Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily The projected multi-million dollar bridge replacements project in one beach town could mean motorists will endure longer waits amid heavier congestion while construction takes place. The Wrightsville Beach Bridge Replacement Committee met on Monday, Nov. 17, to discuss early findings from a traffic impact analysis. The TIA was completed by GFT […]
Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Old cars, trucks and abandoned trailers made an eyesore out of a property on Newfound Road outside Canton — but cleaning the property brought more problems. The barren patch of land tucked between Newfound Road and I-40’s exit 33 was acting as an illegal junkyard for Carolina Towing’s backlog of Helene-related […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The City Council on Monday appointed a former colleague to fill an unexpired term on High Point’s governing body. Chris Williams will take over the at-large council seat vacated by Amanda Cook, who resigned after being appointed to a vacancy in the N.C. General Assembly. Williams previously served three terms […]
Harrison Metzger/Hendersonville Lightning On June 10, 1987, a 7-foot diameter wooden pipe (flume) that carried water from the Lake Summit dam to the Tuxedo Hydro Station burst. The resulting torrent excavated 15,000 cubic yards of dirt and sent it hurdling into the Green River, shutting down the small electric generating plant for 4 1⁄2 years. […]
A prominent N.C. hemp business is on the block, in part because of new federal legislation that drastically tightens the amount of THC hemp-derived products can contain. The Rise Cos. CEO Harry Smith said the investment firm will sell or close its hemp business, Asterra Labs, by the end of the year. “We’re going to […]
As of the end of fiscal 2023-24, about 54% of a $5.4 billion chunk of money that came North Carolina’s way from the Biden administration’s pandemic-recovery stimulus bill had yet to be disbursed, Auditor Dave Boliek’s office says. Its legislatively mandated, biennial review of the State Fiscal Recovery Fund found that the Office of State […]
Dasia Williams/CityView When a viral post calling for a statewide teacher walkout began circulating earlier this month, educators across North Carolina started asking questions: Who posted this? Is it real? and Are we actually doing this? Teachers first spotted the call to action in a Wake County Facebook group, a detail reported by WRAL, which […]
David Beasley/The Center Square Okracoke Island’s contribution to tourism in North Carolina justifies the cost of state ferry service to the storied village, a political leader told The Center Square. Tourists from around the world visit Okracoke, said Hyde County Commissioner Randal Mathews, an island resident who represents Okracoke on the county board. Mathews formerly […]
James Farrell/WFAE Radio In September, Union County Public Schools celebrated becoming the highest-performing school district in North Carolina. Two months later, the district is embroiled in a bitter dispute over teacher pay — a conflict that has led to mass teacher absences, public bickering between school and county leaders, and ongoing frustration among educators who […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Is crime getting worse in Charlotte? It’s a simple question that’s trickier to answer than one might think. On the whole, no, crime rates in North Carolina’s largest city are down compared to last year. But homicides in Uptown Charlotte, the city’s central business district which includes banking headquarters, sports arenas, […]
Jay Price/WUNC Radio In an unannounced policy change, the Department of Veterans Affairs is making it harder for male veterans with breast cancer to get care and disability benefits. Critics are calling it a misguided attempt to bend science to the Trump Administration’s war on gender ideology. The change reverses a policy the VA adopted […]
Emily Thomas/Education NC Dr. J.W. Kelley had been president of McDowell Technical Community College for just two months when Hurricane Helene hit. New to the town and the role, Kelley quickly found himself leading the institution through one of the worst storms in western North Carolina’s history. While nothing could have fully prepared the rural […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily Be still their bleating hearts — ownership of miniature goats is now allowed in one New Hanover County beach town. On Nov. 12, Carolina Beach town council unanimously approved a text amendment submitted by resident Jasmine Miller to permit the ownership of domesticated miniature goats — or goats with dwarfism. The […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer What to do when you’re stuck on an iced-over interstate, facing multiple hours of gridlock traffic, and you’re towing a food truck full of seafood? If you’re Richard Gray, you pull over and start offering your food to anyone who needs it — for free. And that’s exactly what Waynesville resident […]
Watauga Democrat MountainTrue has received a $750,000 grant from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Truist Foundation Western North Carolina Recovery and Resiliency Fund to expand its regional debris cleanup and river restoration program — a historic recovery effort employing displaced workers, restoring damaged waterways, and strengthening communities across the southern Blue Ridge. This new investment […]
