Lee County is one of the two fastest-growing markets for services provided by FirstHealth of the Carolinas. Mickey Foster, a Lee native and FirstHealth CEO, gave a brief overview of the not-for-profit health-care system based in Pinehurst at the Sanford Area Growth Alliance at Monday’s Public Policy Luncheon. FirstHealth of...

Perhaps no road project in the Asheville region has been talked about longer than the I-26 Connector, a billion-dollar-plus behemoth designed to connect I-26 north of Asheville to I-26 south of town. So when Rob Sheeran bought his three-bedroom, two-bath home in West Asheville two decades ago, he knew one...

Campaign disclosure reports related to Tuesday’s primary election are still flowing in. Unfortunately, some candidates and groups are hiding their activities by capitalizing on our weak election laws or simply ignoring the deadlines for filing reports. Here are a few stories revealed in the reports that supplement my previous NC...

“Follow the money”—and you expect to find some answers. But in the cases of the campaign finance stories from NC Senate District 22 incumbent Mike Woodard and challenger Sophia Chitlik, there are no simple answers. Voters in northern, central and eastern Durham will decide in the March 5 primary which...

North Carolinians are heading to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the primary election and usually start seeing results on election night immediately after polls close at 7:30 p.m. But this year, people will have to wait longer than usual for results. Due to changes in state law, a...

Social worker Symone Kiddoo stands on a picnic table, grasping a bullhorn as she calls out to a crowd of teachers and school staff at a protest in January. They are gathered to protest outside the Durham Public Schools’ staff development center, on what is scheduled to be a school...

The Army plans to cut 32,000 jobs while making room for another 7,500, it announced this week. In a report that was released Tuesday, officials said they will phase out positions that are either unfilled or tied to previous counterinsurgency missions. The reports states the planned reductions are for job...

Hundreds of higher education leaders across the country gathered virtually on Feb. 28-29 for a dual enrollment conference hosted by several North Carolina agencies — the N.C. Community College System (NCCCS), the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI), the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Early College Research Center, and...

Almost two dozen staff members didn’t show up for work Monday at a Carrboro middle school after a student threatened staff members last week. A spokesperson for the district told WRAL News 23 staff members were absent Monday, but some absences were unrelated to last week’s threat. “I’m writing to...

For most people, electricity is as simple as flipping a switch. They don’t give much thought to the process that brought the electricity into their home. But for employees at the Brunswick Nuclear Plant, the process of making, harnessing, and delivering electricity is top of mind. Located just two miles...

A barren, 42-acre site of the Swannanoa community’s once-famous blanket manufacturer will begin to see new life later this year as a multi-use park that could, in years to come, form the heart of new commercial and residential development, say a group of local entrepreneurs who shared their vision with...

Former President Donald Trump described the sinking sensation he felt watching swing states such as Pennsylvania and Georgia called for his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, during the 2020 election. “All of a sudden, bomb,” Trump said of the Pennsylvania results during a wide-ranging speech in Greensboro on Saturday. “Another one,...

Proposed new casinos in North Carolina have become a key issue in a Republican primary in Nash County. Yvonne McLeod is challenging first-term incumbent Rep. Allen Chesser, R-Nash, for a House seat representing the Rocky Mount area. McLeod, an educator who was born in Jamaica, lost to Chesser in the...

The North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force on Thursday approved its recommendations for the legislative short session, including increasing state investments in child care. The session, which starts in April, comes just months before the state’s child care programs run out of federal stabilization funding at the end of June...

Though he’s only been on the job a month, the city of High Point’s new economic development director said it’s clear to him that he walked into a good situation. Peter Bishop said he has plenty of selling points to work with when he’s recruiting businesses to the city. “The...