Sep 11 Watch 10:40 ‘This storm is a monster’: Carolinas brace for Hurricane Florence By P. J. Tobia As of Tuesday evening, Hurricane Florence is 500 miles wide, winds at 140 miles an hour and forecasts of 2.5 feet of rain. Power losses and flooding will be felt over several states, and the recovery is predicted to be… Continue watching
Sep 10 How Hurricane Florence could cause unprecedented damage to the Carolinas By Nsikan Akpan, Julia Griffin A week ago, no one expected Hurricane Florence to roll into the Southeast, and now it may create storm surge taller than a house. Continue reading
Aug 28 North Carolina’s congressional map still unlawful with partisan bias, judges rule By Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press Federal judges on Monday affirmed their earlier decision striking North Carolina's congressional districts as unconstitutional because Republicans drew them with excessive partisanship. Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch 4:47 This restaurant takeout service swaps styrofoam for sustainable By Teresa Carey After big cities like San Francisco banned businesses from using styrofoam containers, a woman from Durham, North Carolina, who was fed up with the plastic trash began her own crusade. When her efforts toward passing a local ban failed, she… Continue watching
Jul 20 Republicans pick Charlotte to host 2020 convention By Steve Peoples, Associated Press Move over, Las Vegas. The Republican Party will host its 2020 presidential nominating convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Continue reading
Jun 25 Supreme Court won’t hear North Carolina districting dispute By Associated Press The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on a new case on partisan redistricting for now. Instead, the justices are sending a dispute over North Carolina's heavily Republican congressional districting map back to a lower court for more work. Continue reading
Jun 18 Supreme Court justices sidestep a definitive ruling in two redistricting cases By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Supreme Court is resolving partisan redistricting cases from Wisconsin and Maryland without ruling on the broader issue of whether electoral maps can give an unfair advantage to a political party. Continue reading
May 02 N.C. Democratic Party files complaint against Sen. Tillis, state GOP over work by Cambridge Analytica By Associated Press Cambridge Analytica, the British-based firm that supposedly improperly used data from tens of millions of Facebook users to influence the 2016 presidential race for Donald Trump, was also paid by the Tillis campaign and the state GOP for work in… Continue reading
Apr 28 Land deal will preserve site linked to Lost Colony mystery By Martha Waggoner, Associated Press The 16th century English colonists who vanished after being left in the New World have piqued popular imagination and intrigued historians for centuries. Continue reading
Jan 24 Finding a complete dolphin skeleton to study isn’t easy, unless you have a dolphin graveyard By Rashmi Shivni, Teresa Carey This dolphin and whale graveyard may hold the secrets to cetacean lifestyles. Continue reading