December 17, 2024 – “The City of Jackson could ban homeless encampments on city property and allow the forced removal of campsites. The City Council delayed plans to vote on the issue this morning.”

December 16, 2024 – “The year 2024 has been a big one for public schools in North Carolina. We saw and will continue to assess the impact of school choice expansion, resulting in more public funding for private schools than ever before.” Graphic Credit: Lanie Sorrow, EdNC

December 12, 2024 – “Brandy Moore says her 5-year-old daughter saved her life. The rural Mississippi mother began her 2019 pregnancy bitterly. The father wanted no involvement and encouraged her to get an abortion, she said. As Moore plotted where and when to get the procedure, which was still legal in Mississippi at the time, she was using crystal meth to cope.” Photo Credit: Eric Shelton, Mississippi Today

December 11, 2024 – “As we close in on a second Trump administration, it is difficult to predict whether the president-elect will deliver on his promise to deport the country’s undocumented immigrant population estimated at between 11 million and 13 million, including 53,000 people in New Mexico.”

December 9, 2024 – “Zachary David Typer was 6 months old when he suffocated after being put down for a nap by his child care provider in Topeka, Kansas. Left on an adult bed, Zachary rolled over and became trapped between the mattress and the footboard.”

October 17, 2024 – “We talked to engineering experts about what it will take to repair and replace the hundreds of roads, bridges, and culverts that Hurricane Helene destroyed. The short answer: lots of time and money, and some creativity.”

October 9, 2024 – “The Junaluska Gospel Choir band riffed upbeat tunes as congregants of the Boone Mennonite Brethren Church greeted each other and settled into the wooden pews on Sunday morning. It was the first service since Hurricane Helene swept across Western North Carolina, causing widespread flooding and landslides…”

August 7, 2024 – For several months, WHQR followed the lives of homeless individuals in Wilmington, N.C. All face significant challenges and work together to stay safe. This story was originally published in WHQR and was made possible by a grant from the Fourth Estate Fund.

April 16, 2024 – “Barbara Adeyemi’s life was bottoming out. She had stopped working in order to care for her mother, who then passed away. Behind on bills with no place to stay and nowhere else to turn, Adeyemi found herself at the doors of the Durham Rescue Mission in November 2018.”