A pair of dueling lawsuits between the city of Sanford and a developer were recently settled with the city agreeing to pay Nick Jordan $60,000 over the nearly 5-acre Singer property at 171 N. First St. According to a press release from Friday, Aug. 9, the city came to an...

North Carolina has confirmed four storm-related fatalities from Tropical Storm Debby, Justin Graney, the communications chief for North Carolina Emergency Management told Carolina Public Press on Monday morning. The deaths resulted from a tornado in Wilson County, a falling tree in Rockingham County, a motor vehicle collision in Wake County...

In response to a new policy passed in May by the UNC system Board of Governors (BoG), UNC Charlotte announced changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and offices, including many closings and reassignments. The changes were announced to the campus community in an Aug. 8 email from...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can remain on North Carolina’s presidential ballots after a state judge on Monday refused to block printing his name and those of other candidates of the “We the People” party that was recently certified by the State Board of Elections. Wake County Superior Court Judge Keith...

Should high-density development and multi-story apartment complexes be restricted in certain neighborhoods of Waynesville? That’s the hot-button question Waynesville’s town council pledged to look into 16 months ago following public backlash over the rash of apartments and townhomes being permitted in neighborhoods. But after a handshake agreement between the town...

The Pender County Board of Education took up several items of note last week, including approval of high school parking fund budgets that sparked critique from one board member. Brent Springer motioned to delay approval of the parking fee budgets, which he dubbed a “slush fund,” of Pender County’s three...

Organizers of a proposed charter school have purchased a site in High Point for their start-up location. Lingua Vista Education Foundation, LLC of Clemmons last week acquired 2.13 acres at 622 E. Lexington Ave., where it intends to operate a “multi-language immersion” school, according to its website and social media...

The contentious court battle over a North Carolina textile fortune between descendants of a storied N.C. textile family and Charlotte’s largest hospital system is over. And it ended with a new beneficiary being named. Atrium Health and the family of one-time owners of Kannapolis-based Cannon Mills Co. settled their dispute...

It has been little over a year since Martin County, a rural community of 22,000 in eastern North Carolina, lost its hospital. Martin General served generations of local families during its seven-decade run in Williamston, the county’s seat of government. People born at the hospital returned to witness the births...

More than 1.5 million workers, or roughly 28% of the workforce in North Carolina, make less than $17 per hour, according to new data from Oxfam. The national average is 23.2%, and the study argues that North Carolina’s decision to not raise the minimum wage has held its number back....

Developer Donahue Peebles III had a tough job last week. Peebles, an executive with the Florida-based Peebles Corp., had to tell Mecklenburg commissioners why construction hadn’t started on the $700 million Brooklyn Village project, eight years after his firm was chosen by the county to develop the 17-acre site. He...

Last year’s legislative session included multiple new laws that changed the process for how charter schools are approved, renewed, and denied in North Carolina. These new laws are part of a recent focus by North Carolina Republican lawmakers to expand school choice, through both private schools and charters, which are...

Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course” before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy. When the 25-year-old...

Last summer, stop signs were targeted. This summer, people. The culprits who spurred an increase in complaints and 911 calls in July on Bald Head Island were not solely teenagers, but village officials are exploring ways in which juveniles — and their parents or guardians — might be held accountable...

North Carolina Central University is one of 14 higher education institutions and government agencies in the U.S. contributing to NASA’s next space telescope known as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Duke University is the project’s lead. According to Diane Markoff, NCCU’s physics professor, N.C. Central is the only HBCU...