After numerous and prolonged difficulties with recent capital projects, the City of Fayetteville has hired an engineering consulting firm to help improve its Construction Management Division.
Evey Weisblat
Evey Weisblat is a journalist with five years of experience in local news reporting. She has previously worked at papers in central North Carolina, including The Pilot and the Chatham News + Record. Her central beat is government accountability reporting, covering the Fayetteville City Council.
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Fayetteville City Council votes to enact youth curfew as gun violence rattles city
A year and a half after rejecting plans to establish a youth curfew, the Fayetteville City Council has voted to move forward with a proposal to restrict unattended minors in the city after dark.
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Fayetteville could lose millions of dollars for street maintenance under state budget proposal
A provision in the North Carolina Senate-approved budget plan could eliminate millions of dollars Fayetteville receives each year for street maintenance and repairs through the Powell Bill.
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‘Fayetteville Outfront’ restarts with event on how to do business with the city
The City of Fayetteville has restarted “Fayetteville Outfront,” a series of events where the public can interact with city staff to learn about initiatives and ask questions.
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Dogwood Festival gunfire incident sparks new call for youth curfew, surveillance measures
The fallout from gunfire that led one of Fayetteville’s largest downtown events to close prematurely on Saturday has continued into the week, as local government officials are contemplating hard-line solutions to public safety concerns.
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State lawmakers file bills to address ‘forever chemical’ contamination, make polluters pay for clean-up
A flurry of bills aimed at addressing water contamination in the Cape Fear River Basin has been filed in the North Carolina General Assembly.
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Fayetteville sees uptick in homicides this year following major dip in 2024
While Fayetteville recorded the lowest number of homicides in 2024 since before the pandemic, this year’s homicide rate appears to be inching back to levels typical of the past few years.
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Rep. Richard Hudson shrugs off DOGE concerns in town hall
Weeks after encouraging fellow GOP representatives to avoid face-to-face meetings with constituents enraged by the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to the federal government, Rep. Richard Hudson employed the strategy himself at a tele-town hall on Tuesday.
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Fayetteville transportation authority to conduct half-million dollar regional transit study
The Fayetteville Area Metropolitan Planning Authority is planning to conduct a $500,000 transit study that would provide recommendations for future regional transit projects.
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City may update residential stormwater fees to tiered structure
City leaders are considering updating the residential stormwater fee of $7 per month to be more equitable to the actual amount of stormwater runoff homes generate because of their impervious surface.