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A program at Davidson-Davie Community College is designed to allow students to get hands-on training while they prepare for careers in such health care fields as nursing. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Davidson-Davie Community College program targets health care worker shortage

North Carolina has a shortage of health care workers and the situation may get worse over the next decade. Davidson-Davie Community College is helping…

Homes in the Cleveland Avenue neighborhood of Winston-Salem. Image courtesy of Housing Authority of Winston-Salem.

City of Winston-Salem conveys four lots to Habitat for Humanity

The City of Winston Salem recently gifted Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County land for the development of low-income housing. At its meeting last…

Fresh-picked strawberries fill a bucket at McAdams Farm in Efland, N.C. (AP File Photo/Gerry Broome)

Unusual weather pattern puts region's strawberry crops at risk

Unstable weather in the last few months has raised concerns about the fresh strawberry yields in the region. Erratic weather threw some crops off their…

Detail from a U.S. Department of Agriculture map shows food desert in Wilkes County. WFDD screenshot.

Wilkes County organization fights growing hunger problem

Food insecurity is both an urban and rural problem in North Carolina. Roy Jarrard, a longtime volunteer for Samaritan Kitchen in Wilkesboro, says food…

This March 2002 file photo shows a deer tick under a microscope in the entomology lab at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, R.I. VICTORIA AROCHO/AP

State officials urge residents to take steps to avoid insect-borne diseases

Officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are reminding residents that tick bites can cause serious illnesses such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Waste Management of Carolinas had handled Winston-Salem's residential recycling collections program since 1991. BETHANY CHAFIN/WFDD

After more than 30 years, City of Winston-Salem takes over recycling collections from contractor

The City of Winston-Salem has taken over residential recycling collections from Waste Management of Carolinas Inc., which had done the job for over 30…

Governor Roy Cooper. AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker

Cooper lets changes to NC schools for deaf, blind become law

Governance of the state’s public residential schools for the deaf and the blind is being shifted to new trustee boards controlled by General Assembly…

State Rep. Tricia Cotham, D-Mecklenburg, speaks on the House floor as North Carolina lawmakers gather for a special session on March 23, 2016, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Party switch gives GOP veto-proof control in North Carolina

A Democrat in the North Carolina state House switched to the Republican Party on Wednesday, giving the GOP veto-proof control in both chambers of the legislature and handing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper a setback in trying to block hardline conservative policies in his final two years in office.

Photo Courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

State officials encourage safe driving during Work Zone Awareness Week

It’s Work Zone Awareness Week in North Carolina, and the message from state officials is to “slow down, pay attention, and don’t drive distracted.”…

MIT-educated architect and former Tuskegee Airman William Streat Jr. is seated 3rd from the left. Photograph courtesy of Chad Roberts.

An effort to preserve Black history is under way in Greensboro neighborhood

An effort to preserve Black history is underway in Greensboro. South Benbow Road residents want their neighborhood included on the National Register of…

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