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By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer For years, residents of Chatham Estates in Cary lived with uncertainty after the property's owner first announced plans to sell the mobile home park in 2023. What initially felt distant slowly became reality. By Christmas Day 2025, eviction notices confirmed what many had feared: the community, home to more than 700 residents across 144 mobile homes, would be cleared to make way for redevelopment, with

By Judaea Ingram Special To The Carolinian CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Uptown Charlotte was filled with dense, steady crowds throughout the weekend as the Taste of Charlotte Festival returned, turning Tryon Street into a packed stretch of food vendors, music, and nonstop movement. From midday into the evening, foot traffic rarely slowed. Groups of visitors moved shoulder to shoulder through the festival footprint, weaving between long lines, live music stages, and

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer Briar Creek, NC - In an honest and sobering 2026 State of the City and County address hosted by the Raleigh Chamber and the City of Raleigh over lunch, Mayor Janet Cowell and Don Mial, Chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners, celebrated the region's unmatched prosperity while pulling back the curtain on the severe financial challenges posed by rapid growth. The central takeaway

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Wake County commissioners unanimously approved a $2.28 billion budget for fiscal year 2027, adopting a plan that increases spending while also raising property taxes for residents. The budget includes a 2-cent property tax increase, bringing the rate to 53.71 cents per $100 of assessed value and generating an additional $62 million in revenue. For the owner of a $450,000 home (around the county's median value)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - When in 1976 teenager Yunusa Yau and his friends grew tired of Nigerian soldiers' high-handedness in their school, they turned to a satirical song - "Zombie," by Fela Kuti, the title track of his album released that year. By then, the military had been in power for a decade, following a coup. A brutal civil war killed at least three million people, rocking the fledgling democracy

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer North Carolina's construction boom is reshaping the state's economy. But behind the surge in billion-dollar projects and record growth, a more troubling trend is emerging: construction workers are dying at increasing rates. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 196 workers died on the job in North Carolina in 2024, a 10.7% increase from the previous year. The construction industry remains the most dangerous

CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS - When history repeats itself, it's usually not so quickly. During the lead up to the primary election, students at Western Carolina University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and University of North Carolina-Greensboro raised alarms about the exclusion of campus early voting sites from county plans. At WCU, it was a break from longstanding tradition. NC A&T and UNCG hadn't hosted midterm primary early voting

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer NC General Assembly - On Tuesday in an emotionally raw and highly technical committee session, the North Carolina House Judiciary Committee advanced a Proposed Committee Substitute (PCS) for House Bill 1144, also known as the Dominique Moody Safety Act. The updated bill, primary sponsored by Representatives Carla Cunningham (U-Mecklenburg), Allen Chesser (R-Nash), Mike Colvin (D-Cumberland), and Mike Schietzel (R-Wake), shifts from a broad outline to

[caption id="attachment_18188" align="alignnone" width="1231"] Screenshot[/caption] Richard Luscombe, Joseph Gedeon and Aram Roston The Guardian The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stripped nine navy officers including women and Black service members from a promotion list last month, according to a person familiar with the matter, resulting in an all-male, overwhelmingly white slate of 22 advancing as nominees to become one-star admirals. Hegseth's unusual intervention violated promotion rules designed to be merit-based

By Judaea Ingram Special to the Carolinian As communities across North Carolina prepare for Juneteenth celebrations later this month, organizers are expecting another year of large crowds, educational programming, and cultural events that honor both history and progress. Juneteenth, observed annually on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas learned they were free. Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863,