC-Chapel Hill program partnering with a dozen community colleges across the state has lost a federal grant to help train future preschool teachers to better serve students with disabilities. It’s part of the U.S. Department of Education’s crackdown on grants promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. The Frank Porter Graham Child Development […]
Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A recent political cartoon in a local paper has one Pender County commissioner feeling fearful for his life. However, the newspaper’s publisher says the commissioner is misinterpreting the image and its intent. At the Pender County Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday, Sept. 15, Commissioner Jerry Groves spoke about the Pender-Topsail […]
Sarah Nagem/Border Belt Independent Jarrod Lowery, a Republican who has represented Robeson County in the N.C. House since 2022, said he is leaving the state legislature next month to take a job with the Trump administration. Lowery told the Border Belt Independent on Saturday that Trump appointed him to a position, but he was not […]
Helen Chickering/Blue Ridge Public Radio A FEMA funding announcement this week led many to believe the iconic Lake Lure Flowering Bridge would be rebuilt — but town officials now say that’s not the case. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Tim Moore, R-14th District, issued a press release relaying a FEMA grant award that designated more than […]
Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Lake Logan has some new geographic features thanks to Helene — including an island of sediment, a widened river bed upstream and 4,000 feet of failing banks. But new funding from the state’s Department of Environmental Quality could help revitalize the lake while turning waterway debris into usable material. DEQ Secretary […]
Nancy McCleary/Sanford Herald The Lee County commissioners unanimously gave the OK on Monday for school officials to apply for a grant to partially fund the cost of building a new elementary school. If the Needs-Based Public School Capital Fund request is approved, the county would pay $14,242,470 toward the total cost estimated at $56,001,480, according […]
Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio A bucolic 342 acres between downtown Asheville and Leicester is one step closer to becoming Buncombe County’s newest park. At last night’s Buncombe County Commission meeting, staff shared that by the end of the year, it plans to finalize the purchase of Deaverview Mountain at a cost of $8.9 million. […]
Richard Holm/Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald The Scotland Neck Police Department has cut all part-time positions due to budgetary reasons, and that has raised questions about the state of the agency. According to a letter recently sent out from Chief Austin Holland, the SNPD administration made the decision to cut all part-time officer positions for the […]
U.S. Sen. Ted Budd and Gov. Josh Stein’s offices are reporting progress in getting more federal disaster-recovery aid out the door to western North Carolina. Budd’s staff is claiming credit for their boss in getting $64.3 million in aid released by FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. This followed Budd’s threat to put a […]
The NC Chamber and other business groups are opposing pending congressional moves to bolster the ability of the country’s soldiers, sailors, aviators and Marines to repair their own equipment. Both the U.S House and Senate versions of the next National Defense Authorization Act address the point. The House’s version demands that defense contractors give the […]
UNC’s Board of Governors has agreed to take money from UNC Chapel Hill and three of the system’s smallest campuses to redistribute to the rest of its institutions. The approval of the $30 million “performance funding reallocation” came Thursday over the objections of several BOG members, among them former state Rep. Art Pope. The Wake […]
Elizabeth Ouzts/Canary Media In small communities across North Carolina, data centers are already sparking conflict over land use, water use, and quality of life. Now, the debate over the facilities’ voracious need for electricity — and whether it can be met with clean sources — is heating up in the state capital of Raleigh. For […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio PBS North Carolina has begun laying off employees this week in response to the elimination of federal funding for public media. It’s unclear how many staffers at the statewide public TV network are losing their jobs, or which positions have been cut. Sources familiar with the situation said some affected employees were […]
Aaron Beard/The Associated Press Fourteen former N.C. State male athletes have filed a civil lawsuit in state court alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack’s former director of sports medicine, expanding a case that began with a federal lawsuit from a single athlete three years ago. The lawsuit filed […]
WRAL News A local attorney is charged with embezzling over $1 million from his Johnston County law firm and various clients he represented, including more than $710,000 from an older adult. Korey Kiger, 36, of Raleigh, faces multiple counts of felony embezzlement and one felony count of exploiting an older adult, according to arrest warrants. […]
