Madison Lipe/Wilmington StarNews Travelers now have the option to choose from two new nonstop flights from Wilmington International Airport. Avelo Airlines announced on Thursday that passengers can now travel to Fort Myers, Florida’s Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) and Hartford, Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport (BDL). Both routes will run twice a week on Thursdays and […]
While the N.C. Department of Transportation is going to move heaven and literal earth to get Western North Carolina’s road network rebuilt, it might take it as much a decade to close the books on Hurricane Helene. That’s the word from Transportation Secretary Joey Hopkins, who told the agency’s oversight board on Wednesday such a […]
Some observations about the election: First, among North Carolina pollsters, the outcome in broad outline was about what they expected. Democratic pollster Tom Jensen told his Facebook followers on Wednesday that his firm, Public Policy Polling, “never had a poll with [Democratic nominee Kamala] Harris up in North Carolina” and had seen “slippage at the […]
Annabelle Timsit, Adela Suliman & Kelsey Ables/The Washington Post Donald Trump is returning to the White House, and people across the world are trying to grapple with how a second term will once again shake up global affairs. Trump’s supporters say his unpredictability is a feature, not a bug, of his foreign policy, to deter […]
Will Doran/WRAL News Josh Stein will be North Carolina’s next governor, another ascension in his two-decade rise through the ranks of state politics, answering the question of whether a decidedly liberal candidate could win in a state like this, where Republicans tend to dominate national races even as Democrats still do well down the ballot. […]
Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Last month, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians swore in Bradley B. Letts as the tribe’s new chief supreme court justice. While the move installs an experienced jurist at the head of the tribe’s highest court, it created a vacancy in a judicial district that has seen a lot of change […]
Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County will get a Christmas miracle, though just a tad late, with the projected reopening of one lane in both directions on the section of Interstate 40 shredded by flooding. Until now, it was unclear whether traffic would return to the closed section of I-40 until final repairs are made, […]
Jakob Emerson/Becker’s Hospital Review CVS Health has named Prem Shah as group president and Steve Nelson as the president of Aetna, effective Nov. 6. Both will report to CVS President and CEO David Joyner. The company also reported a major drop in third-quarter earnings, driven by headwinds at Aetna and premium deficiency reserves recorded in […]
Chloe Courtney Bohl/IndyWeek It was a good night for incumbents up and down the ballot in Wake County, where sitting county commissioners, school board members, and most of the city council won re-election by comfortable margins. Notable exceptions include the Raleigh mayor’s race, where Janet Cowell won in a landslide to succeed two-term mayor Mary-Ann […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Republican Tricia Cotham appears to have narrowly won reelection to a highly contested state House seat in southeast Mecklenburg, based on Tuesday night election returns. After Cotham switched from the Democratic Party to the GOP last year, Democrats made defeating her a top priority. Cotham and Sidman’s race is the most closely […]
WRAL News North Carolina Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson resigned Wednesday, one day after voters elected his eventual replacement. Dobson, a Republican completing his first term, released a statement through the Department of Labor. His resignation is effective at 5 p.m. Wednesday. “I am grateful for the last 14 years I have been able to serve […]
Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online With ongoing removal of petroleum-contaminated soil from Buxton Beach, along with a considerable amount of remnant building debris trucked away since September, a community meeting hosted Monday evening by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives revealed notably less frustration and even a hint of a friendly partnership vibe. “I expect them […]
Starletta Watson/CBS 17 News Ahead of the results of the 2024 general election, one candidate is calling for a recount of the votes in her race. Laurie Buckhout, the Republican candidate looking to take U.S. Representative Don Davis’s seat, is suggesting that the Board of Elections recount the votes in the very tight District 1 […]
Chipmakers like IQE and Wolfspeed that are hoping to make money supplying the EV industry — and the car industry in general — might be in for a bumpy ride over the next couple years no matter who wins the election. S&P Global Mobility said it sees automakers and suppliers alike “delaying near- and long-term […]
We’ve been keeping a close eye on the Greensboro semiconductor business lately, partly because of the wait for something called Project Electro. The waiting is over after Gov. Roy Cooper announced that IQE will expand its operations in the Gate City with help from state- and local-government incentives. IQE is the U.S. arm of Wales-based […]
