Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press Only three years into the completion of the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forest Land Management Plan, its future hangs in limbo, putting both current and future timber projects in Western North Carolina on pause. A federal court ruled March 31 in favor of several conservation organizations, finding that the US Forest […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein formally appointed Jonah Garson to the N.C. Senate District 23 seat – which covers Orange, Person and Caswell Counties – on Friday. The move came after Garson’s approval by local Democratic Party members on Apr. 4. Before he headed to Raleigh to take part in the short […]
Mary Helen Moore/Axios Raleigh North Carolina researchers tagging and tracking coastal fish have created an online tracker that lets anyone see where the fish are pinging. Why it matters: Red drum are hugely popular recreational fish, and yet their movement patterns are somewhat of a mystery. Zoom in: The state line between the Carolinas is […]
Andrew Marshall/The Waynesville Mountaineer There’s a syrupy quality to the morning light streaming through the windows at Pisgah Barber Shop. It’s a gentle glow — not the blazing fluorescents of a salon chain — but enough to illuminate the steam coming off Ken Warren’s coffee, and enough for the man himself to wield a straight […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority gave a glimpse this week into needed rate increases to accommodate rising costs — including from PFAS litigation — and the replacement of the Southside Water Reclamation Facility. At the CFPUA board’s April 8 meeting, staff said a recommended budget would result in a 7.55% […]
Amber Gaudet/The Charlotte Observer A Charlotte-based hair restoration surgeon cannot reapply for his North Carolina medical license until at least 2027, the state medical board announced Thursday. The board indefinitely suspended the license of Dr. Bruce Howard Marko following his role in a $17 million, multi-state bank fraud scheme that began in 2018. Marko, now […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise South University in High Point wants to be synonymous with academic programming in health care, specifically nursing. Gone are the days when it offered undergraduate and graduate degrees across several fields, including accounting. It recently moved to an expanded space off N.C. 68 at 4050 Premier Drive, directly across the […]
Kirstyn Clark/WRAL News The City of Raleigh is taking another step in its transformation of Dorothea Dix Park with the demolition of four buildings. Four buildings on the west side of the former hospital campus, known as the Adams, Ashby, Kirby and Williams buildings, will soon be demolished. According to Dix Park, the project is […]
UNC Chapel Hill officials have walked back a vice provost’s statement that they’re investigating the student group Hill After Hours over a video lampooning attitudes toward the South Campus dorms. “Please be assured that we are not investigating any student or student group” in connection to that, or to The Daily Tar Heel’s since-repudiated April […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek says Baptists on Mission’s taxpayer-subsidized home-repair effort in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene has complied with all the state’s requirements. It also “met people in [the region] where they needed to be met, and did so with a sense of urgency,” he said Friday after his office released a short […]
North Carolina’s public universities mint lots of new engineers every year, but a UNC System analysis says they’re still not turning out enough. But that doesn’t exactly make engineering unique. The system’s new Workforce Alignment Report says the state’s economy can use … well, more of everything. “North Carolina has a strong and growing economy […]
State Rep. Pricey Harrison isn’t the only North Carolina voice weighing in with the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of its review of a product-liability verdict against Monsanto over the Roundup weedkiller. The N.C. Farm Bureau, and the NC Chamber, signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief that sides with Monsanto. They argue that the German-owned company’s […]
UNC Chapel Hill is in trouble with one of the country’s top free-speech advocacy groups. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — more popularly known as FIRE — wants campus administrators to retract their criticism of The Daily Tar Heel’s April Fools edition. They’re also calling on them to end a Student Affairs investigation […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC News The state’s Utilities Commission will soon decide whether Duke Energy can increase residential electric rates by up to 18% over two years. It’s the first big decision for the commission since it shifted to a Republican majority. In late 2024, the legislature took an appointment to the Utilities Commission away from the […]
Adam Wagner/WFDD Radio By the time David Batts spoke in front of the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners, they had already changed its zoning ordinance to allow data centers and cryptomining facilities to be built in the Kingsboro Industrial Park. The next decision was whether the county should sell 120 acres it owns to developer […]
