Katherine Zehnder/The Carolina Journal In 2012, the US Postal Service began mandating that all new housing developments use cluster box units (CBUs) rather than individual mailboxes. According to Kim Phillips, regulatory affairs director for the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition (TREBIC), this new requirement, which wasn’t enforced in...

Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed One in 10 faculty members working in states that restrict academic speech are seeking jobs out of state, according to survey data released this week. Six percent reported they are trying to leave the academy altogether. The new data on relocating researchers underpins anecdotal stories about...

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh Raleigh Police Chief Rico Boyce says his department is finally back to adequate staffing after years of shortages coming out of the pandemic. But as the city’s population continues to boom, he says the force must keep growing and be given the tools to focus on crime....

Aaron Sánchez-Guerra/WUNC News  Five years ago, 42-year-old Andrew Brown, Jr. died in his car a few yards away from his home in Elizabeth City, with a deputy sheriff’s bullet in the back of his head. Brown Jr.’s death in 2021 made international headlines as a national reckoning of racism and...

Monica Casey/WRAL News Students, faculty and WRAL keep pushing UNC to release results of an investigation into one of its schools. A review of the “School of Civic Life and Leadership” cost the university $1.2 million and wrapped up earlier this year. However, the full report still hasn’t come out....

Hudson Steiner/WECT News State environmental officials held a public hearing in Wilmington on Thursday for the proposed rules to monitor and reduce PFAS chemicals in North Carolina’s waterways. The meeting at the Wilmington Skyline Center drew such a large crowd that the fire marshal declared the venue at capacity and...

Caroline Yaffa & Will Doran/WRAL News Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools officials said Thursday that books in their libraries comply with state law, as do processes aimed at vetting the appropriateness of titles in the stacks — but didn’t appear to convince the Republican state lawmakers who had called them in...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News A stretch of land along Ratcliff Cove Road — quiet, rural, long-defined by fields, creek-bottoms and generational ties — became the focal point of a larger question April 14, as Waynesville Town Council took up an annexation request that would determine not just what gets built...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A series of alleged misconduct and removal cases within the past year involving Western North Carolina sheriffs has been making waves in the state’s mountain counties due to their rare occurrence, with the district attorney saying she’s “not seen it like this before.” The cases in...

Kadia Goba/NOTUS The House Ethics Committee interviewed a number of Rep. Alma Adams’ former aides as part of an investigation into an alleged inappropriate relationship between the lawmaker and a staffer who works out of her North Carolina district office, NOTUS has learned. Over the course of several months in...

Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A letter from local officials will be sent to legislators in the North Carolina General Assembly asking for Brunswick County to have some say over open-burning regulations when it comes to developers clearing land. Brunswick commissioners unanimously approved sending the letter to Senator Bill Rabon and...

Sarah White & Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Haywood residents voiced a resounding “no” to Duke Energy’s proposed rate hikes during a public hearing for the Western North Carolina region last week. “It’s just abhorrent to me that we’re now looking at an 18% increase in electric rates here,” Waynesville resident...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise City-commissioned architects have advised against incorporating the First Baptist Church of High Point sanctuary into a possible new municipal headquarters. Preserving the 405 N. Main St. structure would make it difficult to develop a new City Hall and parking deck next to it on the...

Coastal Review Online The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that its officials are considering new design options for the Carolina Bays Parkway Extension project in Brunswick County after feedback from the public. NCDOT, in collaboration with the South Carolina Department of Transportation, is planning to extend S.C. Highway...

Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald Near the end of a nearly five-hour meeting, the Sanford Council on Tuesday night voted 6-1 with Chris Petty dissenting to approve zoning regulations for data centers. The public hearing, which included a few non-related items, started at 6 p.m. and ended at 10:50 p.m....