Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC At the start of the school year, the U.S. Department of Justice said that it won’t defend Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) from a recent lawsuit filed by the State of Tennessee and the group Students for Fair Admissions. The suit says HSIs — which must, among other requirements, enroll at least 25% […]
Kani’ya Davis/WUNC Radio Food insecurity is becoming an increasing issue for some North Carolina federal workers. Since they aren’t receiving paychecks amid the ongoing government shutdown, many have turned to community resources as a means to feed their families. Jason Kanawati Stephany, the vice president of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC, said […]
Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat The Boone Town Council pushed back against a potential housing project located on Beverly Heights Avenue during an informal meeting with developers. The developers, Landmark Properties, presented the concept featuring 160 units, including multiple one, three and four-bedroom apartments. The project would include a parking garage and multiple one- to three-story […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Faced with a decision between placing a hiring freeze on an open police officer position or dipping into the town’s fund balance to make up an expected budget shortfall, Maggie Valley aldermen opted to do neither. Instead, at a town board meeting held earlier this week, the board chose to keep […]
David Hodges & Naomi Kowles/WBTV Law enforcement officials raided three Charlotte properties Thursday morning as part of an FBI investigation into health care fraud. A civil forfeiture complaint filed by the FBI in federal court on Thursday, Oct. 16 shows agents are investigating prominent community activist Cedric Dean and his company for health care fraud. […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A state grant approved 3 1/2 years ago to facilitate an economic development project in an underserved part of High Point was not used and is no longer available. The North Carolina Department of Commerce in April 2022 authorized a $300,000 building reuse grant for a company called ChenMed to […]
General Assembly leaders have rolled out their proposed Congressional redistricting, which is designed to make the First District seat in northeast North Carolina more favorable to a Republican candidate. The map change would affect 11 counties and also change the Third District, whose incumbent is Greenville Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy. The First’s incumbent is […]
The Trump administration’s rollback of federal spending on science and medical studies has affected many U.S. research institutions, but the impact on Durham-based Research Triangle Institute “is in a category of its own,” according to a new study. In the administration’s first seven months, RTI received notice that 57 research grants and 52 contracts were […]
A state Court of Appeals panel has overturned a lower-court ruling that’d declared North Carolina’s ban on firearms possession by a felon unconstitutional as prosecutors had deployed it against a man in Forsyth County. Along with upholding the law in general, Judge John Arrowood and his colleagues rejected a 2024 state Supreme Court candidate’s finding […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio For the third year in a row, North Carolina’s Promise initiative is facing a multimillion-dollar deficit amid significant enrollment gains across its four member institutions. Under the program, in-state students at four UNC System schools pay only $500 per semester for tuition and out-of-state students $2,500. Since launching in 2018, the initiative […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press As the federal government crept into its third week of shutdown Wednesday, deadlines for when some essential services that affect North Carolina residents will run out of funding are quickly nearing or have already passed. Food and nutrition programs. Federal court operations. Disaster relief funds. All of these will be put […]
Anne Blythe/CityView When Republican lawmakers asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider a landmark ruling in the Leandro case in 2023, it took the court’s new Republican majority only 30 days to grant the unusual request. It was the latest in a 30-year legal battle over the right to a “sound, basic education” for North […]
David Purtell/Triangle Business Journal Gregory Poole Equipment Co. plans to move its headquarters out of Raleigh. But it’s not going far. The company founded in 1951 is relocating its headquarters to a nearly 130-acre property in Garner that the firm acquired earlier this year for more than $36 million. Gregory Poole, the Eastern North Carolina […]
David Ford/WFDD Radio Governor Josh Stein joined Guilford Technical Community College Wednesday for the groundbreaking of its new $34.6 million Cameron training center. The move comes as the region prepares for the arrival of several aviation companies at nearby Piedmont Triad International Airport. The new 70,000-square-foot building will expand the college’s current facilities and eventually […]
Collin Binkley/The Associated Press For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price? Public confidence in higher education has plummeted in recent […]
