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...

The University of North Carolina Wilmington Blue Economy Index is live on Bloomberg terminals as of last month, according to Richard Keary, an advisor on the project. The UNCW team that built the index announced the news on LinkedIn Wednesday, after learning from its calculation agent INDXX that the index...

The Roxboro coal-fired plant has been a key power generator since 1966. It’s slated to close within a decade, forcing the utility to seek new energy sources. A windblown hill of coal ash on the shore of Person County’s Hyco Lake may seem like an odd place from which to...

In the past 15 years, two New Hanover County representatives introduced legislation aiming to strengthen North Carolina’s free speech protections — but for unclear reasons, the bills never made it out of initial committees. North Carolina is one of 17 states without an anti-SLAPP law, an acronym for strategic litigation...

As many states struggle with workforce shortages across the health care industry, there’s a national effort to give dentists and dental hygienists more authority to work in multiple states without going through a time-consuming licensure process in each one. Two licensing compacts are being floated, one by the Council of...

Forsyth Technical Community College is working to improve how student parents access child care on campus. The two-year college is part of a new coalition called the Child Care for Student Parents Cohort. The cohort is led by New America, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. Iris Palmer, the...