It turns out that Duke Energy did set a power-load record after all during the Carolinas’ recent run of bad weather. On Jan. 27, it saw an hourly peak of 37.308 gigawatts, about a tenth of a percent higher than the old record that had stood for a year. Duke officials had previously said their […]
With one prominent exception, Monday’s House oversight hearing into Charlotte’s safety situation turned into a bit of a love fest. Appearances from Mecklenburg County DA Spencer Merriweather, Mayor Vi Lyles, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Estella Patterson and City Manager Marcus Jones came and went with barely a word of criticism. “I think the city is doing […]
Senate leader Phil Berger’s fundraising haul for the 2025-26 election cycle has topped $2.4 million, far exceeding the total reported by his rival for the District 26 GOP nomination. The longtime Rockingham County legislator’s campaign banked another $684,268 during the second half of 2025, according to its report to the State Board of Elections. Just […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Students at three North Carolina universities who had gone to court to get early voting sites on their campuses will likely not have any during this primary election, after a federal district court judge ruled against them on Sunday. The College Democrats of North Carolina and several students from Western Carolina […]
Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Three months after an immigration enforcement crackdown in Charlotte left much of the city shaken, it’s still difficult to get clear answers about what federal law enforcement agents did. That includes who was arrested, where people were taken and why. Last November, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents carried out an immigration […]
Ella Moore/The Duke Chronicle On Friday evening, around 40 demonstrators from Duke’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the student-run Duke Sunrise Movement, the Union of Southern Service Workers and seven other advocacy organizations gathered on East Campus to protest the University’s cost-cutting measures and demand Duke become a “Fourth Amendment Campus.” The […]
Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News Inside a lab at North Carolina State University, large metal tanks hum as microorganisms grow inside a carefully controlled environment. It looks a bit like brewing beer — but instead of alcohol, these microbes can be used to make medicines like insulin, injectable cancer drugs and newer treatments such as GLP-1 medications. […]
Jay Price/WUNC News Department of Veterans Affairs nurses demonstrate outside the Durham, N.C. VA Medical Center in April 2025 to protest proposed staffing cuts. According to Senate Democrats, the VA lost tens of thousands of workers in the past year, many from health care jobs. Leaders at the Department of Veterans Affairs are planning the […]
Trey Nemec/CityView Ammie McRae Jenkins, the first Black student to attend High Point University and an activist who dedicated much of her life to preserving land owned by Black families in the North Carolina Sandhills, died on October 25. She was 84. “She was a genius,” Larry Dobbins, a member of the Sandhills Family Heritage […]
Ben Bokun/WNCN News Many local restaurants and stores in Durham closed their doors over the past couple of weeks due to dangerous winter conditions, losing out on potential sales. Lakewood Social is just one of those eateries impacted by the recent snow and ice. The owner, Joel Schroeter, told CBS 17 winter months are already […]
Jason Stoogenke/WSOC News Former Charlotte City Councilwoman Tiawana Brown pleaded guilty to a federal charge Monday for lying to receive COVID-19 relief loans during the pandemic. Brown admitted to fraudulently obtaining more than $40,000 in government funds. Prosecutors also say she spent at least some of the money on personal expenses, including roughly $15,000 on […]
Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press In the days following the 2004 Hendrick Motorsports plane crash that killed all 10 people aboard, Bill France Jr. and Mike Helton showed up at Rick Hendrick’s front door in Charlotte, North Carolina. France, terminally ill at the time, was the chairman of NASCAR, the stock car racing series his iron-fisted […]
David Ford/WFDD News Greensboro has a new resident: a giant robot and its winged companion. It’s the latest public artwork to be unveiled in the Gate City. The playful stainless steel sculpture “May-Bee and the Bot (In the Uncanny Valley)” is 28 feet tall, and glistens in the sun. Bot is kneeling, waving to passersby […]
Luke Tucker/WBTV News A major banking company plans to lay off more than 100 employees from an office in North Carolina. Wells Fargo sent a notice to local and state leaders, in which it confirmed that it plans to permanently lay off 112 workers from its office on Corporate Center Drive in Raleigh. The notice […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Nobody likes a tax increase, but this March, four county boards of commissioners are trying to sell one to voters. County commissioners in Gates, Granville, Hyde and Wayne counties voted to put a quarter-percent sales tax increase on the primary election ballot. If a majority of voters approve these ballot referendums, […]
