Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer What are the boundaries of free speech? That’s the question Haywood County commissioners were faced with at their meeting last week when almost a dozen citizens showed up to talk about the weekly Hands Off Haywood protests. Since March of 2025, protesters have gathered on the sidewalk in front of the […]
Lisa Sorg/NC Newsline & Inside Climate News The man came out of nowhere, but he seemed to be on their side. Dozens of residents of Clemmons, a small village south of Winston-Salem, were alarmed about a proposed asphalt plant that could be built in their neighborhood, Rolling Green Village. The man, who said his name […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square One month after federal Justice Department officials said Duke University discriminated based on race in admissions, and two months after $108 million in federal money was frozen for Duke Health, the U.S. Department of Education has followed with a probe of foreign funding tied to America’s national defense against China. The […]
Akilah Davis/WTVD News Durham Housing Authority leaders say former Forest Hill Heights residents will have the right to return once the long-planned redevelopment of the site is complete, and the agency says safeguards are in place to ensure that promise is honored. The project, known as Tribute Rising, is being marketed as a way to […]
Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio INLIVIAN President and CEO A. Fulton Meachem Junior will retire later this month, ending more than a decade leading Charlotte’s public housing agency. Meachem became CEO in 2012 and oversaw the development of more than 1,600 mixed-income apartments. He also led the organization through its 2019 rebranding from the Charlotte Housing […]
Sharryse Piggott/WUNC News An Orange County judge ruled Friday that a former graduate student charged with shooting and killing a UNC-Chapel Hill professor in 2023 was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Tailei Qi faced a first-degree murder charge for the fatal shooting of Zijie Yan, an associate professor in the Department of Applied […]
Tom Snyder/WRAL TechWire I have been spending a lot of time at the beach lately, without actually spending any time on the beach. A couple of weeks ago, I was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, watching eight startups take the stage at the conclusion of a new accelerator program. The following morning, I squeezed into […]
Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press A potential Tennessee Valley Authority power transmission line running from the Hiwassee River in Tennessee through North Carolina’s far southwest may impact archaeological sites through the heart of the ancestral Cherokee homeland. The 27-mile single-circuit transmission line will cut a 100-foot-wide right-of-way from the Appalachia Hydro Plant in Reliance, Tennessee, to […]
Rachel Moody/WFDD Radio The High Point Police Department is deploying a new alternative crisis response team to better address issues like homelessness, substance use, and mental health. The help, outreach, prevention and engagement, or HOPE, team will include a licensed social worker and two crisis counselors. They’ll identify and direct individuals to emergency housing, food […]
Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog Former Asheville City Manager Debra Campbell backed the renewal of Asheville PEAK Academy’s charter with a glowing letter of recommendation to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The city was including PEAK in its plans to redevelop the Deaverview Apartments public housing complex, she wrote in November, because of “the Academy’s […]
Paul Specht & Will Doran/WRAL News Several North Carolina lobbyists who had been named in a public corruption scheme involving influence-buying at the state legislature could soon have their criminal charges dismissed, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman told WRAL on Thursday. Her office in April brought charges against four lobbyists for gambling and liquor […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily The North Carolina Department of Transportation held two public hearings this week before it chooses its design for the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement, expected by the end of the year. Almost all Wilmington-area residents who signed up to speak called for the 65-foot bridge and no tolls — or another […]
Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News Sweeping federal restrictions on Medicaid, the government-funded health insurance program that covers one in every four North Carolinians, are about to take effect. Recently described by Melanie Bush, head of NC Medicaid, as “probably the most significant changes in the history” of the program, the provisions are part of H.R. 1, […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Ophthalmologist Jay Singleton has performed more than 30,000 eye surgeries in his career. For more than 20 years he’s run a vision center in New Bern, where patients receive routine checkups and treatments for eye disorders. But for most of his career, Singleton performed his surgeries inside the local hospital, CarolinaEast […]
Rebecca Noel/The Charlotte Observer A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools employee raised concerns about $30,000 monthly payments the district made to a consulting firm without an official contract with the company. She made the allegation in a human resources complaint filed Aug. 21. It was later shared with The Charlotte Observer, and the employee requested anonymity for fear […]
