Outer Banks Voice In his weekly newsletter released on Friday, Oct. 25, State Senator Bobby Hanig addressed the continuing deadlock over re-instating Jockey’s Ridge State Park as an Area of Environmental Concern and stated his intent to get legislative approval in the upcoming session. “It’s been frustrating to see the...

John Boyle/The Asheville Watchdog The floodwaters rose so fast at Thanh Bui’s house the morning of Sept. 27, she had to swim to safety. Bui, 55, and her 30-year-old son, Quintin Ho, had been up much of the night, monitoring the howling winds and rainfall of Tropical Storm Helene. Ho...

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Pender County has passed a resolution asking for a moratorium on new shellfish farms in its coastal waters. Onslow County has approved a similar request. Both counties say it’s unfair that shellfish farms can be established in their waters, but not in neighboring counties like New...

Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynewsville) Mountaineer A lawsuit over the stalled sale of the Canton paper mill following the flood has not deterred the prospective buyer, Eric Spirtas, who claims the delay was due in part to Pactiv Evergreen’s refusal to provide proof of insurance. “If they had insurance policies, you would...

Rusty Jacobs/WUNC Radio Litigation and elections in North Carolina go hand in hand. And in the days and weeks after this election, it seems very possible that trend will continue — even, potentially, with the fate of the race for U.S. president at stake. Court battles over redistricting in North...

Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Carol Moore has always had “a heart for seniors.” When she was a teenager, she took care of her grandmother. Then she looked after her mother in law who had rheumatoid arthritis. Now a senior herself at 73, she said her peers are often “overlooked.” Moore...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Republican state House member Tricia Cotham is running a misleading TV commercial criticizing her Democratic opponent Nicole Sidman over her views about a homeless encampment that grew near uptown Charlotte during the coronavirus pandemic. The commercial misrepresents Sidman’s actual statement on the camp. And in a further...

Peter Castagno/Port City Daily Though a development moratorium has been floated in recent months by both a county leader and resident input, Monday night it failed to move forward. Chair Randy Thompson raised a motion Monday’s Brunswick County commissioner meeting for staff to prepare information for an imminent 120-day development...

Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline Last week, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced that his office was filing a lawsuit against Club Exploria, LLC, for allegedly spamming more than one million residents with unlawful robocalls attempting to sell timeshares and vacation rentals. Speaking at the press conference last Friday, Stein alleged...

Aisha N. Frazier/WCHL Chapelboro Trevohn Robinson is frustrated by the constant rising cost of rent in Chapel Hill. Robinson, who has lived in his apartment for less than three years, said his rent has increased with each lease renewal. “It’s an issue. My rent just goes up and up,” Robinson...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio The Greensboro City Council on Tuesday approved a cap and cover option for Bingham Park, foregoing a full remediation of the area due to available funding. The park was opened in the 1970s atop an unregulated landfill, and was a key part of several neighborhoods in east...

The Associated Press The North Carolina county that is home to Asheville overcounted deaths caused by Helene by as many as 30, according to a statement Tuesday from its sheriff’s office and data from the state, significantly reducing the death toll from the historic storm. Buncombe County officials, who previously...

Brian Gordon/The News & Observer Karen Bruggemann of Candler, North Carolina, assured she isn’t missing. “Sometimes I wish I were,” she joked over the phone Tuesday. Bruggemann’s name appears on “Hurricane Helene People Finder,” a Google Doc disseminated online after then-Tropical Storm Helene devastated multiple Western North Carolina communities. The...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC As the 14 North Carolina community colleges impacted by Hurricane Helene continue recovery efforts, the N.C. Community College System (NCCCS) is asking state lawmakers for student support funds and stabilization dollars due to enrollment loss, according to information presented at the State Board of Community College’s...

Bradley George/WUNC Radio Union members in the crowd during President Joe Biden’s visit to Wolfspeed in Durham in March 2023. Woflspeed is putting plans to build a semiconductor factory in Germany on hold, according to officials and reports in German media. The Durham-based company announced the project in 2023. It...