Coastal Review Online staff and writers, from left, Trista Talton, Kip Tabb, Sam Bland, Mark Hibbs, Jennifer Allen and Kirk Ross, pose during the North Carolina Press Association editorial awards ceremony Thursday at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley. Photo: Maiah Tabb RALEIGH – Coastal Review Online won a dozen awards…
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2018 Dominated by GenX, Florence, Election
Gov. Roy Cooper speaks in September during a press briefing on Hurricane Florence. Photo: Kirk Ross Although this year started with a continued focus on the GenX story that broke the year before, the two biggest news events of 2018 came much later in the year. On Sept. 14, Hurricane…
Amid Evacuations, NC 12 Open … For Now
Rep. Allen McNeill and NCDOT officials survey the recent sandbag repairs to maintain the ferry station loop at the north end of Ocracoke Island. Photo: Kirk Ross OUTER BANKS — With more than 50,000 people on the move, the evacuation of Hatteras Island is slow but steady and – for…
On Ballot this Fall, an Historic Power Struggle
Former North Carolina governors, from left, Jim Hunt, Mike Easley, Jim Martin, Beverly Perdue and, at the podium, Pat McCrory, speak Monday against the legislature’s proposed constitutional amendments. Photo: Kirk Ross. RALEIGH – With a deadline for printing ballots for the 2018 elections fast approaching, court challenges and high-level opposition…
‘Don’t Drill!’ Reverberates in Raleigh
Offshore drilling opponents rally Monday in Raleigh where a meeting was held on the Trump administration’s new National OCS Program for 2019-2024. Photo: Kirk Ross RALEIGH — The first buses from the coast rolled in a little after 3:30 p.m. and about a hundred New Hanover and Brunswick County residents disembarked,…
Limited GenX Data, Public Messaging At Issue
John Wagner, a concerned resident of Chatham County, speaks at the podium during the North Carolina Science Advisory Board’s meeting in Wilmington before member and New Hanover County Public Health Director Phillip Tarte, left, and panel chair Jamie Bartram. Photo: Kirk Ross WILMINGTON – After a three-hour set of briefings,…
Cooper Rolls Out State Response to GenX
Mandy Cohen, N.C. secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, speaks Monday during Gov. Roy Cooper’s, far right, appearance in Wilmington. Photo: Kirk Ross WILMINGTON — The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality will deny a permit to Chemours to discharge GenX into the Cape Fear River and…
Lawmakers Tour New River Inlet
Rep. John Torbett, chair of a House long-range transportation planning committee, and Ken Willson, project manager with a consulting firm working for North Topsail Beach, review a map of inlet shoaling during the committee tour of the area. Photo: Kirk Ross SNEADS FERRY — Capt. Mack Liverman scanned the channel…
CRO Brings Home 26 NC Press Awards
The Coastal Review Online team, from left, Jared Lloyd, Kirk Ross, Catherine Kozak, Kip Tabb, Mark Hibbs, Sam Bland and Jennifer Allen, pose Thursday with the award for general excellence at the North Carolina Press Association annual editorial awards in Raleigh. RALEIGH – Journalists, editors, freelancers and supporters from newspapers…
Florence Now Cat 2; Surge, Rain Big Threats
…harbor and hunker down for the storm. As of 6pm tonight, all seven of our routes have suspended service until the threat from Hurricane Florence passes. Stay safe out there, everyone, and we’ll see you when conditions improve! pic.twitter.com/cUiKujfp52 — NCDOT Ferry Division (@NCDOT_Ferry) September 12, 2018 Kirk Ross contributed…
Coastal Review Online Wins 14 Press Awards
…Tursi, Kirk Ross and Ashita Gona. Photo: Vicki Hibbs CRO writers and photographers competed against others across the state for the second year in the online-only division of the association’s annual competition. Among the awards for the nonprofit news publication’s work were seven first-place awards, including one for overall design….
The Black Boxes Around Environmental Bills
Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives are shown taking the oath of office during the Jan. 11, 2017, swearing-in ceremony opening the 2017-18 session. Photo: Kirk Ross It’s the end of Sunshine Week, a journalism tradition sponsored by the American Society of News Editors and Reporters Committee for…