The Greater Fayetteville Business Journal The United States Senate recently voted to approve a transfer of approximately 20 acres of Fort Bragg land to the state of North Carolina to build a new Veterans home in Fayetteville. “North Carolina boasts the fourth-largest military presence in the nation and is the proud home to more than […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States, but it might be even more of a problem than we thought. A new report from NPR and Boston University suggests that the average number of heat-related deaths in North Carolina each year is almost 18 times what the U.S. Centers […]
Desiree Mathurin/The Charlotte Observer More housing is coming to south Charlotte’s Ballantyne neighborhood. And it’s near the long-awaited Wegmans. Site work has begun on a 476-unit development off of North Community House Road, near Upper Avenue and Interstate 485, according to Kyle Whitaker, a development partner at Northwood Ravin. The project spans about 37 acres […]
Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville’s hands may be permanently tied when it comes to regulating the growing number of large developments coming to town, according to a report from the town attorney. Councilmember Jon Feichter asked Town Attorney Martha Bradley last month to draft a narrow legal opinion on what options Waynesville has to regulate […]
Liz Schlemmer/WUNC News Nearly 75% of school districts in N.C. report they don’t have a sustainable funding source to maintain their fleet of computers, including student devices like Chromebooks. North Carolina public schools collectively spent more than $6.6 million last school year to repair broken computers. That’s according to a new report, the first of […]
