A former member of the Guilford County Board of Education who lost his appointed seat last year in a partisan legal dispute said he has collected enough signatures to qualify as an unaffiliated candidate for the fall general election. Bill Goebel needs at least 2,132 signatures from registered voters in...

Federal health officials are investigating whether exposure to hazardous materials at a pair of Triangle-area university buildings could have caused cancer among employees. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating N.C. State’s Poe Hall and UNC Health’s McLendon Laboratories to determine whether there is an increased risk...

A new joint venture plans to spend $60 million and add 133 jobs for a production facility in Liberty that will make parts for electronic vehicle batteries. FTBC, a joint venture between Fujihatsu Tech America and Toyota Tsusho America, will make and sell prismatic aluminum cell cases and cell covers...

During its quarterly meeting and retreat, the Duke University Board of Trustees elected Duke alumnus and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to serve as the board’s next chair, succeeding Laurene Sperling. Silver’s three-year term will begin July 1. A member of the Board of Trustees since 2015, Silver has served as...

Macy’s will close 150 unproductive namesake stores over the next three years including 50 by year-end, the department store operator said Tuesday after posting a fourth-quarter loss and declining sales. As part of the strategy, Macy’s aims to upgrade its remaining 350 stores, with plans to add more salespeople to...

Food access. Housing. Education. Job security. Climate change. These and other nonmedical factors that shape where people are born, live and work have become known as social determinants of health. And though they are not related to the health care system, they arguably have an even bigger impact on people’s...

Several Fayetteville-area Republicans have created a new political action committee to recruit and promote conservative candidates they consider to be of high quality after Republican former mayoral candidate Franco Webb was caught lying in 2022 about his military service and now has pending felony fraud charges. Their PAC, the Independent...

Saint Augustine’s University learned on Tuesday that its accreditation appeal was denied. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission’s [SACSCOC] Appeals Committee upheld the board’s decision to revoke accreditation for the Raleigh-based school, which has struggled with financial management issues. The appeals committee listed several reasons to uphold the...

Former New Hanover County Commissioner Julia Olson-Boseman will not face criminal charges regarding allegations against her from 2021. An investigation was conducted by the financial crimes unit of the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys. District Attorney Ben David requested the unit look into the case, citing a conflict of...

Haywood County ranks in the top five most popular counties for trout fishing in North Carolina, which contributes $1.38 billion annually to the state’s economy, according to a comprehensive study that analyzed the economic impact of trout fishing. The newly-released study was developed by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission....

The proxy battle that activist investor Ancora Holdings is waging against Norfolk Southern isn’t just about the direction NS should take and who should run the company. It’s a fight for the future of the railroad industry. The Cleveland-based activist investor seems to be taking the position that railroads shouldn’t...

Wilsonians are again reaching into their wallets to raise cash to abolish medical debt for folks they don’t even know. Father Paul Castelli, rector at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Wilson, is leading the Easter Medical Debt Jubilee for the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina’s Rocky Mount Convocation. The campaign...

A complaint filed by the chair of the Henderson County Democratic Party alleges Western North Carolina Congressman Chuck Edwards (R-Henderson) violated United States Code and U.S. House of Representatives rules by mailing “hyper-partisan” fliers, thus abusing his congressional franking privilege. “It is my opinion that Congressman Edwards knew or should...

The black-and-white ad that launched Mike Morgan’s campaign for governor last fall generated lots of buzz. Produced over two weeks for $60,000, the ad begins with footage of an actor portraying Morgan as a child, in his Sunday best and a bowtie, entering a schoolhouse in New Bern, where he...

Three North Carolina legislators said they are interested in revisiting the state law that gives special privileges to hospital authorities such as Atrium Health, noting that today’s multibillion-dollar hospital systems are nothing like the ones lawmakers had in mind when the law was written. The hospital authorities act was written...