North Carolina’s Local Government Commission voted this week to return full control of all financial affairs to the town of Spring Lake, effective Aug. 1, or as soon as the town can appoint a finance officer. The ruling — at the LGC’s regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday — caught Spring Lake officials by surprise, albeit […]
When Hurricane Florence hit New Bern more than five years ago, families had to be rescued from the Trent Court complex. The effort to rebuild one of the city’s largest public housing projects with money from FEMA has yet to get off the ground. A new study released by the Union of Concerned Scientists shows […]
Hampstead residents have started a petition regarding discolored water and reached out to commissioners after they said concerns were not being handled appropriately by Pender County Utilities, despite a recent water rate hike. “When you raise somebody’s rates and then they have brown water in their toilet, it ain’t good,” Commissioner Randy Burton said at […]
Conversations have continued on a proposed auto park just outside of downtown Cameron, but with no formal application, the discussions have been mainly informational. The over 100-acre project, dubbed “Cameron Motor Condos,” would consist of a potentially private auto park for automobile collectors with a road course, off-road course and 60 to 80 condominiums and […]
Days ahead of a pivotal meeting to discuss the final proposal for the “Meadows at Haw Creek” housing development, not everyone is on board. The 27-acre project at 767 New Haw Creek Road has galvanized the bucolic East Asheville community since it was introduced by the developer, L.B. Jackson and Company, late last year. In […]
Former president Donald Trump’s choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee reflects the ascendancy of the party’s populist economic wing — and the choice is alarming traditional conservative policymakers and elite donors who opposed the pick. Get a curated selection of 10 of our best stories in your inbox every weekend. […]
Tensions ran high at the most recent Macon County Commissioners meeting where about 300 people turned out to express their views on proposed changes to the flood damage prevention ordinance, soil erosion and sedimentation control and water supply watershed protection. Discussion about updating the current regulation started in March when Commissioner Josh Young proposed changes […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be allowed to run for president in North Carolina, the State Board of Elections decided Tuesday in a move that could have significant implications for this year’s presidential election. The vote to approve Kennedy’s We The People Party for the November ballot was 4-1. But Cornel West’s bid to get […]
In 2022, Arizona pioneered the largest school voucher program in the history of education. Under a new law, any parent in the state, no matter how affluent, could get a taxpayer-funded voucher worth up to tens of thousands of dollars to spend on private school tuition, extracurricular programs or homeschooling supplies. In just the past […]
Buried deep within a 40-page regulatory reform bill that became law last week, a new policy handed down by the Republican-led General Assembly will require tax collectors in every North Carolina county and municipality to install a sign “in a conspicuous manner” on each parcel subject to a lien for delinquent property taxes. Local government […]
Rachel Jensen was excited to embark on the next phase of her training in obstetrics and gynecology — a fellowship in complex family planning in North Carolina. But when it came time for her to pack her bags and move from Baltimore, Maryland, to the Triangle last summer, Jensen found a legal landscape much different […]
Toyota could strike a new Formula 1 alliance with Haas, with the two parties understood to be in talks for Haas to use Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe’s technical facility in Germany. TGR Europe’s Cologne engineering centre is home to Toyota’s World Endurance Championship team, created the hybrid engine used in the Yaris World Rally Championship […]
The City Council on Monday authorized incentives for two potential economic development projects in southeast High Point that would entail a combined 174 jobs. One was for C&C Industries, a third-party manufacturer of personal care products. The other was for Triad Expeditors, a regional company planning to consolidate and relocate its operations to the city. […]
The latest addition to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill will be waiting a little longer to open its doors to patients. The North Carolina Surgical Hospital is pushing back its opening date to late August, as a recent burst pipe caused flooding and damage on the weekend of July 5. An email from the hospital’s […]
Jonas Pate’s new Amazon series will roll cameras starting this week in the Port City. “The Runarounds” is about a group of high school graduates and musicians who decide to hit the road in attempt to make their dreams come true. According to film permits from the City of Wilmington, crews will be set up […]
