Tori Newby/IndyWeek In a region once known for its booming tobacco industry, Durham County has lost more than 40,000 acres of farmland since 1974—a 71% reduction—as new housing developments make headway and farmers struggle to afford rising costs. More than 16,000 of those acres have been lost since 2007, and farmers are hardly making the […]
Hayden Wittenborn/WUNC News Prime real estate sits empty in downtown Raleigh on most weekdays. Across the city, church parking lots are full for a few services a week while the surrounding county faces a deepening housing crisis. For local congregations, these lots present an opportunity to help the community. Finding affordable housing in Raleigh has […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The developer behind Barclay projects at the corner of 17th Street and Independence Boulevard is looking to undo a decade-old density restriction on property near The Pointe. The request’s outcome, to be determined by Wilmington City Council, will affect how the last acreage of the Barclay projects are developed, as well […]
Bill Moss/The Hendersonville Lightning The growing anti-Flock campaign is now fighting City Hall while still urging the county to shut down the license-plate readers. But so far, the surveillance camera opponents have mostly heard a defense of the system and gotten no commitment to remove them. Flock opponents appeared at a Hendersonville City Council meeting […]
The High Point Enterprise A Guilford County Detention Center officer was arrested Friday and accused of forging the signatures of magistrates on documents allowing immigrants to be held longer than the norm, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office said. The investigation began after the magistrate’s office notified the sheriff’s office about 8 a.m. Friday of a […]
Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News North Carolina House Democrats say they will no longer support one of their own candidates as criticism mounts over messages promoting political violence that were posted to her social media accounts. The withdrawal of support could have ramifications for the party’s efforts to gain influence in the chamber. Shelly Headen is the […]
Brian Slodysko/The Associated Press A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.” The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political standards. What […]
WFAE | By James Farrell After a tumultuous stretch that included a budget fight, a wide-ranging investigation, a superintendent suspension and subsequent reinstatement, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will consider removing Stephanie Sneed as chair at its next meeting. Multiple board members confirmed to WFAE on Friday that a motion calling for Sneed’s removal will be […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Tax subsidy of $125,000 from the One North Carolina Fund, and $691,037 from local incentives, is part of the equation in a steel fabrication company’s $19 million expansion in Cumberland County. SteelFab plans to add 38 jobs – more than $21,000 per job in subsidies if performance metrics are met. The […]
Kevin Ellis/Business North Carolina The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to make a workforce investment announcement at Albemarle’s lithium mine in Kings Mountain on Monday. Assistant Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson will tour the 1,200-acre mine and processing facility that sits on one of the richest hard-rock lithium deposits in the United States. The […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press After North Carolina voters choose their candidates, they will see at least three more questions at the bottom of their ballot this fall. These are ballot referendums, or policy questions sent to the voters to decide. State lawmakers are asking voters to decide whether three amendments should be made to the […]
John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog After five years of litigation, the City of Asheville and its insurers have agreed to pay $11 million to the wife of a crash victim who was killed on Riverside Drive in a collision blamed on poor drainage that caused an ice slick to form. Two construction companies involved in the case […]
Skye Crawford/NC Health News Before opening what is widely recognized as the first LGBTQ+ senior co-housing community in the U.S., Pat McAulay spent a lot of time at the beach, dreaming. McAulay and her wife, Margaret Roesch, who dreamed alongside her, knew the idea of aging in community wasn’t original. Facebook pages with older […]
Dasia Williams/CityView The Cumberland County Board of Education unanimously advanced a policy Tuesday that allows students to leave school one hour per week for religious instruction. The board voted 8-0 to approve the first reading of a revision to its “Religious-Based Exemption from School Programs” policy. The revision will receive a second reading before final […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio The Thomasville City Schools Board of Education has approved a new superintendent. Shayla Wiggins Savage will assume the role on Oct. 7. She’s worked in the state’s public education system for more than twenty years. Most recently, she served as the chief student services officer in Iredell-Statesville schools. Savage has also been […]
