Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro In the current academic year, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ total enrollment of roughly 10,700 students is its lowest in two decades. At that time, the district had three fewer schools – with Carrboro High, Morris Grove Elementary and Northside Elementary schools not having opened yet. Now, the district’s leadership is considering closing […]
Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Following his first four years as Macon County’s sheriff, Brent Holbrooks is facing a primary challenge as he seeks a second term. Following former Sheriff Robbie Holland’s announcement that he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2022, Holbrooks emerged from a crowded Republican primary field that included multiple candidates who worked in high-level […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Ocean Isle Beach hopes to pump tens of thousands of cubic yards of sand onto the beach at the easternmost tip of the island by this spring as an erosion stopgap. The Brunswick County town has asked the Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District for authorization to have up to 70,000 […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio More than 3,400 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County educators have signed a petition demanding an end to staffing cuts, and more. An hour before the school board meeting, teachers, staff and students rallied on the front lawn of the district’s education building. They chanted “no more cuts,” and “a seat at the table.” They also […]
The General Assembly’s budget impasse has left NCInnovation in limbo, at least when it comes to handling the $500 million endowment provided by legislators in 2023. Directors of the Durham-based nonprofit agreed Wednesday to hold off until April on deciding whether to give investment managers at Wells Fargo the green light to start investing in […]
Gov. Josh Stein has denounced comments from a state Democratic Party activist who in social-media postings equated Zionism to Nazism. “Antisemitic comments and conspiracy theories have no place anywhere, including in the N.C. Democratic Party,” Stein said. “We must fight against antisemitism and all other forms of hate whenever and wherever we see them. “We […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press The Lumbee Tribe, or “People of the Dark Water,” as they’re sometimes called in reference to the murky waters of the Lumber River, have embraced a new nickname. They are “number 575” — the 575th American Indian tribe, and the second in North Carolina, to be fully recognized by the federal […]
Richard Stradling/The Raleigh News & Observer The legal battle over the stone quarry next to William B. Umstead State Park is far from over. A Wake County judge put the quarry’s future in doubt when he ruled in December that the state mining permit expires in 2031. It appeared that ruling might stand when the […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Residential electricity prices in and around Fayetteville would rise about 13.45% over the next two years under price increases the Fayetteville Public Works Commission is considering. The increase would be split, with a 6.5% boost as of May 1 of this year. In May 2027, the price would rise 6.5% above the first […]
Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News A Wake County school board committee discussed hundreds of millions of dollars in upcoming facility needs focused mostly on the district’s current schools, as Wake also plans to get rid of nearly 100 trailers hosting classrooms across the county. Wake County has more than 600 trailers housing classrooms for about one in […]
Brian Murphy/WRAL News The NBA’s Trail Blazers have been a fixture in Portland for more than 55 years. But with an aging arena in need of repair and Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon’s purchase of the team likely to be approved this spring, some in Oregon are worried the franchise could be on the move. […]
Peter H. Lewis/Asheville Watchdog The Dogwood Health Trust — the foundation responsible for enforcing HCA Healthcare’s compliance with the terms of its 2019 purchase of nonprofit Mission Health — has accelerated its oversight schedule in the wake of Mission Hospital’s latest violations of federal safety standards. In a statement to Asheville Watchdog far in advance […]
Lauren Rhodes/WUNC News Eric Andrews remembers hearing “rumblings” that something was changing in Chatham County around 15 years ago. That’s when the Pittsboro-based real estate broker at Realty World Carolina Properties said landowners began to come into his office with offers for their tracts of land. Once, he said he remembers a gentleman walking into […]
WECT The president of a metal fabrication and manufacturing company pleaded guilty on Thursday, Feb. 5, to charges involving taking $8.5 million in rigged procurements. Thomas C. Rollins of Wilmington was involved in a conspiracy to rig bids for maintenance, repair, and operations contracts affecting United States military installations. Court documents state that Rollins conspired […]
James Farrell/WFAE Radio Cabarrus County Schools is implementing a temporary enrollment cap at W. R. Odell Primary School and W.R. Odell Elementary School. The enrollment cap will start April 1 for new students in grades 1 through 5 enrolling for the 2026-27 school year, and it will remain in place until a new elementary school […]
