A gene found in a strain of avian influenza – H5N1 – was detected in industrial discharge from the Forsyth County/ Winston-Salem wastewater treatment plant last month, scientists found, coinciding with an outbreak in a herd of dairy cattle in west-central North Carolina. Scientists at Stanford and Emory universities published...

In a year marked by delays and technical issues, North Carolina school districts are finding creative ways to increase student completions of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) across the state. This year, five school districts (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Guilford County Schools, Iredell-Statesville Schools, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and Union...

The risk of derailment increases with freight train length, according to an academic study published today, which found that a 200-car train is 24% more likely to derail than a 50-car train. The study — by researchers from Brigham Young University, Georgetown University, and Virginia Tech — analyzed Federal Railroad...

Nearly 150,000 policyholders in the state will have to wait almost a year to find out if the cost of their mobile home insurance will increase. The North Carolina Rate Bureau filed April 8 a proposed overall state average increase of 82.9% for mobile home fire policies and 49.9% for...

Vietnamese electric car maker VinFast is looking at further delaying a planned $4 billion factory in North Carolina, a person briefed on the matter said, as the loss-making company struggles to gain favour with U.S. consumers. VinFast announced in 2022 that it would build an EV and battery factory in...

The Charlotte City Council on Tuesday voted 9-1 to approve a new power-sharing agreement with a countywide body, the Metropolitan Transit Commission, to determine how decisions are made about transit funding and leadership. The vote came after the city made last-minute concessions to Mecklenburg County and the six towns represented...

A federal program that provided subsidized internet access to low-income families is expected to end on Friday, affecting more than 900,000 households in North Carolina. Created through the federal 2021 infrastructure law, the Affordable Connectivity Program was touted by the Biden administration as the “largest high-speed internet affordability” initiative in...

Tameka Ford of Cabarrus County said she cries often at night about her housing situation, contemplating moving away. Ford and about 30 others with Down Home North Carolina rallied in support of allocating funds towards affordable housing development ahead of the May 20 county commissioners meeting, where she also spoke...

In August 2021, when a student was shot at New Hanover High School, panic and fear rippled through the community. The shooting was a result of a fight that broke out in the hallway with dozens of students watching. The incident left one student with non-life-threatening injuries that required surgery....

Members of the Durham Association of Educators marched through downtown Durham to a public hearing Tuesday night to call for the Durham County Board of Commissioners to fully fund the school board’s budget request. The Durham Public Schools’ board of education has requested a $27.4 million increase in local school...

Administrators for the Town of Canton have presented a conservative fiscal year 2024-25 budget that seeks some sense of sustainability after last year’s closing of the Pactiv Evergreen paper mill, which created a substantial revenue deficit and has now forced the small town to plan for a huge new expense...

The New Hanover Community Endowment announced it is allocating up to $19 million as part of its affordable housing investment strategy. According to a press release sent out Wednesday morning, the funding will toward existing and future housing programs. “Our investment strategy underscores our unwavering commitment to addressing this challenge...

Hall of Fame college basketball coach Roy Williams says the NCAA is simply reacting rather than having a plan to address last week’s settlement with players that opens the door for athletes to be paid. “Right now what we’re doing is reacting to everything instead of making some plans in...

UNC’s academic year wrapped up with several weeks of contentious demonstrations against the war in Gaza, culminating (but not ending) with a tent encampment that drew a forceful response from campus police. Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the encampment went up on April 26 and lasted through...

Two weeks after the Dare County Commissioners terminated their housing partnership with Coastal Affordable Housing (CAH) and voted to return $35 million in state housing funds, an attorney for CAH principal Jordan Hennessy wrote to Dare Commissioner candidate Katie Morgan accusing her of “false and defamatory statements” and threatening litigation...