On paper, Michele Morrow didn’t look like an Election Day threat. The Republican candidate for state superintendent didn’t have a career in education, let alone experience as a public school parent in North Carolina. The homeschool mom regularly spoke out against public schools, calling them “indoctrination centers,” urging parents not...

A concrete plaque with the Fireman’s Prayer etched in black letters sits at the base of a flag pole hoisting the American flag in front of Chapel Hill’s White Cross Fire Station #1. The first paragraph reads: “When I am called to duty, God, wherever flames may rage, give me...

The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC) recently announced the first full-time director for the NC Center on the Workforce for Health (the Center). Andy MacCrackken joined the team in February and will help lead the Center in their efforts to tackle North Carolina’s health care workforce challenges....

A Charlotte private school that gets North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship money but didn’t seem to have a location lists a new address in Cabarrus County. After checking seven previous addresses for Teaching Achieving Students Academy with no sign of a school, I found a small group of students working at...

Haywood County commissioners got an overview this week on the county’s efforts to expand broadband, and it was a glowing report. One of the board’s top goals for the past few years has been expanding high-speed internet access across the county. Monday’s report showed 75% of the households in the...

Months after a couple withdrew their rezoning request to build on an ecologically vulnerable Topsail property, residents are pushing to enshrine long-term environmental protections in the town’s regulations. Nonprofit Conserve the Point formed last year to fight against Todd and Laura Olson’s conditional rezoning application to develop around 20 acres...

The Democratic attorney general and the Republican lieutenant governor won North Carolina’s primaries for governor on Tuesday, setting the stage for what will be an expensive and high-stakes November contest in a state that the two parties see as a pivotal battleground. Josh Stein and Mark Robinson, each of whom...

With 100% of precincts reporting, Michele Morrow won the Republican primary election of the superintendent of public instruction with 455,245 votes — 52%. Morrow ran against incumbent Superintendent Catherine Truitt. Morrow is a wife and mom, nurse and homeschool teacher According to her campaign website, Morrow describes herself as a...

Longtime pastor Mark Harris completed a political comeback Tuesday, five years after his earlier win was thrown out in a fraud-tainted race that ended up being one of the only congressional do-overs in U.S. history. Harris appeared to squeak out a victory, with 30.44% of votes cast — just above...

A Wilmington business is being sued for copyright infringement by a nationally known organization that alleges the establishment has been playing protected musical works for its customers without permission. According to a news release from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP, Bull City Ciderworks at 615...

For more than a decade, poultry farmers across the U.S. and North Carolina fought for financial protections from the big agriculture companies that they not only rely on but sometimes fear. Less than a month after those protections went into effect, some members of Congress and agricultural trade groups are...

Once Pactiv Evergreen’s Canton paper mill shut down for good, people wondered how the Pigeon River and the aquatic life it supports would change. While the results have been promising with several species seeming to thrive, there is still plenty of room for improvement. Concerns have grown over what the...

Report for America, which has sent hundreds of journalists to buttress shrinking newsrooms, is phasing out its relationships with hedge fund-owned properties — a reviled group that includes some of the country’s largest newspaper companies. The pullout is the culmination of a two-year estrangement with the McClatchy Co., which severed...

The town of Matthews pulled the plug on Zoom comments Tuesday after last week’s meeting drew a handful of people who connected remotely to make antisemitic, homophobic and otherwise bigoted remarks. Mayor John Higdon was out of town last week. He said he has heard the remote speakers described as...

The resignation of Greensboro City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba on Tuesday, March 5 is puzzling. The City Council is mute about why Jaiyeoba resigned. When asked why Jaiyeoba resigned, Mayor Nancy Vaughan said, “It was a personal decision.” When asked if it was related to the domestic violence incident at Jaiyeoba’s...