Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press In the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Tim Hall, a K-12 Social Studies Instructional Specialist at Vance County Schools and former president of the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies, learned in real time that he didn’t know how to teach his students about religion. “I […]
Morgan Casey/CityView After a five-week search, the Cape Fear Valley Health System Board of Trustees named Daniel Weatherly as its new chief executive officer on Wednesday. Weatherly will take charge of one of the region’s largest private, nonprofit health systems. The announcement brought a chorus of applause from trustees gathered in the administrative wing of […]
Taylor Knopf/NC Health News Every Saturday, Linda McDonough picks up her 26-year-old daughter in Raleigh so they can spend the weekend together at her home in Chapel Hill. Typically, they go thrift shopping, visit family and friends and take in a church service before she takes her daughter back. There was a point at which […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Anyone who wants to work as an officer for the High Point Police Department will have to do more than simply meet the basic requirements, according to Police Chief Curtis Cheeks III. When Cheeks took over the department of around 250 sworn officers in 2024, he inherited an agency that already […]
Mebane Rash/Education NC For those of you who lived and worked in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, you have seen a glimpse of the future. Many of us remember the near constant whirr of helicopters. Earlier this month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced eight proposals that could define the future of aviation, and […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News Stokes County resident Tim Mabe likes to use a boat analogy to convey the size of a data center proposed for a nearly 2,000‑acre parcel along the Dan River that county commissioners voted to rezone for heavy industrial use in January. “Stokes County wants to get in the boat‑building business, and […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Charlotte City Council has not explained why it canceled Wednesday afternoon’s special meeting on the Interstate 77 toll lane project. Council members had scheduled a special meeting on Tuesday about I-77, but then abruptly cancelled it hours later. They have not offered an explanation as to why the meeting was called […]
WRAL News The president of the UNC System, which oversees all public universities in North Carolina, must give written approval of any contract for the Tar Heels’ next men’s basketball coach, a byproduct of the messy process that led to the hiring of football coach Bill Belichick and one that limits the role of the […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The New Hanover County Board of Elections has begun the process of removing its director, according to sources close to the board. The board met in a closed session Monday night to discuss a personnel matter, though previous reporting from Port City Daily and WHQR indicated it was to discuss the […]
Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina recovery officials are cautiously hopeful that newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, will speed up the flow of federal disaster aid to the state. The Senate confirmed Mullin Monday night in a 54-45 vote. He will be the second leader of DHS […]
Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times Almost a decade after Hurricane Matthew rains caused Hominy Creek to overflow its banks into public housing units in Wilson, local officials hosted a visit to the site to explain the positive impacts of demolition and stormwater improvement projects. Wilson city officials hosted N.C. Department of Public Safety Secretary Jeffrey […]
The Hendersonville Lightning The N.C. Department of Transportation, in partnership with local municipalities, will remove barricades and open U.S. 64 to traffic this weekend, ahead of schedule. Blythe Construction will reopen the highway in a temporary pattern on Saturday as crews finish reconstructing the hurricane-damaged corridor. “We are excited to open this critical route into […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The state has OK’d the city of High Point’s revised timeline for financing an upcoming road project. The North Carolina Local Government Commission recently granted the city’s request for a three-year extension to issue general obligation bonds for the Triangle Lake Road reconstruction. It’s among $22 million in street and […]
Celeste Cairns is a GOP state representative for Carteret County and part of Craven, first elected in 2022. She won re-election in 2024 with 70% of the vote. She is deputy majority whip. The University of Georgia graduate is a former employee of Deloitte who also worked for Willis Corroon and HCA Healthcare. She lives […]
Legislative and executive-branch fiscal forecasters say they anticipate the state will collect $34.7 billion in general-fund revenues in fiscal 2026-27, about 1% less than what they think the state’s likely to collect by this summer. In dollar terms, that’d be $360 million less than in fiscal 2025-26, which nonetheless is tracking over forecasters’ expectations from 10 […]
