Author: Jordan Meadows

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Shared renter households in Raleigh grew nearly 50% over the past decade, well ahead of Charlotte's 29% growth over the same period, tracking closely with the wave of young professionals the Triangle's job market has pulled in, according to a new study from StorageCafe. The study found Raleigh's shared renter households now total nearly 19,000, a larger share of the local rental market than Charlotte.

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, born in Baltimore in 1910 and orphaned and raised in Durham, became one of the 20th century's most consequential yet least recognized civil rights figures. Murray was raised in Durham by an aunt, Pauline Fitzgerald Dame, in a house at 906 Carroll Street built by Murray's maternal grandfather, a Union Civil War veteran born into slavery. Murray graduated at the

[caption id="attachment_19506" align="alignnone" width="1536"] (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)[/caption] By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Bishop William J. Barber II, president of Repairers of the Breach, led clergy and North Carolinians of "every conscience" in a news conference Tuesday morning outside the North Carolina State Legislative Building in Raleigh, denouncing House Bill 958 as the legislature's latest attempt to suppress the vote. House Bill 958 passed the General Assembly along party lines

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The proposed combination of WakeMed and Atrium Health is facing renewed public scrutiny after two major community discussions in Raleigh. The proposal, announced in May, would bring at least $2 billion in investment to Wake County and is expected to create more than 3,300 health-care jobs over five years. WakeMed and Atrium say the investment would help expand and modernize facilities, add inpatient beds, develop

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer A proposed 100,000-square-foot data center in southeast Raleigh will not go before the City Council after all, after the project's developer withdrew its annexation application over the weekend, city leaders confirmed. The project, known in city annexation filings as Radius DC Raleigh I, sought to annex roughly 13.65 acres at 3101 Jones Sausage Road into the city so it could connect to Raleigh's water and

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The first of August marked the anniversary of the day a 23-year-old Women's Army Corps private named Sarah Keys refused to give up her bus seat to a white Marine in Roanoke Rapids, predating Rosa Parks' famous refusal in Montgomery by more than three years. The town of Roanoke Rapids has marked the date as Sarah Keys Evans Day since 2020. [caption id="attachment_19321" align="alignright" width="258"]

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Faith leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and other traditions gathered at Halifax Mall in downtown Raleigh on Friday morning for an interfaith prayer vigil in support of both North Carolina State Highway Patrol officers and immigrant communities affected by a new state law requiring law enforcement to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The vigil centered on Senate Bill 153, which the North Carolina

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer North Carolina Central University cut the ribbon on Monday morning on a new $7.2 million building for its Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research, making it the first historically Black college or university in the country to establish a dedicated AI institute and the first North Carolina college to build a facility devoted specifically to the technology. The roughly 5,000-square-foot building, at the corner

[caption id="attachment_19270" align="alignnone" width="1536"] North Carolina Labor Commissioner Luke Farley and Kisha Scotton, bureau chief for the Wage and Hour Division, discuss the recovery of $3.7 million in unpaid wages for workers during a August 11, 2026, press conference. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)[/caption] By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer North Carolina Labor Commissioner Luke Farley announced Tuesday morning that his department recovered a record $3.7 million in unpaid wages for workers

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Mitch Prinstein, the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and co-director of the Winston Center on Technology and Brain Development at UNC-Chapel Hill, told members of Gov. Josh Stein's Advisory Council for Student Safety and Well-Being said on Monday morning that nearly half of North Carolina's early high schoolers are experiencing digital stress severe enough to interfere with their sleep, exercise, homework,