The head of the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association sent a letter to the Charlotte City Council Monday urging them not to consider using taxes dedicated for tourism to pay for things the group doesn’t consider tourism-specific. The taxes on hotel rooms, as well as prepared food and beverages...

The past half year has seen a steady stream of disturbing reports about serious human rights abuses tied to industrial fishing. First came a long expose about forced labor at sea tied to hundreds of Chinese fishing ships that supply many of the biggest restaurant and grocery store chains in...

Marines are famously meticulous about their uniforms. Think of those ads with the Few and the Proud snapping to attention in perfect dress blues. But for more than a year, a shortage of several types of clothing — especially everyday camouflage tops — has meant Marines haven’t been able to...

Across the country, the pandemic highlighted and exacerbated mental health challenges — particularly among youth. In response, many states and school districts prioritized putting federal COVID-19 dollars toward mental health initiatives. More than half of North Carolina districts and charter schools collectively spent nearly $45.9 million on psychologists and mental/physical...

A rezoning request up for consideration at Tuesday’s town council meeting was recommended by planning and zoning board members with two people from the board having business ties to the applicant. Yet, neither were required to recuse themselves from voting. At the April 9 meeting, Carolina Beach Town Council will...

Key federal lawmakers Sunday unveiled a sweeping proposal that would for the first time give consumers broad rights to control how tech companies like Google, Meta and TikTok use their personal data, a major breakthrough in the decades-long fight to adopt national online privacy protections. The bipartisan agreement, struck by...

UNC’s interim Chancellor Lee Roberts made an impromptu appearance at the TransparUNCy Teach-In: Part 2 event in the Student Union on Thursday evening. The teach-in was planned to discuss the past, present and future actions of powerful stakeholders in North Carolina who control higher education in the state, such as...

When Tammy Crowder’s phone rang late one evening in February 2018, her eldest sister, Joy, sounded panicked. Their mother, Cleveland Hager, had slipped and fallen on her side, injuring her leg. Unable to stand, Hager crawled from the hallway to her bedroom in search of a phone to call for...

The Biden administration is pushing China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to U.S. jobs, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday after ending four days of talks with Chinese officials. She also said she and Chinese officials had “difficult conversations” about national security, including American concerns that...

Two incidents in Salisbury in the past week have raised questions around juvenile justice in the aftermath of “Raise the Age” legislature, passed in 2017 and amended further in the following years. On Tuesday, two juveniles were detained after leading police on a chase through the city in a stolen...

Tell the public about a contract to buy land? This isn’t business as usual for the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. But this time around, the prospective buy is a 150-acre tract of barrier island that has been written about in media outlets across the state and, on occasion, in...

On the morning of March 14, Erik Zitser, librarian for Slavic, Eurasian and East European studies and adjunct assistant professor in the department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, received a phone call from a reporter asking what he thought about his inclusion on a list of U.S. citizens sanctioned by...

Plans are moving ahead for a Wilmington-area company slated to become the first tenant in New Hanover County’s Blue Clay Business Park. Coastal Millwork Supply Co. is looking to build a more than 62,000-square-foot facility on roughly 5.5 acres inside the county-owned industrial park. The proposed building is scheduled to...

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights Division is looking into allegations that a child with disabilities has been repeatedly harassed and assaulted by another child in the Exceptional Children’s Program at Mina Charter School. The investigation is the result of a complaint filed on behalf of R.H.,...

Close to 100 people showed up to hear Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent David Hallac report on Buxton Beach Access petroleum contamination and remnant infrastructure now showing up due to beach erosion. The meeting was held in the Fessenden Center gymnasium in Buxton. The tiered seats were almost full and...