Cindy Bae/WTVD Despite historically low unemployment and jobless claims, some North Carolina workers say finding a new job remains difficult as employers remain cautious about hiring. Denise Shipman said the job search process has become more challenging. “It’s not good,” Shipman said. “The way everything is set up now … they’re asking more questions … […]
Morgan Casey/The Assembly The farmworkers who plant and harvest thousands of acres of cotton for Z.V. Pate, Inc. are always looking for signs of trouble. Since the crop sprouted in May, they have regularly scanned plants at the edges of the company’s fields in North Carolina and South Carolina for the cotton jassid, a bug […]
Rebecca Noel/The Charlotte Observer Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education member Charlitta Hatch will ask to release the findings of the investigation into Superintendent Crystal Hill at Tuesday’s board meeting, she told The Charlotte Observer. The board placed Hill on paid leave June 17 and launched an investigation into “matters involving administrative and operational oversight.” The board […]
Cierra Noffke/WilmingtonBiz Community members and health system officials gathered in the Arboretum Education Center Thursday for a public hearing on competing applications from three major healthcare providers vying for acute care beds in New Hanover County. In June, Atrium Health, Novant Health and UNC Health submitted proposals to the state to build hospitals in the […]
Thomas Lester/Furniture Today Top 100 retailer Broad River Retail will open an Ashley 7.0 store in Orangeburg, S.C., in time for Black Friday. The Fort Mill, S.C.-based retailer, which owns and operates Ashley stores in the Carolinas, northeast Georgia, the Pacific Northwest and Maine, purchased a former ACE Hardware location near the Orangeburg Mall. When […]
The Greater Fayetteville Business Journal According to a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) report, Ryder Trucks plans to lay off 73 workers at its Fayetteville location at 2486 Gillespie St., effective Oct. 12, 2026. Operations at the site are expected to continue. The new logistics provider has expressed interest in retaining as many employees […]
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company, a North Carolina-based soft drink company with a facility in Colfax, North Carolina, will pay $36,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. According to the lawsuit, a former Cheerwine employee took medication […]
Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News North Carolina education and public safety leaders are increasingly taking steps to improve school safety — an issue that’s top of mind for families and students, too, who’d rather focus on learning in school than on well-being. WRAL News found generally declining rates of criminal offenses reported in schools for the past […]
Richard Stradling/The Raleigh News & Observer With a multi-year, $2.5 billion expansion underway, Raleigh-Durham International Airport is making a couple of modest changes to increase capacity at its smaller passenger terminal. RDU will add about 1,600 square feet to the lobby of Terminal 1 to make room for three additional ticket counters and more space […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio With an aging grid and a wave of incoming data centers, could schools help solve North Carolina’s energy crunch? Sustainability think tank Frontier Group and advocacy group Environment North Carolina released a report that found that the state’s schools could host 900 megawatts of solar energy. That’s enough to power all the […]
Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog The hearing Wednesday at Asheville-Buncombe Technical College was a routine part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) certificate of need process. It was an opportunity for state regulators to hear public comments and presentations on the competing proposals before them. But today, even routine administrative healthcare proceedings […]
KFF Health News Hospitals across the U.S. are trying to reduce maternal deaths and complications after pregnancies using one small tool: a silicone wristband stamped with the declaration “I Gave Birth.” The wristbands are part of a growing initiative first launched by North Carolina-based ECU Health as Congress sought to address the nation’s growing maternal […]
Chantal Brown/Education NC The U.S. News & World Report released its updated rankings on Aug. 18 of public North Carolina high schools for the 2026-27 academic year based on several student performance indicators. The results come after evaluating about 27,000 eligible public high schools across the country, with nearly 18,000 ranked, U.S. News said on […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News North Carolina is home to more than 100 higher education institutions. They include large research universities, small private liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, single-gender colleges, community colleges, and others. Some focus on workforce pipeline training, others are attached to enormous healthcare systems, and several promote being a place where students can discover themselves […]
Woody Cain/WFAE Radio The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization continues to wrestle with a looming $60 million payback to the state for I-77 toll lanes planning if it remains opposed to the project. At the group’s meeting Wednesday night, Charlotte City Council member Ed Driggs said the council’s transportation committee discussed possible paths forward during […]
