Travis Bland/WUNC News Raleigh is exploring an ambitious new greenway to connect downtown to Dix Park. Called The Oakline, the path would begin in front of the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts and run through the future Salisbury Square development and the City Gateway area where the Mira apartment complex is now built. […]
Ally Kadlubar/WRAL News The town of Zebulon said it is learning more reasons why it is on a list of municipalities that will face increased scrutiny from the state going forward. In July, a state audit revealed the town lacked internal controls to effectively manage its finances and overspent from its general fund. The Local […]
Andrew Tangel & Hanna Krueger/The Wall Street Journal More than a minute before a Boeing 767 landed at a Miami airport Sunday, a pilot warned that the aircraft was approaching too fast, followed by electronic cockpit warnings. The Amazon cargo jet nevertheless continued its approach and touched down at roughly 182 mph. Investigators say the […]
Sophia DePhillips/Port City Daily One month after Brad George left the Pender County Board of Commissioners, his seat remains vacant after commissioners tabled the appointment of his replacement — Beth Burns — in light of another challenge to her ascendancy. Burns was scheduled to be appointed to the open District 1 seat during Tuesday night’s […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The Chatham Mills property in Pittsboro is under new ownership. Local entrepreneur Chris Ehrenfeld — the owner and CEO of BOLD Companies — purchased the 28-acre property off Hillsboro Street on September 3, which have operated as a retail center since 1997. He also bought a 3.64 acre property directly to the […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A class action lawsuit nine years in the making will finally go before a jury in March 2027. The lawsuit represents more than 180,000 North Carolinians impacted by the Chemours Fayetteville Works plant. The case is being litigated by co-lead counsel, Cohen Milstein, a law firm with an office in Raleigh […]
Taylor Knopf/NC Health News In 2014, Angela Diaz was 24 years old and believed she was receiving secret messages from the world around her. She describes being paranoid that her coworkers were watching her and could hear her thoughts. She believed one was sending her secret messages through small things he would do, such as […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News Seth Kotch is an American studies professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He researches modern American history and his classes range from one on the death penalty to Southern culture. Every year, in his “This Place Called the ‘South’” class, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Seth Kotch kicks off a semester-long round of Trivial Pursuit with […]
Tammy Webber & Joshua A. Bickel/The Associated Press The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It’s an idyllic setting in North Carolina’s Inner Banks, where fields of […]
Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press Moore County is paying more than $50,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over allegations of unnecessary institutionalization of two children by the county’s Department of Social Services, even though the county denies any wrongdoing. The settlement, signed by both parties in May, is the latest development in the case following claims […]
Trains The North Carolina Railroad Co. has awarded two $500,000 grants to prepare rail-served industrial sites for future development and has opened applications for the next round of the grant program. Harnett County and Greensboro received the grants under the NCRR’s Build Ready Sites program. “The best time to prepare for an economic development opportunity […]
Will Doran/WRAL News Members of N.C. State’s 1983 national championship men’s basketball team told the North Carolina Supreme Court Tuesday that former student-athletes should be paid if their university or the NCAA uses their name, image or likeness — an argument that could lead to compensation for hundreds of former athletes in a state with […]
Molly Steur/Education NC As teachers across North Carolina finish setting up their classrooms for the new school year, they often spend their own money to fill in the gaps of what is needed for their students. Some teachers share their classroom needs with the public, adding donation requests to a site called DonorsChoose. Last month, […]
Flynn Snyder/WRAL News A committee of Cary Town Council members met Tuesday evening as fallout continues from a recent state auditor’s report that revealed “questionable” spending of taxpayer dollars. For the first time, the committee met to discuss recommendations stemming from several reviews of Cary’s financial practices, including the state audit. The state auditor’s report, […]
Lily Levin/Smoky Mountain News Swain County Manager Tommy Dills at a Sept. 1 commission meeting proposed the county purchase 67 Lakeview Drive, colloquially known as the airport property, for nearly $3 million. No tax increase would be necessary, he said, to finance the transaction. Commissioners appeared unanimously onboard with Dills’ recommendation. But the chosen route […]
