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...

Lawyers for Buncombe County government want to sue the owner of Mission Hospital for $3 million, saying leaders “intentionally understaffed” the ER forcing delays in ambulance drop-offs and extra costs to taxpayers. The county on Wednesday filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit filed in December by North Carolina...

Advocates for Umstead State Park in Raleigh are calling for a new survey of the park. The Umstead Coalition says they’ve discovered a surveying error made in 1976 that wrongly included 14 acres of park land with an adjacent property purchased by the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority. Umstead Park itself was...

The teacher turnover rates for Guilford County Schools and North Carolina soared in 2023 from the previous year, and 1 in 9 educators left the profession statewide, according to the newest state report. But in both cases, that only matches the national average for teacher turnover, and the state’s school...

A group of county residents have retained legal counsel to request Attorney General Josh Stein hold a public hearing to address their concerns about the New Hanover Community Endowment. On April 29, Heal Our People’s Endowment posted a petition expressing concerns about mismanagement, leadership changes, and the lack of transparency...