Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio For the first time in years, going back to the onset of the pandemic, North Carolina saw more child care programs close than open this August. “That is extremely worrisome,” said Amy Cubbage, president of the North Carolina Partnership for Children and the statewide Smart Start network. The state had a net […]
Michelle Crouch/Charlotte Ledger & NC Health News Atrium Health’s new surgical training center in Charlotte is off to a fast start. In just six weeks, IRCAD North America has brought in 932 health care providers from 14 countries for training, said Rasu Shrestha, chief innovation and commercialization officer at Advocate Health, Atrium’s parent company. That […]
Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise What was to be a routine court hearing on the bond that former state legislator Cecil Brockman needs to post to get out of jail turned boisterous Monday as Brockman repeatedly said that “lies are being told” about him. A key point argued between Brockman’s attorney, Alec Carpenter of […]
Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice Acknowledging that they’ve received numerous inquiries about the governor declaring a State of Emergency after the recent house collapses in Buxton, Dare County officials stated that such a declaration is not a viable option during the Nov. 3 Commissioners meeting. The issue of declaring a State of Emergency has increasingly surfaced […]
Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Henderson County commissioners will have to decide how to salvage the Edneyville sewer project, which was defunded last week by the state Legislature — or whether to go forward at all. An idea years in the making, the project is already under contract, thanks to a vote of commissioners at their last […]
Port City Daily UNCW’s annual tallying of crime statistics was released last week, with reports trending upward in several categories, including rape, dating violence and stalking, along with drug and liquor offenses. The report, which compiles data from 2024, shows on-campus rapes totalled 14, up two from 2023 but down two from 2022. The security […]
John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog It’s a wrestling match out there, folks. Every day. And sometimes you accidentally cut a catfish in half with a battery powered saw. More about that later. This is the situation on local waterways such as the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers post-Helene. But especially the French Broad. Last week, MountainTrue, the […]
WRAL News A North Carolina restaurant has earned a coveted Michelin Star designation. The popular guide announced its “American South” selections Monday night and while only Charlotte-based Counter earned a Michelin Star, other restaurants in the Raleigh area were honored too. Michelin Travel Guides are available in Paris, New York, London, Rome and Tokyo. The […]
Jose Sandoval/Blue Ridge Public Radio The city of Asheville is continuing to eye Hurricane Helene recovery. On Tuesday, City Council members unanimously approved 44 appointees to its new Helene recovery boards. As previously reported by BPR, Asheville followed the advice of Research Triangle Park-based consultancy Fountainworks to implement a new structure for citizen advisory boards. […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek’s office says Elizabeth City officials played “fast and loose” with procurement-card charges, mainly for food they provided to employees during an assortment of city-sponsored events. Its review of purchases by former City Manager Montré Freeman and other officials found a number of food buys that “could be seen as excessive or […]
Gov. Josh Stein’s trip to Japan last week for the annual Southeast United States/Japan conference also gave him a chance to stop in Taiwan to visit with the island’s president and various corporate leaders there, his aides say. Stein hosted a “North Carolina Business Seminar for a number of leading Taiwanese businesses,” among them Everest […]
Not quite 11 months after the getting the General Assembly’s OK for the idea, the NC Chamber has rolled out a new health-insurance option for the small businesses among its members. Carolina HealthWorks is a partnership between the Chamber and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. It capitalizes on the changes legislators make […]
Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Three Fayetteville City Council members say Mayor Mitch Colvin and his allies postponed Monday’s council meeting until Nov. 10 to prevent a politically fraught topic—contractors’ abandonment of six construction projects—from being discussed less than 24 hours before Election Day. The three council members also question whether the vote to postpone the meeting […]
Rachel Crumpler & Rose Hoban/NC Health News Jessica Bollinger, a single mother of two from McDowell County, spent Saturday poring over her family budget and trying to make the numbers work. On the third of each month, she usually receives $318 in federal food assistance to buy groceries. But this month, as the federal shutdown […]
Michaela Ratliff/WGHP News The Eastern Music Festival has filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, according to a press release. The charge comes nearly three weeks after EMF, a five-week summer music education program hosted at Guilford College in Greensboro, announced it would dissolve the organization. EMF announced the charge […]
