Ahead of Vice President Harris traveling to North Carolina again this week, President Biden’s campaign announced Tuesday it’s expanding its staff in the Tar Heel State, a key battleground in 2024. The campaign is bringing on Harrison Peel as deputy campaign manager, state Sen. Natalie Murdock as political and coalitions...

In the 2024 North Carolina primary elections, 1,647 ballots were not counted because voters either didn’t have a photo ID or didn’t return their absentee ballots by the deadline, according to data that Carolina Public Press requested from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Elections were finalized and the...

County commissioners did not decide the fate of Port City United, the county’s violence intervention program, on Monday, despite two commissioners’ distaste for it. The program is in the spotlight after a PCU supervisor was arrested in connection to a Houston Moore shooting that took place March 21. New Hanover...

According to information sent from Guilford County Emergency Services Director Jim Albright to the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, the Emergency Services Department has been unable to get all the auto chassis it needs – which are used to build emergency vehicles by adding the box unit on top of...

More than 75 percent of visitors to Haywood County are making return trips, and about that same percentage rank their visit very highly, according to surveys sent out by the Tourism Development Authority. Some 1,100 visitors answered the survey, designed to address questions regarding their spending, attractions, chosen activities and...

UNC Asheville has selected Yvonne Villanueva-Russell for the position of provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, effective July 1. The UNC Asheville Board of Trustees Executive and Governance Committee unanimously approved her selection on March 28, following a nationwide search that began in December 2023. Villanueva-Russell will succeed...

Project Kitty Hawk, named for the town near the Outer Banks site of the Wright Brothers’ historic first flight, has nothing to do with aviation. It’s the brainchild of University of North Carolina System leaders, a new education technology nonprofit designed to help UNC campuses run online degree programs for...

When children with severe mood or behavior disorders require intense therapeutic care, they can end up in one of the state’s two dozen psychiatric residential treatment facilities. Operators of these facilities, commonly known as PRTFs, say they stabilize children and provide trauma-informed care that lets them return to their communities...

Two decades ago, a group of senior-housing executives came up with a way to raise revenue and reduce costs at assisted-living homes. Using stopwatches, they timed caregivers performing various tasks, from making beds to changing soiled briefs, and fed the information into a program they began using to determine staffing....

A new economic model from North Carolina researchers suggests that tax incentives for high income property owners and federal subsidies for beach nourishment projects continue to increase coastal property prices, despite growing climate risks from sea level rise. “Wealthier and wealthier people continue to move into these [coastal] communities. And...

A project in the works will change the ways rail travels in Wilmington, including closing some crossings and making improvements to new ones. The changes will be made to the existing 13-mile CSX rail line, commonly referred to as the “beltline”; it’s the only active track through the city. The...

Plans for the state’s first recreational marijuana sales are on hold as the Eastern Band of Cherokee announces their marijuana dispensary will only sell medical marijuana during its grand opening. The Great Smoky Cannabis Company dispensary will be the first in the state. A joint statement issued by tribal leadership...

As they walked down East Moore Street in Southport, Jacques and Marie Tremblay were having an animated conversation that anyone who isn’t from North Carolina probably has had at one time or another when contemplating grabbing an iced tea: sweet or unsweet? The Canadian snowbirds from just outside Montreal, Quebec,...

The Circle K located off U.S. Highway 264 on Raleigh Road Parkway West is getting some major upgrades with its full renovation, including 24 electric vehicle charging stations and the restaurant Krystal. Robbie Craft, regional category manager for Circle K, said the 24-vehicle charging station will be the largest supercharging...

When the North Carolina Education Lottery Commission met last week, the focus was largely on how lucrative mobile sports betting had been since its March 11th launch. What received less attention was how lottery tickets were performing. Total sales through the first seven months of the fiscal year were down...