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Actor Daniel "Koa" Beaty performs during a news conference for the International Black Theatre Festival in June. The festival returns July 29. Image by C. Stephen Hurst courtesy of the North Carolina Repertory Company.

International Black Theatre Festival debuts new name with return next week

The North Carolina Black Repertory Company is bringing its signature festival back to Winston-Salem next week under a new brand. Organizers have upgraded…

UNC Greensboro could eliminate 14 degrees within various bachelor's, master's or doctorate programs. Image courtesy of UNCG.

Two North Carolina public universities may see academic degree cuts soon after board vote

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted to authorize chancellors at two public universities to move forward with more than a dozen degree program cuts. The programs to be eliminated are at UNC Asheville and UNC Greensboro.

Confident in beating Harris, Trump supporters gather in Charlotte

On a scorching afternoon in Charlotte, thousands of former President Donald Trump's supporters flocked to Bojangles Coliseum on Wednesday for his first rally since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters ahead of a Wednesday visit by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who will address a joint meeting of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans vote to rebuke Kamala Harris over administration's handling of border policy

House Republicans are moving quickly to emphasize Vice President Kamala Harris's role in the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S. border with…

Cats are lined up at a mobile spay and neuter clinic. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Forsyth Animal Shelter partners with nonprofit to spay and neuter local pets

The shelter will work with the Humane Solution Spay-Neuter program to up the number of fixed pets in the area. The two organizations will be neighbors now that Humane Solution has moved into the shelter’s unused surgical suite and offices.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, right, Republican candidate for governor, kisses his wife, Yolanda Hill Robinson, after speaking at an election night event in Greensboro, N.C., March 5, 2024. A nonprofit operated by Yolanda Hill Robinson that she recently shuttered was "seriously deficient" in its recent operations, according to a state review examining how it carried out a federally funded meal program helping some child care providers. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

NC review shows nonprofit led by lieutenant governor's wife 'seriously deficient'

A letter dated Wednesday from the state Department of Health and Human Services addressed to Balanced Nutrition Inc. owner Yolanda Hill and others gave the group two weeks to correct a myriad of shortcomings regulators cited or be disqualified from participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

The Servant Center Executive Director Shanna Reece spoke before the Greensboro city council in February to approve funds for the new, medical respite center for veterans and people without housing. Photo courtesy city of Greensboro.

Greensboro plans for first medical respite center for veterans and unhoused residents

The center features 22 dedicated beds for relief and recovery from illness or injury as well as 21 rooms for veterans transitioning out of homelessness.

Cars make their way along a stretch of State Road A1A that was flooded after Hurricane Nicole, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Pompano Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Heavy rainfall expected for the Piedmont Triad as Tropical Storm Debby lands

As Tropical Storm Debby lands in the Triad, officials say people should be prepared for flash flood events as heavy rainfall is expected throughout the region.

The Guilford County mobile WIC unit sits in the parking lot of a county building in Greensboro, N.C., on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. Photos by Santiago Ochoa/WFDD

Guilford County's mobile WIC unit is meeting residents where they are

For just over three months workers at the Guilford County Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, Clinic have been hopping into a Ford Transit Van and…

a man stands looking at a flooded street

Live Updates: Tropical Storm Debby

Debby's final chapter involves moving north and northeast from the Carolinas at a faster clip with soaking rains, flash flooding and the threat of tornadoes into the weekend. Tornadoes spawned by Debby have leveled homes and damaged a school. The death toll has risen to 8.

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