A renovation can leave a home looking completely transformed, but the project is not truly finished when the contractors leave. Furniture, kitchenware, clothing, books, decorations, and everyday belongings still have to find their way back into the newly updated rooms. For an Austin homeowner, this final stage can be surprisingly time-consuming. New cabinets may have…
Accepting a job in California can turn an ordinary career decision into a major life transition. For professionals leaving Boston, the move to San Diego may involve a new office, a different neighborhood, unfamiliar routines, and thousands of miles between the old and new homes. The challenge is fitting a household relocation around a professional…
A piano can dominate a room without looking particularly difficult to move. Once you consider its weight, shape, delicate internal components, and the narrow spaces through which it may need to travel, however, the task becomes considerably more involved. Doorways, flooring, stairs, and exterior paths all need to be considered before the instrument is touched….
The NC budget helps rural childcare businesses by setting a “rate floor” that will end up paying them more per child.
As ticks spread into new parts of the country and emergency room visits for tick bites climb higher than usual, states are scrambling to monitor where the pests are showing up, what diseases they may be carrying and how to warn residents before a bite turns into something far more serious.
Are North Carolina’s new state budget investments in public schools enough to make a real difference? We’ll talk to David Rice of the research and advocacy nonprofit, Public Ed Works, to find out
We dig into some of what the new state budget does and doesn’t do – as well as several other recent developments at the state legislature in a special two-part conversation with Durham County State Representative Marcia Morey..
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Sunday that the Taylor Farms lettuce sample that tested positive for the parasite cyclospora was actually a false positive.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened on Friday to prosecute election officials in states that don’t “participate in securing the elections” ahead of the November midterms.
Chemours, formerly part of DuPont, has been manufacturing chemicals on the Cape Fear river near Fayetteville for decades.