Dan DeWitt, John Boyle & Sally Kestin/Asheville Watchdog Asheville’s Black population is disappearing faster than that of comparable cities in North Carolina, a trend that is accelerating and has transformed not only the makeup of the city but its cultural and institutional identity. In 1980, one in five Asheville residents was Black. In 2024, it […]
Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline Maggie Shama thought she and her husband Mohamed Shama had finally cleared their last hurdle. After years of navigating the complex immigration system, they were moments away from securing his legal status. At the immigration office in Durham on Oct. 9, Maggie, who has been married to Shama since 2018, was the […]
Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Like a bingo ball tumbler, the metal, barrel-shaped sorter spun around, shaking up the oysters until they fell through the appropriate holes that fit their age size. The mollusks would then be opened and examined to gauge their health. The oyster autopsies are just one of the many steps researchers and […]
Amy Zhang/The (Duke) Chronicle At its Thursday meeting, Academic Council confronted a growing sense of unease over how Duke is handling mounting federal scrutiny. Faculty questioned whether the University’s commitment to transparency has given way to self-preservation. President Vincent Price confirmed that Duke is facing five active federal investigations related to research and compliance but […]
Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A “For Sale” sign that violated town rules and loomed over a beloved statue in downtown Waynesville for weeks was finally taken down Friday afternoon. The banner had hung just behind the heads of the Old Time Music men statues on the side of the Davis Furniture building, obscuring Waynesville’s “most […]
Russ Bowen/CBS 17 News A former Cold War spy station in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains is for sale. The 192-acre site is listed for $30 million. In the 1960s, NASA built a communications hub in Rosman, N.C. that allowed the agency to photograph some of the first images of Earth as seen from space. […]
Kara Fohner/Gaston Gazette Gaston County leaders are discussing selling the Gaston County Museum of Art and History’s archives building, which contains thousands of museum historical artifacts and valuable pieces of art, according to a county commissioner. Commissioner Tom Keigher said in an interview that the county had the property appraised. “I’ve heard talk of it,” […]
Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Moore County Schools may soon find itself at an impasse. Despite unanimous support by the Board of Education in a closed session to pursue a 32-acre site just past the intersection of Vass-Carthage and Joel roads for a new Carthage Elementary School, pushback on multiple fronts has altered the calculus. […]
North Carolina’s Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed in a building-maintenance at NC State University in early 2017. Its 5-2 decision found all the court’s Republicans in agreement with Justice Phil Berger Jr., who the accident wasn’t foreseeable and therefore couldn’t sustain […]
State Sen. Norman Sanderson, R-Pamlico, faces a driving while impaired charge after being arrested Saturday in Raleigh by a State Highway Patrol trooper. The seven-term senator also faces charges of failing to obey an officer and an open-container violation, according to Wake County court records. He went free on an unsecured bond — a former […]
Estimated tax revenues from North Carolina’s sports-wagering program are down about 1.7% in the first quarter of fiscal 2025-26, compared to levels at the same point the year before. The State Lottery Commission reckons that the 18% levy on the gross wagering revenues of licensed sports-book operators will yield about $25.8 million to share with […]
Jack Evans & Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog Mission Hospital should again be put in immediate jeopardy, the worst sanction a hospital can face, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has recommended. The finding, made by NCDHHS and reported to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is a devastating blow […]
Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press The announcement of the merger between two North Carolina private colleges, Elon University and Queens University of Charlotte, both of which possess a long and storied presence in the Old North State, has sent shockwaves through the higher education community over recent weeks. As other independent colleges in the region have […]
Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio North Carolina and 22 other states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to reinstate a $7 billion program meant to help low-income and disadvantaged communities install rooftop solar power systems. The Solar for All program was created in 2022 by the Inflation Reduction Act, with states and local governments required to […]
Flynn Snyder/WRAL News Thousands across the Triangle on Saturday joined an even bigger number of millions across the nation to protest the Trump Administration in a second round of “No Kings” protests. “I want to be out for the younger generation to encourage them to fight what’s happening in the country right now,” said Wayne […]
