Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Over two days last week, the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission and its advisory panel viewed presentations with vivid views of battered oceanfront buildings, severely eroded beaches and remains of various sand barriers and traps designed to hold back ocean forces. With legislation that would repeal the state’s landmark ban on […]
Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Electric rates are going up for Haywood Electric Membership Cooperative customers for the first time in eight years. HEMC will raise its rates by 9% starting in October. A typical residential member using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month will see their average bill rise almost $15 per month. HEMC hasn’t raised rates […]
Analisa Sorrells Archer/Education NC Community colleges play a crucial role in driving workforce development and economic mobility. Yet in North Carolina, just 49% of community college students complete a credential, transfer, or are still enrolled after four years. In the 2021-22 school year, when leaders at Isothermal Community College disaggregated student success measures like course […]
Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Ralph Hise will square off against challenger Frank Hughes III for the second campaign in a row as he vies to become the longest-serving member of the state Senate. Hise (R-Mitchell) is angling to become Senate president pro tem when Phil Berger, who leaves his seat after losing a close Republican […]
Bradley George/WUNC News North Carolina-based Samaritan’s Purse is sending more than 40 tons of aid to Nepal, as rescue teams race to find survivors from last week’s catastrophic flooding along the Chinese border. The combined deaths in Nepal and China surpassed 950, with more than 4,400 people missing. A Boeing 767 cargo plane from the […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Absentee voting begins this week, and early voting isn’t far off. But North Carolina voters won’t have to worry about recently proposed changes to absentee voting, photo ID exception forms or voting site conduct rules until next year because of a quirk in the law. The State Board of Elections spent […]
Outer Banks Voice The North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) will hold a series of public hearings starting in late September on Dominion Energy’s request for a rate hike for customers in the state. The Outer Banks Voice – Dominion Energy seeks rate hike for NC customers Back on May 1, Dominion Energy announced it had […]
Laura Hackett/BPR News The Salvation Army Center of Hope is growing quieter by the day. The hallways, recreation rooms and cafeteria once buzzed with more than 60 of the city’s most vulnerable residents. Now, many of these residents have already cleared out as the Center of Hope prepares to shut its doors until at least […]
Hendersonville Lightning The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Buncombe County Health and Human Services and Henderson County Department of Public Health have been informed of a measles case in a resident of another state who traveled through both counties while infectious. Anyone who was at the Exxon at 1920 Four Seasons Blvd. […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise High Point logistics company RUD plans to add 100 jobs over the next four years in an expansion. It will relocate its downtown office to a new corporate headquarters at 1823 Eastchester Drive next year, said founder and President Drew Haire. This 58,560-square-foot office building was previously the headquarters office […]
