Ferrel Guillory/Education NC As Katherine Joyce prepares to retire after two decades of advocacy on behalf of public school administrators, she recalls how a teacher in a Surry County elementary school gave her a nudge of encouragement that shaped her career. “My fifth grade teacher pulled me aside and said to me, ‘You have a […]
Will Doran/WRAL News Votes for Margot Dupre won’t be counted in the 2026 Republican Party primary election for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat, state elections officials ruled Wednesday. Dupre had been one of seven Republicans seeking to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis. The North Carolina State Board of Elections found that Dupre failed […]
Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily After nearly eight years of design revisions, funding pauses, and updated traffic modeling, state transportation officials have finalized the recommended plan to overhaul the interchange at N. College Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Presented at a Jan. 29 public meeting at UNCW by North Carolina Department of Transportation staff, […]
The High Point Enterprise The parent companies of Kickback Jack’s restaurants must pay more than $1.1 million to settle a sex-based hiring discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission in U.S. District Court in Greensboro. Battleground Restaurants Inc. and Battleground Restaurant Group Inc., two North Carolina-based corporations doing business as Kickback Jack’s restaurants, […]
Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro The 110-mile Haw River helps provide drinking water to more than 300,000 people, flowing through eight counties including Orange, Chatham, Alamance, and Durham. In February, the nonprofit working to protect is hosting several opportunities to hear an update on the watershed’s health and the group’s ongoing policy efforts. On Jan. 15, a […]
Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says even as snow from last weekend’s storm begins to melt, his office has received a flurry of calls from business owners and lifetime Outer Banks residents upset to see more homes falling into the Atlantic Ocean. The powerful storm, packing winds of 60 mph, brought […]
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, […]
Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News Thousands of immigrants in North Carolina can no longer get food stamps under new federal rules that took effect Sunday under a provision in President Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spend legislation that was passed this summer. The law amends the federal Food and Nutrition Act to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility for […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Sexual abuse accusations have grown at the UNC System’s largest institution, all tied to the athletics department and former sports medicine director Robert Murphy Jr. Plaintiffs include two by name and 29 others known as John Doe in the filing at Wake County Superior Court. Defendants for the accusations between 2010 […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio After Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was fatally stabbed on the Charlotte light rail on Aug. 22, 2025., mourners created a memorial for her at the East West light rail station. The federal government released an audit Monday that said the Charlotte Area Transit System’s safety plan has 18 areas of […]
Matthew Sockol/WNCN News A professor at Duke University is among those mentioned in the files connected to Jeffrey Epstein. More than 3 million pages of the Epstein files were released by the United States Department of Justice last Friday, Jan. 30. The files offer insight into the activities of Epstein, a financier who was charged […]
Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog An 88-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery at Mission Hospital died after going 13 hours without receiving a needed blood transfusion. Another patient’s heart stopped for 15 minutes leading to brain damage after staff didn’t respond to an urgent request for heart monitoring. Short-staffed night shift nurses falsely documented that a 14-year-old […]
Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView A longtime cheer coach and athletics administrator sued Fayetteville State University, alleging she was fired based on a botched investigation of false complaints from disgruntled former cheerleaders. The federal lawsuit, filed December 23 by LaWanda Miller, also alleged that FSU reneged on its agreement to scrub her personnel record as part of […]
Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News During Isabella Avila’s freshman year at Union Pines High School in rural Moore County, a member of the senior class died in a car accident. Then, during her sophomore year, a freshman was killed when the vehicle he was driving crashed into a house, she said. Media reports at the time […]
Ferrel Guillory/Education NC As Katherine Joyce prepares to retire after two decades of advocacy on behalf of public school administrators, she recalls how a teacher in a Surry County elementary school gave her a nudge of encouragement that shaped her career. “My fifth grade teacher pulled me aside and said to me, ‘You have a […]
