As of late 2025, about 45% of the people who ride Charlotte’s buses and trains weren’t paying the CATS system’s fares, State Auditor Dave Boliek and his aides say. This costs the system between $5 million and $6.5 million a year in revenue, they say, basing both findings on the Charlotte Area Transit System’s own […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News The UNC System has responded to a “national call to action” from the federal government. Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon issued a letter to universities across the country asking leaders to affirm their commitment to several principles of “academic excellence” to help “restore public trust in higher education.” […]
Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press Within this enclosure and behind these vacant industrial buildings in northeast Raleigh sits the Old Raleigh Landfill #7, one of many similar sites across the state that DEQ hasn’t yet investigated. Mackenzie Thomas / Carolina Public Press A North Carolina audit released last month reveals a lack of progress in a […]
April Laissle/WFDD Radio A candidate for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education is facing two felony charges related to the alleged misuse of a company credit card. Ronald Jason Lucero, a Republican candidate for an at-large seat, was arrested last month and charged with two counts of obtaining property by false pretense. He was released […]
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 […]
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 […]
Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline “This is the big one.” That’s how North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson described the landmark federal trial that got underway Tuesday, in which Meta is accused of designing its platforms to be addictive to children. Jackson and a bipartisan group of 28 other attorneys general allege the tech giant deceived the […]
Julian Berger/WFAE Radio A group of members of Congress, including two from North Carolina, are criticizing conditions at a Georgia immigration detention center where immigrants detained in the Charlotte area are frequently sent. Democratic U.S. Reps. Valerie Foushee and Deborah Ross of North Carolina toured the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, on Tuesday alongside […]
Dasia Williams/CityView Cumberland County Schools expects to spend nearly $4.5 million this school year to maintain a layered security network that includes school resource officers, traffic control officers, and unarmed security guards across the district. The Cumberland County Board of Education approved four school safety agreements on June 9 that are expected to cost approximately […]
The Associated Press Atlantic Coast Conference rivals North Carolina and NC State will meet in a nonconference men’s basketball game in Greensboro on Dec. 15. The schools on Wednesday announced the scheduling of the neutral site Tobacco Road Classic several months after the ACC reduced its conference slate from 20 to 18 games. That, along […]
Ally Kadlubar & Amy Benkovich/WRAL News The City of Raleigh on Wednesday announced the closing of a breezeway near the downtown GoRaleigh bus station as it works to create safer public transit. According to Assistant Director of Transportation Het Patel, the city will install fencing next week at a breezeway on Wilmington Street that leads […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz A recently released environmental assessment of two alternatives for the replacement of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge outlines potential impacts on both sides of the bridge. The N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) released the assessment, which details the anticipated impacts to natural, human, environmental, physical and biological resources for the proposed alternatives, late […]
Henry Taylor/WCHL Chapelboro On Sunday, May 12, 1996, UNC’s Phi Gamma Delta house caught fire, leading to the deaths of students Ben Woodruff, Anne Smith, Joanna Howell, Josh Weaver and Mark Strickland. It was Graduation Day, and it was Mother’s Day. In the months and years that followed, some of the people impacted by the […]
WRAL News One-third of North Carolinians align themselves with President Donald Trump’s “make America great again” movement, and fewer than one-third of North Carolinians align with democratic socialists, according to the results of a new Elon University poll. The results, released Tuesday, underscore the power of moderates in statewide races, including the contest for the […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News On July 24, nurses and environmental advocates gathered outside the General Assembly in Raleigh to protest the North Carolina AI Leadership Council’s new strategic road map for the state’s adoption and use of artificial intelligence. Protesters raised concerns, among other topics, about electricity costs and new energy infrastructure required to power […]
