Paul Garber/WFDD Radio The North Carolina State Board of Elections has forwarded information from an investigation involving Rockingham Sheriff Sam Page to the State Bureau of Investigation. A spokesman for the State Board of Elections says the agency conducted interviews with current and former Rockingham County Board of Elections officials concerning missing campaign financial disclosure […]
Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily The planned transition of the federally funded NCWorks Career Center to Cape Fear Community College has collapsed just over one month after the contract was awarded. A problem with the college’s background check policy led to the partnership dissolution and has left NCWorks without a place to operate physically. NCWorks is […]
Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio On a dusty, warm day last October, nearly a month after Hurricane Helene tore across the southeastern United States, Donald Trump stood behind a podium in Swannanoa, North Carolina, to pledge funding and support to survivors of the disaster. “In the wake of this horrible storm, many Americans in this […]
Pat Welter & Brian Murphy/WRAL News A University of North Carolina assistant football coach was suspended and athletes in all ticketed sports, including football and men’s basketball, were sent a text message Tuesday to remind them that selling their complimentary tickets to games could impact their eligibility and violate NCAA rules. WRAL reported Monday that, […]
Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer More than a month after the state cracked down on the flood debris landfill in Canton, mulch piles that combusted and began burning in June are still smoldering, and pollution is still running into the Pigeon River. Neighbors living around the landfill say conditions have improved slightly, but their lives are […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise An effort that started in 2017 to redevelop a downtown block has been stalled for years. Downtown High Point has been unable to add to the four properties it acquired in the 700 block of N. Main Street for a possible residential or mixed-use project. This has thwarted the city-funded […]
As long as coach Bill Belichick’s Tar Heels football team is beating only the likes of UNC Charlotte, there’s going to be a lot of talk about the cost of college athletics in this state. But high school sports cost money too, and a new report to legislators from the Department of Public Instruction says […]
Peace has broken out between State Treasurer Brad Briner’s office and CVS Caremark. On Tuesday, the treasurer’s office announced the successful conclusion to talks with the pharmacy benefits manager. They resulted in an agreement, officials said, that secures “hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of the members of the State Health Plan.” Treasurer Brad Briner […]
It’s fair to say the leaders of the General Assembly pride themselves on fostering school choice across North Carolina, via the proliferation of charter schools and the Opportunity Scholarship private-school voucher program. But there’s at least one group out there that, while favoring “school choice,” says North Carolina’s work in the arena grades not only […]
Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog The competition for Buncombe County hospital expansion is intensifying as UNC Health and UNC Health Pardee will join AdventHealth, Mission Health and Novant Health in a quest for 129 beds under the state’s Certificate of Need process. UNC Health and UNC Health Pardee will seek to build a 129-bed hospital in […]
Pat Welter/WRAL News Bill Belichick sold his UNC football program as the “33rd NFL team.” Through five games as a college football coach, the Tar Heels rank 128th in points per game out of the 136 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams. Pick a stat right now, it’s not good. A 38-10 loss […]
James Farrell/WFAE Radio As North Carolina faces challenges in recruiting and retaining teachers, a recent statewide survey of school districts shows the number of unfilled teaching jobs has dropped significantly this school year. But the report’s authors say the factors behind that decline are complicated. The North Carolina School Superintendents’ Association’s annual survey of schools […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio According to the complaint filed Monday, former Wake Forest University athletic trainer Bridget Sullivan and school officials mutually agreed to part ways, and was not fired. A former Wake Forest University athletic trainer is suing North Carolina Rep. Pat Harrigan for falsely claiming she was fired for her comments about Charlie Kirk. […]
Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice Following a lengthy discussion at their Oct. 6 meeting, the Dare County Commissioners voted 6-1 to approve a request for a total of $400,000 in startup funding for the first two years of the Dare Housing Foundation. The Dare Housing Foundation is the organization to be formed when the Dare Community […]
Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/Education NC The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) presented new statewide literacy data to the State Board of Education during its meeting on Wednesday. Seventy percent of first graders were proficient at or above the benchmark for the DIBELS 8 (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills 8th Edition) assessment at the end of […]
