N.C. immigrant advocates create map of ICE activity

S.C. Senate subcommittee to meet on Tues. Nov. 18 to discuss Senate Bill 323

BRIEFS: Palmetto State measles cases at 47

SC Department of Public Health will have mobile units in Landrum, in northern Spartanburg County on Monday, Nov. 17 and Tuesday, Nov. 18; Brunswick County to oppose Fuquay-Varina’s interbasin transfer

Asheville hospital out of immediate jeopardy; Analyzing the voting data in NYC and Va.

Wisconsin Worker’s comp bill with first raise in a decade for permanently disabled up for public hearing; Simple, short-term solutions to Asheville’s Black population decline are difficult to find, implement

N.C. DEQ to hold public hearings on Transco and Fuquay-Varina's Interbasin Transfer request

Fuquay-Varina's current water supply is projected to fall short of future demands by 2030

Spartanburg councils to meet in next two weeks

Spartanburg City to meet Monday, Nov. 10 and Spartanburg County to meet Monday, Nov. 17; Municipal runoffs scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 18

Spanberger to become Virginia’s first woman governor

Many across the country still awaiting SNAP benefits

States react to SNAP decision; Parents accuse Bonnabel High (in Jefferson Parish, La.) employees of hitting, humiliating special education student

No progress for poor areas despite years of NC tier system designed to spark growth; Family awaits results of independent autopsy on Delta State student Trey Reed

Spartanburg, S.C. City Council to meet Monday, Oct. 27

N.C.'s DEQ accepting public comments on modified air quality permit for Domtar Paper in Martin County

Durham tenants get extra tool to aid in fixing dangerous rentals; Asheville's Mission Hospital in immediate jeopardy for 2nd straight year

Arizona sues over House Speaker’s refusal to seat Adelita Grijalva; New Orleans officials still unable to say why voter education on redistricting was lacking

Spartanburg city council approves hate crime ordinance

Spartanburg City is the second municipality in Spartanburg County to approve a hate crime ordinance. It follows Wellford, which approved its ordinance in 2024.

Local governments in the Carolinas to meet next week

NC DEQ schedules public hearings in Lexington and Mooresville in November to consider air permit modifications for Transco’s proposed pipeline expansion

Altercation involving UNC Greensboro police drawing strong reactions

Cops on Ketamine? Largely Unregulated Mental Health Treatment Faces Hurdles, Mississippi prison chief reopens homicide cases following news investigation

South Carolina

South Carolina has 12 measles cases tied to Upstate outbreak

Spartanburg and Greenville counties are located on Interstate 85 between Charlotte and Atlanta

Mental Health

Students at Miss. college supporting each other through grief

Threat of ICE raids shadows every shift in Chicago’s food warehouses; Good night for incumbents in 18 NC counties that had elections; Data centers in other states are raising power costs in West Virginia

Helene

Difficulties in getting FEMA housing assistance after Helene

Tech giants Open AI, Oracle behind $165 billion data center campus near El Paso; New Orleanians are being priced out of the city; NY MTA Locks in $3 Subway Fare to Start in January.

Local Government

BRIEFS: Local governments in the Carolinas to meet next week

Down Ballot Staff Reports Durham City Council will meet Monday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. and one of the agenda items deal with the second amendment to the building services agreement between the city and The Carolina Theatre. Public hearing items include designating The Chicken Hut as a local

North Carolina

DEQ releases revised Martin Marietta permit for public notice

The site is in Craven County, near New Bern

North Carolina

Helene relief ongoing a year later

Autopsy Finds Trey Reed’s Hanging Death at Delta State Was a Suicide; Kaepernick to Fund Private Autopsy, Mass. residents still lean toward in-person care as telehealth booms; Policy requiring Georgia college professors to put their class syllabus online to start in 2026

new hanover county

New Hanover County parking deck on 2nd Street to reopen Monday, Sept. 22

Down Ballot Staff Reports Beginning Monday, September 22, the New Hanover County-owned parking deck located at 212 North 2nd Street (between Chestnut and Grace streets) will reopen for public use. The deck has been closed since August 4 to allow for essential structural repairs. The deck will provide free and

California

California redistricting could silence rural voices

Mobile reentry center helps people get back on their feet after incarceration; Artist-in-residence program highlights Danville’s growing public art scene

Helene

N.C. DEQ awards $3M for Helene debris removal, biochar for farms in Haywood County

Tropical Storm Helene devastated more than 800,000 acres of forestland across Western North Carolina, leaving behind massive amounts of downed trees and stream debris.

Abortion

S.C. Senate subcommittee to hold Oct. 1 meeting on anti-abortion bill

Written and electronic correspondence must be received by Monday, Sept. 29 at 9 am.

State and Local Government

Next phase of American Tobacco waterline replacement starts in Durham on Monday, Sept. 15

Spartanburg County Council to consider joint industrial park with Cherokee County

climate change

Duke Health aims for statewide expansion

Growth collides with rising seas in Charleston, Why Dozens of Killings In Mississippi Prisons Go Unanswered, Feds Cancel Study on Health Impacts of Industrialized Hog Farms That Produce Biogas