Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News North Carolina school leaders say they had fewer teacher vacancies at the start of this school year, according to a new survey from the North Carolina School Superintendents Association. Superintendents reported 2,009 teacher vacancies as of Sept. 18, part of 6,265 total employee vacancies. Superintendents reported 2,155 teacher vacancies at the start […]
Christine Zhu/NC Newsline An approximately three-mile line of vehicles stretched through Rodanthe on Monday as hundreds of vacationers sought to board the emergency ferry leaving Hatteras Island on the North Carolina coast. Last week’s nor’easter — a coastal storm with the strongest winds blowing from the northeast — severely damaged portions of North Carolina Highway […]
Frank Daniels IV/The Southern Pines Pilot With talk from the grass-roots on up in recent months about surveillance technology — particularly regarding Flock-branded and other automated license plate readers — many have called for elected officials to respond with protective measures. In an effort to answer those calls, the Pinehurst Village Council created a Public […]
Anthony Goodman/The Sampson Independent Sampson County commissioners have thrown their support behind the Clinton City Board of Education’s pursuit of a new $49 million elementary school that members say would consolidate two of the district’s oldest campuses and dramatically change how its youngest students move through the school system. During a special-called meeting Tuesday, commissioners […]
Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio The Charlotte Area Transit System will launch a wave of service improvements starting next week. Following last year’s “yes” vote for the 1-cent local sales tax referendum to fund transit, CATS will roll out the first wave of improvements from its 2055 Transit System Plan next week. That includes the Better […]
Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Almost 90 Haywood residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed in Helene are still waiting to find out if FEMA will pay them for their property. So far, only 25 applications for the FEMA buyout program have been approved. Another 87 applications are still waiting for a decision from FEMA. The […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily Cape Fear River Watch and the Southeastern Environmental Law Center sent a letter to Chemours earlier this week claiming it has not adhered to a 2019 consent order with the state by continuing to allow PFAS into groundwater and the river. Chemours denies the negligence claims and violations, and the parties […]
Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch Crusoe, a Denver-based AI data center startup that recently raised $3.9 billion, has ended plans to use a new line of stationary power plants developed by fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic. Founded in 2018 as a bitcoin miner that ran on excess natural gas from oil fields, Crusoe has since become one of […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Wake County leaders gave the go-ahead Monday for a controversial combination between Raleigh-based WakeMed and Atrium Health, the state’s largest hospital system, which is based in Charlotte. In spite of significant public opposition to the deal, which critics fear will increase prices for patients and decrease quality of care, county commissioners […]
Tori Newby/IndyWeek In late July, the Durham County Board of Elections posted on Facebook calling for Republicans to sign up to work the polls this election season. Commenters swiftly voiced concerns that the board was only looking for voters from one party and that independent voters were left out of the process. The board was […]
Annie Ma/The Associated Press For decades, a key principle underpinned civil rights enforcement in American schools: Not all discrimination was intentional. Even if a school policy was written without overt racial bias, it might unfairly hurt one group of students over another, the understanding went. The concept is known as systemic racism, and Republican and […]
Analisa Sorrells Archer/EducationNC Growing up in Hendersonville, Chris English’s dad owned an Exxon gas station. English spent time around cars and mechanics from a young age and envisioned a future for himself as a mechanic. “I didn’t grow up hunting. I grew up going to the racetracks,” English said. “My world has always been about […]
Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Dozens of hospitals statewide will be able to take part next year in research to improve maternal and newborn care as part of the revived Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina. The collaborative originally planned to launch the projects this year. But the group lost funding in October 2025 after getting […]
Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning A developer is seeking approval from the city of Hendersonville for a rezoning that would allow construction of a 288-unit multi-family complex on 27 acres on Upward Road near I-26. A Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina-based architectural-engineering firm, is seeking a rezoning from Henderson County’s Regional Commercial zone to the city’s Commercial Highway […]
Bill Kirby Jr./CityView Brittany McLaurin, finance director for Hope Mills, made it clear from the outset. On September 2, the state’s Local Government Commission (LGC) notified the town it was added to a monitoring list for local governments that may need additional financial oversight or support. Putting Hope Mills on the Unit Assistance List (UAL) […]
