Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Following the denial of two special use permit applications, an affiliate of Greensboro-based developer The Carroll Companies is suing New Hanover County and the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners. The lawsuit, filed in New Hanover Superior Court earlier this month, centers around the board’s Sept. 2 denial of special use permits for […]
Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News As the sun set behind the Saunook fire station in west Haywood County, members of the community gathered in the bay that would normally house the fire trucks and anxiously took their seats. They were told the news was good, they just didn’t know how good. In front of the department’s […]
Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Piedmont Triad International Airport saw a solid rise in passenger traffic last month, according to the latest numbers presented at the Tuesday, Oct. 28 Airport Authority Board meeting. That’s the board that oversees and ultimately calls the shots at the airport. Passengers in and out of PTI were up 7 percent […]
Liz Bell/Education NC Henrietta Zalkind, executive director of the Down East Partnership for Children, speaks on the importance of local mobilization for child care policy change. Liz Bell/EdNC There is not enough child care to meet families’ needs. The main reason, experts say, is that child care teachers cannot afford to stay in the profession. […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A housing development might be coming to Clyde in the near future, creating an opportunity for the town to regain the tax base it lost as a result of flooding during Tropical Storms Fred and Helene. The developer is a national firm called Forestar, a subsidiary of the home-building behemoth D.R. […]
Kani’ya Davis/WUNC Radio The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute received a more than $292,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to support farm communities impacted by Helene. The institute’s three partner universities, N.C. State University, East Carolina University and N.C. A&T State University, will use the grant to expand mental health services at the Farm and Ranch […]
Sarayu Thondapu/The Daily Tar Heel Last month, former UNC men’s basketball captain Marcus Ginyard ’10 was appointed director of special projects, a new role supporting both the University’s Public Affairs and Finance and Operations offices. Ginyard will also work closely with the chancellor and coordinate projects with the Board of Trustees. “We created the Director […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers are once again the champions of baseball, by virtue of defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in the seventh and final game of this year’s World Series. This came despite the efforts of East Carolina University product Trey Yesavage, who pitched an inning and a third in relief during Friday night’s […]
North Carolina U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is circulating a “discussion draft” of a bill that would bar large banks and credit unions from discriminating against customers based on their politics or type of business. Called the “Ensuring Fair Access to Banking Act,” the draft seeks “to eliminate ‘reputational risk’ as a regulatory factor and prevent […]
Former Rep. Cecil Brockman’s time in the General Assembly has ended. From jail, the High Point Democrat turned in his resignation late Friday afternoon. He said he needed to “focus on my defense” against statutory sexual assault charges. “As a result, I am currently unable to fulfill my duty and service to my constituents in […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Following the NC Department of Health and Human Services’ unprecedented takeovers of two county departments of social services this year, the statewide association of DSS directors raised “urgent concerns” over the state’s handling of such cases. Emails and letters obtained by Carolina Public Press revealed that the North Carolina Association of […]
Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Following a discussion Thursday at a Board of Commissioners workshop on school safety and the lack of officers to cover all schools, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields recognized that his office could hypothetically take over policing duties for the district. With nearly the entire Board of Education and key administrators […]
Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog In August, when the University of North Carolina Asheville announced it was pausing a controversial plan to build a stadium-anchored development atop 45 acres of wooded campus, the school said it would appoint a commission to engage the community and evaluate ideas. Its work would continue into January “at the latest,” UNCA […]
Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News & WFAE Radio On Friday, North Carolina will be the only state in the country to no longer have a statewide collaborative focused on improving perinatal care. The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina stands to lose its entire $905,000 budget on Friday, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of […]
Benjamin Schachtman/WHQR Today, the North Carolina GOP said it had learned of an alleged cash-for-votes scheme in Wilmington. The county Democratic party denounced both any potential election fraud and the GOP’s reaction. State and local Republicans shared allegations that one voter received text messages offering cash from three Democratic candidates in the Wilmington city council […]
