North Carolina state superintendent candidate Michele Morrow has made protecting students central to her campaign. The Republican home-school mother running to oversee the state’s public school system has assembled a 10-person school safety advisory board, pledged to rid schools of pedophiles and vowed to address gun violence by putting in...

If there is a hurricane on the Outer Banks that renders Hatteras Island’s only highway impassable, the emergency channel between the island at Rodanthe to the Dare County mainland at Stumpy Point currently would not be accessible for ferries to provide supplies or evacuations. “This needs to be very clear...

Growing up in land-locked Oklahoma, learning to swim wasn’t a high priority in Rebecca Pearson-Yates’ household. Nonetheless, the Greensboro mother of five made sure her children took lessons. Her youngest daughter, who will be 5 next month, started classes at the YMCA in the spring. “It’s just necessary in order...

The sky was blue and the temperature in the low 80s, balmy for the Cape Fear region, the day Sheriff Ennis Wright fired the shot heard ’round the county. Via letter dated May 21, 2024, Wright informed local government officials that the Sheriff’s Office would not be able to provide...

Republican lawmakers and the governor would appoint board members to help make decisions on managing Charlotte’s buses, light rail and streetcar, according to a draft of a bill that would create a new transit authority in Mecklenburg County. The authority would replace the Charlotte Area Transit System, which is a...

Last year, state lawmakers spent about $2 billion to fix aging water and sewer infrastructure in small towns across North Carolina. But some towns were left out of the spending plan, and this year’s budget impasse will keep them waiting even longer. One of them is the tiny town of...

Elected officials, local business owners and directors of environmental nonprofits and organizations convened in a Tuesday meeting with a common goal: advocating for more PFAS regulation in the Cape Fear. On Tuesday, the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental nonprofit focused on environmental conservation and confronting pollution, held a virtual...

North Carolina’s elections board certified unanimously on Tuesday a right-leaning political party to field candidates this fall in the state, but again deferred final action for two organizations that collected signatures to help get Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West on the presidential ballot. The Constitution Party of North...

Near the end of the recently recessed legislative session, the N.C. House of Representatives made an extensive budget proposal on how to spend part of the funds received by North Carolina as part of a nationwide settlement over the marketing of opioid drugs. North Carolina will receive $750 million of...

Shawn Benjamin lives in Raleigh and describes himself as a “foodie,” eating out an average of three times per week. “There’s a lot of nice places in Raleigh,” he said. “I’m always hungry … always trying to get something to eat.” However, many Raleigh residents are seeing their options drop...

Western North Carolina’s regional DWI taskforce has renewed its push to pass several new drunk-driving bills into law during next year’s long session in Raleigh. The bills were discussed at a meeting in May at the Waynesville Police Department headed up by WNC DWI Taskforce Director Ellen Pitt. A variety...

In a community on one end of Chatham County, a major development project is quickly progressing — in another, a symbol from the past is creating debate around its future. While the county is seeing the Wolfspeed manufacturing plant outside of Siler City continue to come out of the ground,...

The town of Stanley has adopted a public records policy that charges a special service fee for access to public records that take time to produce. The new policy, which was approved at a City Council meeting on June 25, will charge $18 an hour service fee for any time...

Local residents and many visitors to Chapel Hill and Carrboro know the towns have a reputation for downtown parking being difficult to find sometimes. While the local governments each have a new parking deck expected to come online later this year, it is not unusual to see people try to...

The name of Gov. Roy Cooper has come up among a handful of state governors as a replacement on the Democratic ticket if President Joe Biden decides not to run, according to recent reports. Carolina Public Press interviewed analysts to understand the likelihood of Gov. Cooper being selected, if the...