After breaking ground just 10 short months ago, the construction of the new north concourse at Asheville Regional Airport is making swift progress. The project is much-needed, as the now-crammed local airport ranked in the top five fastest-growing airports in the country 2023. Surpassing 2.2 million passengers, it is now the third busiest airport in […]
Storms largely drive sand movement along the Bald Head Island beachfront and sand is being lapped away at the east end, where village officials are considering building a series of rock structures on to hold the Atlantic Ocean at bay. The unpredictability in the frequency and strength of those storms were among several points of […]
The town council put forth a proposal to limit house sizes in Oak Island on Tuesday and the measure now heads to the town’s planning board for review. Council member Bill Ciullo proposed two scenarios in which the town could limit mega-home construction aimed at reducing an influx of rental houses instead of residences. Cuillo […]
Two months after signing a contract to outsource local sports promotions to a Florida company, the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority (TDA) has told the local sports commission it will cut its remaining $60,000 in annual funding from the TDA effective at the end of June. Relations have been strained for nearly two years between […]
A High Point woman failed to demonstrate that state and local officials acted unreasonably and violated her civil rights when she was arrested at an April 2020 protest against Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 emergency orders, a federal judge ruled this week. And if any of her rights were violated, the individuals named as defendants in […]
Car dealers nationwide are dealing with the fallout from a cyberattack this week that’s said to have forced at least some of them to shift to paper sales records. The attack, affecting Chicago-based CDK Global, was first reported Wednesday, but the situation, according to a metro Detroit dealer, had not been resolved as of Friday. […]
Duke Energy remains a powerful force in the General Assembly as a lawmaker who receives income from the utility pushes legislation to expedite permit reviews for its proposed natural gas plants. Meanwhile, appointed officials charged with overseeing potential conflicts of interest own stock in the company. Duke is one of the largest investor-owned utilities in […]
North Carolina’s state treasurer, Dale Folwell, has built a reputation as someone who will go to battle for state employees, demanding transparency from government partners while trying to protect every tax dollar. That’s why news of a government investigation into Folwell’s possible use of state-owned vehicles for personal errands stunned many people across the state […]
With each legislative chamber uninterested in hearing the other’s spending proposal, North Carolina lawmakers look ready to go on hiatus after next week while a stalemate simmers between Republicans over how to adjust the current two-year state budget. “Perhaps during this summertime with a lot of heat, maybe a little cooling off might be a […]
North Carolina Republican legislative leaders are appealing portions of a federal judge’s order this month that blocked several state laws that restrict how abortion pills can be dispensed, including the requirement that only physicians can provide the drugs to patients. Lawyers for Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore filed a notice Thursday […]
Louise Vincent experienced xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer, a couple years ago. The drug, commonly called “tranq,” caused wounds on her arms that haven’t fully recovered, she said, and she was ashamed of their appearance. “It was the most horrible thing I ever experienced,” she said of the painful wounds. At first, she was too embarrassed […]
The backlog of North Carolina drivers licenses, which at one point reached 350,000 and forced state residents to wait up to eight weeks to receive their IDs, has now been cleared according to the North Carolina Department Motor Vehicles. North Carolina DMV will be fully transitioned over from IDEMIA, its previous vendor, to Canadian-based CBN […]
Health codes require businesses serving food to close if they lose water, but when a water line break disrupted water service along Russ Avenue in Waynesville on Wednesday, Publix managed to stay open anyway — filling the morning bakery cases with fresh goods, butchering meat and serving up all the regular deli fare. Publix had […]
The Charlotte City Council is scheduled to vote Monday on spending $650 million in tax money to renovate Bank of America Stadium, in a deal that would require the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC to stay in Charlotte for 15 years. The city of Charlotte released more details on Friday about the deal with Tepper […]
The city of High Point has filed a civil lawsuit against chemical companies it claims are responsible for contaminants in its water system. The suit says it aims to recover the costs and damages the city has incurred because of PFAS compounds in the public water supply and related infrastructure. These potentially harmful compounds are […]
