Nearly two decades after a clash over the Catawba River basin made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, Charlotte wants permission to move tens of millions more gallons per day out of the river. The request could return the issue of water transfers to the forefront and ignite opposition in both Carolinas, where there’s potential […]
Adults may soon be able to purchase marijuana for recreational use from Cherokee’s new dispensary. At a work session last week, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian’s Tribal Council discussed several questions they had regarding a potential ordinance that would legalize sales of cannabis to any adult with a valid ID. At the outset of […]
Adults may soon be able to purchase marijuana for recreational use from Cherokee’s new dispensary. At a work session last week, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian’s Tribal Council discussed several questions they had regarding a potential ordinance that would legalize sales of cannabis to any adult with a valid ID. At the outset of […]
The UNC Board of Trustees approved an audit of the school’s athletic department Monday morning amid concerns and anger over the Tar Heels’ revenue, management and changes to college sports. The board plans to meet about athletics in closed session during its meetings Wednesday and Thursday. It approved a top line of $134.97 million for […]
The contract for the I-26 Connector section that runs through Asheville has been awarded, the North Carolina Department of Transportation announced May 15. Archer-Wright Joint Venture was selected for the design-build contract for Section B of the I-26 Connector project, which runs from Haywood Road in West Asheville and crosses the French Broad to connect […]
Calling the elimination of an entire squadron and 520 jobs at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base unacceptable, U.S. Rep. Don Davis is steadfast alongside U.S. Sen. Ted Budd as leaders in Congress fighting to stop the change. Davis, an Air Force veteran from Snow Hill just a few miles away from the base in Goldsboro, […]
The academic year is over at UNC, but tensions remain high after several weeks of contentious demonstrations against the war in Gaza Amidst all of those concerns, UNC Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts stopped by 97.9 The Hill last week for a wide-ranging conversation with Aaron Keck. Aaron Keck: Let’s go back to Tuesday, April 30. […]
Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, says he’s a fan of using public money to help parents pay private school tuition. He has watched the voucher movement grow over the last 30 years, starting in the early 1990s as an alternative to public schools in a few deeply troubled urban districts. […]
Scott Lindsay, the former attorney for the Cherokee County Department of Social Services who was tied to that agency’s use of fake legal documents to unlawfully remove children from their families over several years, has been convicted of obstruction of justice in relation to those cases. Lindsay’s trial took place over the last several days […]
Approximately 700,000 vehicles are stolen each year in the U.S. Around 40% of those vehicles are stolen right off of car lots and that number’s going up. “They were driving around scouting us out. They knew where everything was,” says Wayne Dubois, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sport Durst. Two of his dealerships […]
A Republican primary runoff for a North Carolina congressional district on Tuesday could demonstrate yet again the strong influence former President Donald Trump has on GOP politics across the country. Voters will choose between attorneys Kelly Daughtry and Brad Knott in the runoff for the reconfigured 13th Congressional District. Daughtry finished first, and Knott second, […]
Environmental organizations are seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by a North Carolina commercial seafood business operator that they contend seeks to virtually eliminate remaining federal wetlands protections that were dramatically scaled back last year. The Southern Environmental Law Center said Wednesday it had filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern […]
No payroll. No receipts. No bills or invoices. Lacking any supporting documentation, James Freeman, president of the Emerging Technology Institute, nonetheless asked the Town of Red Springs to reimburse him $1.1 million in state taxpayer funds for “service, salaries and goods” related to his military training center and STEM education venture, public records show. But […]
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has pulled a pair of incentives hearings set for its meeting Thursday so state officials can keep conversing with the economic development prospects without having to publicly release details at this point. Last week the commissioners issued public notices that they were considering economic incentives for a pair of […]
Residents living near one of the three golf courses in Waynesville can sleep in an extra hour without the hum of lawn mowers after Waynesville town council put new limits on the hours of operation of lawn equipment last month. Waynesville’s noise ordinance allows lawn maintenance activity to commence at 7 a.m. — but an […]
