Finally, a bit of good non-Helene news. Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson plans a $2 billion investment at a plant in Wilson, about 50 miles east of Raleigh, the company and state announced Tuesday. Janssen Biotech, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson would employ at least 420 people by 2031 with salaries averaging almost $109,000, […]
Duke Energy appears to have made considerable inroads on the power-outage situation in the Carolinas. There are still almost 677,00 customers without power across North and South Carolina, and the utility is still promising to have the lights back on for most by Friday night. It’s worth noting here that the largest number of affected […]
Reader Matthew Eisley points out that flooding has been an issue in the mountains for a long time, and that the Tennessee Valley Authority once had a plan for an extensive series of flood-control dams in the French Broad River basin. But it got killed by environmentalist opposition, he says. “After Helene, I bet the […]
We’ve begun to get a little clarity on why Asheville’s water system is in such dire straits after Hurricane Helene’s flooding. City officials told the Asheville Citizen-Times that the storm washed out transmission lines at the North Fork Water Treatment Plant and the road leading to the William Debruhl Water Treatment Plant. The North Fork […]
Rebecca Shabad/NBC News President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took separate tours on Wednesday of the catastrophic damage resulting from Hurricane Helene, from which at least 175 people have died. Biden visited North Carolina and South Carolina days after the storm swept through Florida and traveled north, causing damage as far north as […]
Aaron Sánchez-Guerra & Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio This summer, it happened again. A migrant farmworker died during a record heat wave in eastern North Carolina. Juan José Ceballos, 33, experienced heatstroke on July 6 in Wayne County, where the heat index was 108 degrees Fahrenheit. The North Carolina Department of Labor is still investigating his employer, […]
Michelle Crouch/NC Health News For years, Charlotte has been the largest U.S. city without a four-year medical school. By next summer, if all goes according to plan, that is finally set to change. The Charlotte campus of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine is scheduled to open in 2025, with its first class of […]
Shea Carver/Port City Daily A line of picketers chanted into bullhorns and held signs near the Wilmington port along Shipyard Boulevard Tuesday. “Machines don’t feed families: Support ILA” and “No work without a fair contract” were the messages displayed as passersby drove past. The International Longshoremen’s Association, representing maritime workers at ports along the East […]
Paul Specht/WRAL News As a deadly storm system approached the southeastern U.S. last week, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s office asked top state officials to support his call for emergency help. He needed approval from the other elected officials in North Carolina’s executive branch, a group of nine known as the Council of State, to […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Avery County is still conducting water rescues for individuals caught in last week’s flooding from Tropical Storm Helene. The county has three confirmed deaths, according to Avery County Sheriff Mike Henley. “We hope that’s all,” Henley said. “But this has been a big event, and to this magnitude, I would say that […]
Moss Brennan, Luke Barber & Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat Officials are describing Hurricane Helene’s impacts as the worst natural disaster in Watauga County’s modern history. Officials from Watauga County Emergency Services, the town of Boone, and Appalachian State University held a press conference to discuss ongoing efforts in the aftermath of the destruction. “We’re now […]
Tyler Wilde/Yahoo!Finance Like so many tech companies, Epic Games grew aggressively at the start of the 2020s and then suddenly declared that it had made a mistake. The Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker cut over 800 jobs last year and maimed and sold off Bandcamp, a website it had purchased just a year earlier. “For […]
Langston Wertz Jr./The News & Observer North Carolina’s public school athletes won’t have to wait any longer to monetize their NIL rights. Wake County Superior Court Judge Graham Shirley on Tuesday granted a motion from a family suing the state for NIL rights for a preliminary injunction. For now, that will allow the state’s public […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Wilmington leaders will consider the sale of two tracts of city-owned land on the north end of downtown next week. The city has received a $1.15 million bid for 17,780 square feet across portions of city-owned properties at 908 and 922 N. Front St. The Wilmington City Council will consider a resolution that […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz International Longshoremen’s Association workers at the Port of Wilmington went on strike Tuesday amid broader work stoppages at ports on the East and Gulf coasts. The ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance Ltd., an entity that represents port management, failed to agree on a new contract before the previous contract expired at […]
