The developers for a high-end automotive motorsports track and car resort in northwestern Moore County answered more questions about the planned development in a second community with a larger gathering Monday evening in Robbins. Opinions over the proposed project are conflicted, with some saying the development will add unwanted noise, light and traffic to the […]
It’s been a little under a year since Corrina Ruffieux took over for longtime Haywood County Tourism Development Authority Executive Director Lynn Collins, but Ruffieux’s wasted little time bolstering the TDA’s destination marketing strategy with robust and insightful data meant to show the county’s relative strengths and weaknesses while also hedging against uncertainty with new […]
An ongoing issue over the chiller system at Hiwassee Dam School shows just how chilly relations are between Cherokee County commissioners and school board members. County commissioners have grown increasingly impatient with the school board over its decision to shut down middle schools in Martins Creek and Ranger without a public hearing, as well as […]
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is moving closer to replacing the Dean Dome, home of its men’s basketball team for nearly four decades. The university could identify the positives and negatives of sites for a potential new men’s and women’s basketball arena by the end of the month. UNC is paying Kansas City-based Populous […]
The city school system is looking at freezing some vacant school positions and cutting central office personnel to cope with a $1.2 million shortfall. Much of the funding gap stems from the loss of $1 million in annual federal pandemic funding, a situation experienced by other school systems, according to Maggie Fehrman, Asheville City Schools […]
Drive an hour south of Nashville into the rolling countryside of Marshall County, Tennessee — past horse farms, mobile homes and McMansions — and you will arrive in Chapel Hill, population 1,796. It’s the birthplace of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who helped found the Ku Klux Klan. And it’s the home of Todd Warner, […]
When you map the primary religion in every county in America, the Catholics stand out. As America’s single-largest religious group, Catholics show up everywhere, from the Italian alleyways of New England to the thriving Filipino churches of Hawaii, from the Polish pockets of the Rust Belt to the Cuban corners of South Florida. Then there’s […]
A U.S. district court judge has denied a landowner’s attempt to prevent federal regulators from enforcing the Clean Water Act against him, the latest ruling in a set of cases involving wetlands protections in North Carolina. Earlier this month, Robert D. White, of Elizabeth City, sat quietly in a federal courtroom while his attorneys sought […]
The race is not to run against Mayor Vi Lyles. But to succeed her, whenever she decides not to run again. That may be next year. It may be in 2027. But Monday’s City Council vote to spend $650 million to renovate Bank of America Stadium was the unofficial campaign opening for several council members, […]
Katherine Farris has been an abortion provider for more than 20 years, and she says that this past year has been the hardest of her career — by a long shot. Not her first year of practice when everything was new. Not the year she stepped into the role of chief medical officer at Planned […]
Three months after a resident group requested Attorney General Josh Stein’s oversight of the New Hanover County Endowment, his office forwarded a reminder letter about diversity requirements to local officials. The county’s $1.25 billion endowment was created from the sale of the county-owned hospital to Novant Health in 2021. It is focused on distributing grants […]
Tractor Supply is ending an array of corporate diversity and climate efforts, a move coming after weeks of online conservative backlash against the rural retailer. Tractor Supply, with 2,250 stores, said it would be eliminating all of its diversity, equity and inclusion roles while retiring current DEI goals. The company, which has 50 stores in […]
The Moog Store located in Asheville’s Moog Music factory has closed, Moog Music announced June 28, ending the sale of its world-renowned synthesizers at the location where they are built. The store offered the opportunity to play, test and buy synthesizers produced by the Asheville-based company that was founded in 1953 by Asheville inventor and […]
A project to remove the Shull’s Mill Dam will open up a corridor of 78 miles on the Watauga River and create a healthier aquatic ecosystem. The dam, which sits on the Watauga River along N.C. 105 near the entrance to Old Shull Mill Road, will be removed over the coming weeks starting on June […]
Before the Town of Southern Shores made a decision about how to treat milfoil, an invasive weed found in the town’s canals, council members heard an online presentation from NC State professor Dr. Paul Richardson at their June meeting. Richardson explained what milfoil is and why the growth has been increasing in canal waters. Milfoil […]
