Monica Casey/WRAL News Students, faculty and WRAL keep pushing UNC to release results of an investigation into one of its schools. A review of the “School of Civic Life and Leadership” cost the university $1.2 million and wrapped up earlier this year. However, the full report still hasn’t come out. WRAL is part of a […]
Hudson Steiner/WECT News State environmental officials held a public hearing in Wilmington on Thursday for the proposed rules to monitor and reduce PFAS chemicals in North Carolina’s waterways. The meeting at the Wilmington Skyline Center drew such a large crowd that the fire marshal declared the venue at capacity and had to turn people away, […]
Within Gov. Josh Stein’s budget request for fiscal 2026-27 is a proposal to set up a new program called the “Strategic Workforce Training” fund to underwrite job training and similar services. Stein and his aides would fund it by assessing employers a fee tied to what they pay each year in unemployment-insurance taxes. Some of […]
North Carolina’s General Assembly is a serial lawbreaker, a state House member says. Rep. Phil Rubin, D-Wake, made the accusation during this week’s floor debate on Senate Bill 214, the rewritten “various local provisions” package that would give Franklin County a leg up in a regional water-rights dispute. It also includes sections that de-annex portions […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek has asked the SBI to probe what he calls “gross misconduct” at N.C. A&T State University involving its use of about $5.1 million in student-fee money. Between the summers of 2017 and 2025, campus officials channeled the money into “financial assistance for students,” handing it out “without evidence of [using] merit […]
A “local provisions” bill got pulled from the House’s Wednesday docket because some legislators think it’ll give Franklin County authority to seize ownership of a neighboring community’s water-treatment plant. The House-Senate compromise draft of Senate Bill 214 includes a section that would allow Franklin County to acquire, through condemnation, property in Vance, Warren or Halifax […]
Caroline Yaffa & Will Doran/WRAL News Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools officials said Thursday that books in their libraries comply with state law, as do processes aimed at vetting the appropriateness of titles in the stacks — but didn’t appear to convince the Republican state lawmakers who had called them in to testify on the issue. […]
Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News A stretch of land along Ratcliff Cove Road — quiet, rural, long-defined by fields, creek-bottoms and generational ties — became the focal point of a larger question April 14, as Waynesville Town Council took up an annexation request that would determine not just what gets built there, but how the town […]
Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A series of alleged misconduct and removal cases within the past year involving Western North Carolina sheriffs has been making waves in the state’s mountain counties due to their rare occurrence, with the district attorney saying she’s “not seen it like this before.” The cases in question involve sheriffs from Swain, […]
Kadia Goba/NOTUS The House Ethics Committee interviewed a number of Rep. Alma Adams’ former aides as part of an investigation into an alleged inappropriate relationship between the lawmaker and a staffer who works out of her North Carolina district office, NOTUS has learned. Over the course of several months in 2023, committee staff interviewed roughly […]
Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A letter from local officials will be sent to legislators in the North Carolina General Assembly asking for Brunswick County to have some say over open-burning regulations when it comes to developers clearing land. Brunswick commissioners unanimously approved sending the letter to Senator Bill Rabon and Representatives Charles Miller and Frank […]
Sarah White & Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Haywood residents voiced a resounding “no” to Duke Energy’s proposed rate hikes during a public hearing for the Western North Carolina region last week. “It’s just abhorrent to me that we’re now looking at an 18% increase in electric rates here,” Waynesville resident Stephen Kangas said during the […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise City-commissioned architects have advised against incorporating the First Baptist Church of High Point sanctuary into a possible new municipal headquarters. Preserving the 405 N. Main St. structure would make it difficult to develop a new City Hall and parking deck next to it on the 3.7-acre city-owned site, said Creech […]
Coastal Review Online The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that its officials are considering new design options for the Carolina Bays Parkway Extension project in Brunswick County after feedback from the public. NCDOT, in collaboration with the South Carolina Department of Transportation, is planning to extend S.C. Highway 31, aka the Carolina Bays […]
Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald Near the end of a nearly five-hour meeting, the Sanford Council on Tuesday night voted 6-1 with Chris Petty dissenting to approve zoning regulations for data centers. The public hearing, which included a few non-related items, started at 6 p.m. and ended at 10:50 p.m. Marshall Downey, the city’s community […]
