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The Assembly Network Wins 8 Green Eyeshade Awards
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (296+ words) The Assembly Network had a successful run in this year’s Green Eyeshade Awards, recognizing the best work from across the South. Our teams in the Triangle, Greensboro, and statewide won a total of eight awards for stories published in 2025. Now…...
The Trill of the Chase
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (1798+ words) I step onto a stage in Kawasaki, Japan, and walk to a microphone. When I hear my name, I remove a pitch pipe from my pocket and sound an F#, the starting note for my arrangement of Mozart’s “Eine kleine…...
Berger-Page Election Fight Cost $13.6 Million
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (826+ words) Republican state Senate leader Phil Berger spent a staggering sum on his unsuccessful reelection bid earlier this year. Berger’s campaign and outside groups supporting him spent more than $12.6 million trying to fend off Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page ahead of…...
N.C. Community College System Taps Longtime Louisiana Leader for Top Job
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (585+ words) The North Carolina Community College System has chosen the former leader of Louisiana’s community colleges as its next president, which the search committee dubbed the Tar Heel State’s “most important job.” Monty Sullivan will serve as acting president at first,…...
Defense Department Picks UNC-Chapel Hill as New Partner After Dumping Ivy League
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (380+ words) This story is republished from NOTUS. The Defense Department this week announced UNC-Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech as the newest hosts of a reworked educational program for service members, a decision that came after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut ties…...
Dukes in Trump’s Court
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (1757+ words) Here’s a list of six people who attended Duke University between 1997 and 2007: “It feels like there are a lot of Duke alums” in Washington, said Paul Teller, a political consultant who worked in the White House in Trump’s first term....
‘I’m Coming Clean’: Former UNC-CH Chancellor Says He Advised Against Investing in SpaceX
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (781+ words) Stories That Matter. Stories Shaping North Carolina. In the late 2000s, when Holden Thorp, then UNC-Chapel Hill’s chancellor, heard about the UNC Management Company’s plans to put more of the system’s endowment into SpaceX, he couldn’t believe it. “Are you guys…...
The Billion-Dollar Election That Hasn’t Happened
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (708+ words) The U.S. Senate race between Democrat Roy Cooper and Republican Michael Whatley was supposed to be a record-breaking barnburner. Ali-Frazier comes to North Carolina. Or, for a more local comparison, Coach K v. Dean Smith. Longtime Republican political consultant Paul Shumaker predicted…...
Durham Energy Company Accused of Fraud Files for Bankruptcy
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (975+ words) American Efficient, a Durham-based energy efficiency business facing more than $1 billion in federal fines and repayments for allegedly manipulating electricity markets, has filed for bankruptcy protection, court filings show. The filing comes three months after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…...
Blowing Off Balloons
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (1295+ words) Kristin Martin of Kill Devil Hills was fed up when she spotted several Mylar “happy birthday” balloons wrapped around a powerline by her next-door neighbor’s house this spring. Martin didn’t know where the balloons originated. Both Kill Devil Hills and…...