pandemic

A new art exhibit at the Durham Arts Council celebrates a food movement that started in East Durham during the pandemic.

The effort comes as North Carolina faces an impending shortage of nurses over the next decade.

The "Sip n' Stroll" district currently includes about six square blocks downtown. The expansion will add more of the Warehouse District up to parts of Hillsborough Street.

An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found 230,000 students in 21 states who have gone missing from schools. They did not move out of state, and did not sign up for private school or home-school.

Before the pandemic, the organization was able to grant 200 wishes a year, from bedroom makeovers to trips to Disney World. But the pandemic has created a backlog.

The initiative is focused on people aged 16 to 24 who struggled with staying in school or college during the pandemic.

Artist Jill Magid inscribed pennies with "The body was already so fragile" — and now brings a film of the process to Brooklyn, giving people a chance to reflect on the pandemic.

Vaccinations and residual immunity are among the reasons, President Biden's chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said Tuesday, as the number of deaths drop and hospitalizations rise only slightly.

In 18 states that shared data through the current school year, the number of homeschooling students increased by 63% in the 2020-2021 school year, then fell by only 17% in the 2021-2022 school year.

The performance audit by State Auditor Beth Wood's office declared Golden LEAF failed to monitor the federal coronavirus relief funds the General Assembly sent to the foundation in spring 2020 for the foundation's COVID-19 Rapid Recovery Loan Program.