The Greater Fayetteville Business Journal The United States Senate recently voted to approve a transfer of approximately 20 acres of Fort Bragg land to the state of North Carolina to build a new Veterans home in Fayetteville. “North Carolina boasts the fourth-largest military presence in the nation and is the...

Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States, but it might be even more of a problem than we thought. A new report from NPR and Boston University suggests that the average number of heat-related deaths in North Carolina each year is almost 18...

Desiree Mathurin/The Charlotte Observer More housing is coming to south Charlotte’s Ballantyne neighborhood. And it’s near the long-awaited Wegmans. Site work has begun on a 476-unit development off of North Community House Road, near Upper Avenue and Interstate 485, according to Kyle Whitaker, a development partner at Northwood Ravin. The...

Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville’s hands may be permanently tied when it comes to regulating the growing number of large developments coming to town, according to a report from the town attorney. Councilmember Jon Feichter asked Town Attorney Martha Bradley last month to draft a narrow legal opinion on what...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC News Nearly 75% of school districts in N.C. report they don’t have a sustainable funding source to maintain their fleet of computers, including student devices like Chromebooks. North Carolina public schools collectively spent more than $6.6 million last school year to repair broken computers. That’s according to a...

Jonathan Lowe/WSOC News The new chairman of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education pleaded guilty to one count, which was count 39, for conspiracy to commit mail, bank, and wire fraud in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme, a Channel 9 investigation found. The discovery comes as the school board faces...

Randall Kerr & Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News North Carolina has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars trying to modernize the computer system that helps run the state’s Medicaid program — an overhaul intended to improve care, pay healthcare providers faster and give the state better tools to detect waste and...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a construction permit Tuesday for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Tennessee – the first permit issued in the U.S. for the construction of the technology developed by GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH). The federal agency issued the permit to...

David N. Bass/The Carolina Journal School finance officers told a state commission on Sept. 28 that they routinely assign employees to whichever budget the state will pay for, and that even then they send unspent teacher money back to Raleigh. The House’s top K-12 lawmaker, one of the legislators who...

Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A drop in crime points to efforts made to improve safety and security on Charlotte’s light rail, but a new state audit shows the system still has much work to be done. The Charlotte Area Transit System, notably the light rail, has come under increasing scrutiny...

Jill Doss-Raines/The High Point Enterprise A month after a tied vote on the issue, the Davidson County Board of Commissioners moved Monday night toward enacting a temporary pause on data centers. The commissioners approved setting a public hearing for Oct. 26 on a four-month moratorium. The 4-2 vote, with newly...

Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville’s road to recovery since Helene has been riddled with potholes of bureaucracy. A handful of claims have been trapped in a maze of red tape — delayed, lost, denied, appealed, denied again. “They would lose our paperwork, and one person would tell us one thing...

Molly Steur/EducationNC One of the goals of the North Carolina Division of Social Services (DSS) is to prevent children from coming into foster care, according to their 2020-24 Final Annual Services and Progress Report, through several targeted statewide efforts. DSS research shows there is an enormous need for foster care...

Amy Snively/The Daily Tar Heel Last week, North Carolina’s bright blue helmets descended into Death Valley to take on the Clemson Tigers. Every time the ball was snapped, the offensive line clashed with the pass rush. One set of 300-pound bodies colliding with another. Wide receivers didn’t get hit quite...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC News The hiring of a transgender teacher at a Wake County elementary school has drawn national attention and heated comments at school board meetings. Some parents want to take their children out of the teacher’s class and say they weren’t given that option. They are threatening to sue...