The academic year is over at UNC, but tensions remain high after several weeks of contentious demonstrations against the war in Gaza Amidst all of those concerns, UNC Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts stopped by 97.9 The Hill last week for a wide-ranging conversation with Aaron Keck. Aaron Keck: Let’s go...

Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, says he’s a fan of using public money to help parents pay private school tuition. He has watched the voucher movement grow over the last 30 years, starting in the early 1990s as an alternative to public schools in a...

Scott Lindsay, the former attorney for the Cherokee County Department of Social Services who was tied to that agency’s use of fake legal documents to unlawfully remove children from their families over several years, has been convicted of obstruction of justice in relation to those cases. Lindsay’s trial took place...

Approximately 700,000 vehicles are stolen each year in the U.S. Around 40% of those vehicles are stolen right off of car lots and that number’s going up. “They were driving around scouting us out. They knew where everything was,” says Wayne Dubois, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sport...

A Republican primary runoff for a North Carolina congressional district on Tuesday could demonstrate yet again the strong influence former President Donald Trump has on GOP politics across the country. Voters will choose between attorneys Kelly Daughtry and Brad Knott in the runoff for the reconfigured 13th Congressional District. Daughtry...

Environmental organizations are seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by a North Carolina commercial seafood business operator that they contend seeks to virtually eliminate remaining federal wetlands protections that were dramatically scaled back last year. The Southern Environmental Law Center said Wednesday it had filed in the U.S....

No payroll. No receipts. No bills or invoices. Lacking any supporting documentation, James Freeman, president of the Emerging Technology Institute, nonetheless asked the Town of Red Springs to reimburse him $1.1 million in state taxpayer funds for “service, salaries and goods” related to his military training center and STEM education...

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has pulled a pair of incentives hearings set for its meeting Thursday so state officials can keep conversing with the economic development prospects without having to publicly release details at this point. Last week the commissioners issued public notices that they were considering economic...

Residents living near one of the three golf courses in Waynesville can sleep in an extra hour without the hum of lawn mowers after Waynesville town council put new limits on the hours of operation of lawn equipment last month. Waynesville’s noise ordinance allows lawn maintenance activity to commence at...

Robbins Elementary School is unique within Moore County, in that its student population is over 50 percent Hispanic, and 28 percent require English as a second language (ESL) services. Additionally, the school maintains the county’s lone dual-language immersion program. But a recent district performance study analyzing student achievement metrics —...

The New Hanover County Board of Education struck down two options for legal counsel, choosing to stick with Charlotte-based Vogel Law Firm until the end of June. The board created a committee in February to look at other options for legal counsel after board members expressed concern that Vogel Law...

The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to divert millions of dollars spent on diversity, equity and inclusion programs into public safety instead, ahead of an expected policy change statewide to restrict DEI. At a special meeting Monday morning, the board unanimously moved to reallocate the $2.3 million that the...

Martin Redeker and Joe Carroll spent more than five years toiling in a windowless steel barn in Duplin County, perfecting a low- to no-emissions technology they said would transform how hog waste could be used to generate electricity. Such was the faith in the project that Montauk Renewables, a publicly...

Jim Phillips has come to a halt. For 30 minutes, his hectic professional life has been paused for piety. Hands clasped in front of him, posture perfect and body absolutely still, it is time to pray. The commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference has fled the bustle of men’s basketball...

From SouthPark to Steele Creek, Mountain Island Lake to Waxhaw, sleek and efficient freestanding emergency rooms are springing up across the Charlotte region to serve patients, no hospital required. Since 2010, Atrium Health has opened eight standalone emergency rooms in the Charlotte metro area, part of a nationwide building boom....