Consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. is delaying plans to build a corporate campus in Research Triangle Park. But the company says it’s still committed to growing in the region. Apple executives briefed state officials last week on its plans to move forward with one of the region’s biggest economic development projects. The company wants to […]
Advocates believe homebuyers will be able to make more informed decisions after a rule requiring sellers to disclose detailed information about their properties’ flood risk and history goes into effect at the beginning of next month. The change may also impact the state’s real estate and insurance markets. In March, the North Carolina Real Estate […]
Rik Emaus came home one afternoon in August 2021 to find his teenage daughter distraught. “She just had this absolute look of loss and pain that I’ll never forget,” Emaus said, recalling how he found his daughter sitting on the couch holding a picture of her and three friends in their middle school prom dresses. […]
The Charlotte City Council voted 7-3 Monday night to approve spending $650 million worth of tax money to help renovate Bank of America Stadium. Under the deal, Tepper Sports and Entertainment would contribute $150 million of its own money to the improvements in the next four years, for a total of $800 million, and would […]
The state is requiring two companies with facilities near the Port of Wilmington to adopt additional control measures after investigating resident complaints about the impact of dust in their neighborhoods. The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) issued a news release Monday stating Enviva Pellets and Basaga International must do a […]
North Carolina environmental organizations are celebrating a recent decision in a coastal North Carolina man’s challenge to remaining federal wetland protections under the Clean Water Act. The case is ongoing. Robert White of Pasquotank County, who operates various businesses in area, brought the case in March, challenging what he contends are illegal provisions in Environmental […]
An oceanfront home in Rodanthe on the Outer Banks collapsed into the Atlantic in late May. It was the sixth home since 2020 to fall into the ocean in the small village on Hatteras Island. A new bill could give beachfront property owners an added incentive to remove threatened homes before they fall into the […]
Moore County Airport officials and the Convention and Visitors Bureau have opened discussions into the possibility of commercial flights returning to the airport for the first time since 2007. Airport Director Rick Cloutier presented the CVB board Monday with an air service development study done by Volaire Aviation Consulting regarding the feasibility of commercial flights […]
Appalachian State University has rescinded its evening parking pass requirement, allowing drivers once more to park for free on the university’s Boone campus after 5 p.m. on weeknights and on Saturdays and Sundays, with the exception of football games and other special events. The university’s Board of Trustees approved the decision during its annual retreat […]
Faced with a 13-acre mixed use development in the heart of their community, the Whalehead Property Owners Association (WPOA) has filed suit in Currituck County Superior Court against Currituck County and CB Land Development, a company created by SAGA Construction to build the project. A hearing on the suit is scheduled for August 12. If […]
Flooding in the Midwestern U.S. collapsed a railroad bridge and sent water surging around a dam Monday after days of heavy rains that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate or be rescued from rising waters. The flooding brought additional misery to parts of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota during a vast and stubborn […]
The housing markets of North Carolina’s largest metropolitan areas — Charlotte and Raleigh — are seriously and severely unaffordable, respectively, according to a recent report from urban planning policy firm Demographia. Demographia ranked cities by median multiple, a figure calculated by dividing the location’s median house price by the median household income. Charlotte’s median multiple, […]
Superintendent Catherine Truitt and I sat down for a conversation last week at EdNC’s annual retreat with our board, strategic council, and team. I think Truitt and I first met when EdNC held our student town hall in February 2020 in Edgecombe County ahead of that year’s election. Abdur, one of Principal Matt Bristow-Smith’s students […]
Raleigh’s zoning reform has been one of the most effective policies in the country at creating more housing, Patrick Young, Raleigh’s director of planning and development, told the Raleigh City Council. Why it matters: Raleigh’s ongoing tweaks to its zoning code are similar to those of many cities nationwide trying to boost housing options to […]
Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities. “I’ve said it before, and […]
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