Carolina Curious

Recent storms in the Piedmont Triad have caused fallen trees, flooding and power outages, sometimes wiping out traffic lights and signals.Davidson County listener Bill Herndon asked why these signals aren't equipped with backup batteries. For this edition of Carolina Curious, WFDD’s Amy Diaz turned to the North Carolina Department of Transportation to find the answer.

Secret tunnels. A mysterious brick. Machine guns??For this edition of Carolina Curious, we traced the rumors under Winston-Salem and found ... more than we expected.

Summer is in full swing, and it's a perfect season to attend baseball games with close ones. In this week's Carolina Curious, DJ Simmons looks at how one local team got its name.

For this week's Carolina Curious, listener Tyler Foster wanted to know how the culinary tradition of Lexington BBQ got started.

The seemingly odd pronunciation of a popular Winston-Salem neighborhood, Buena Vista, has one of our listeners wondering why people say it that way. In this edition of Carolina Curious, WFDD’s Amy Diaz talks to residents, a librarian and an expert in linguistics to find the answer.

With the new play, "Good Night, and Good Luck," war correspondent Edward R. Murrow is back in the public dialogue. In this week’s edition of Carolina Curious, Bethany Chafin looks into his roots and early days in the Piedmont.

A brutal cold snap in January left hundreds of the state’s turtles cold-stunned. And a gender imbalance among new hatchlings has sparked concern among researchers. All this had WFDD’s April Laissle wondering: How is climate change affecting the state’s sea turtle population? For this edition of Carolina Curious, she traveled to a sea turtle hospital in Surf City to find the answer.

Winston-Salem Department of Transportation Director Jeff Fansler explains that the intersection at University Parkway and Coliseum Drive, being a major city corridor, requires pedestrian accommodations. Financial challenges prevented DOT from redesigning the intersection completely, but he says the city has secured funding to install pedestrian traffic signals on all four corners. The timeline for the project is late 2026 or early 2027, with an estimated cost of $120,000.

Each pair is painted with a different theme—North Carolina wildflowers, native landscapes, and even the state’s iconic horned owl. In this week's edition, April Laissle looks at the story behind the art.

The North Carolina General Assembly is currently in session, considering bills on a variety of issues that could shape residents' future. For this week's Carolina Curious, WFDD's DJ Simmons was wondering: What professions are most common among state legislators?