Caroline Parker/Education NC One Wednesday in late April at Rockingham Early College High, students in Valencia Abbott’s 10th grade civics class read an article involving Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and other real-world examples of rising health care costs. Abbott, who was named the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s 2025 National History Teacher of the Year, asked […]
You’ll have to wait for a fuller account in an upcoming Business North Carolina of Friday’s NC Leadership Conference, but we can quickly offer some highlights. The morning’s first panel focused on North Carolina’s continued population group and saw one participant, Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, say permitting reform has to be part of the solution […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Arrival of Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, comes with North Carolinians paying $4.17 for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline and $5.39 for a gallon of diesel. Even at 36 cents better than the national average for traditional transportation energy, it’s an expensive proposition for travel. AAA forecasts […]
Mary Helen Moore/Axios Raleigh A federal antitrust lawsuit targeting the broiler chicken industry is nearing settlement, putting one of North Carolina’s biggest agricultural sectors in the spotlight. Why it matters: Chicken is American consumers’ favorite — and typically cheapest — source of meat. Driving the news: The U.S. government and several state governments, including North […]
Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Fayetteville City Manager Doug Hewett proposed a $322 million budget for fiscal year 2027 on Thursday, telling council members the proposal “keeps the main thing the main thing” by protecting core services, finishing projects already underway, and making what he called “strategic investments that position Fayetteville for an even stronger future.” The […]
Chris Stiles/The Robesonian The Lumbee Tribe’s event commemorating its federal recognition may have physically been within the campus of UNC Pembroke on Saturday. But the celebration, in a way, stretched nationwide. Members of the tribe and its allies traveled to Pembroke from as far away as Washington state as several thousand enjoyed music, food, a […]
James Farrell/WFAE Radio Mallard Creek High School has filed a formal appeal after one of its winning track and field runners was disqualified for celebrating as he crossed the finish line, a decision that cost the school a chance at a third straight state championship. Now viral videos show that as runner Nyan Brown crossed […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees is continuing to impede faculty-led tenure appointments – a move that’s highly unusual in academia. The board’s reputation for meddling in department tenure decisions started when a group of trustees intervened in the hiring of journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2021. They voted to instead offer her a […]
The Bladen Journal Bladen Community College is preparing students for takeoff with the launch of an Aviation Management degree program beginning in the fall. In addition, the college is developing an Air Traffic Control program that is expected to begin in spring 2027 that will make the school the first community college in North Carolina […]
Elaina Athans/WTVD News Mike Ryan was among the first of 12 people to move into the Mira Apartment building when it open doors two years. Now, he’s watching as the City Gateway project is talking shape and is excited for what’s on tap. “I think it’s just growth, and growth is good,” said Ryan. A […]
Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/Education NC North Carolina students have experienced one of the fastest post-pandemic recoveries in math scores nationwide since 2022. Reading scores, however, have dropped since 2022 — and both scores remain below 2019 levels. These results are part of the Education Scorecard, a collaboration between the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University […]
Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A change in the makeup of North Carolina’s juvenile detention population with adult court youth surging from 39% to 65% in a year presents new challenges for the juvenile detention system as it scrambles to accommodate this changing population, according to a new report from the North Carolina Division of Juvenile […]
Democratic Party leaders in Wake and Granville counties have named lawyer and Wake Forest Town Commissioner Haseeb Fatmi as the replacement for former state Sen. Terence Everitt. The decision comes about two weeks after Everitt announced his unexpected, post-primary resignation from the District 18 seat. The district covers northern Wake County and all of Granville […]
Fiscal forecasters now think the state government will bring in $1.3 billion more in the 2025-27 biennium to support its general fund than they were estimating just two months ago. A joint estimate from the Office of State Budget and Management and the legislature’s Fiscal Research Division attributes the change, in part, to a strong […]
Gov. Josh Stein’s administration wants to find 50,000 employers willing to work with the state’s job-training programs. The state Commerce Department has launched a website that allows employers to voice interest in participating — and to volunteer information about what challenges they face in their business, among other things. The move is occurring in conjunction […]
