Jacob Biba/Asheville Citizen Times Buncombe County’s former tax assessor, Keith Miller, had an extra-marital affair with another county employee, according to a Nov. 7 complaint filed by Miller’s wife in Buncombe County District Court. In September, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners terminated Miller for engaging in an inappropriate business dealing with a subordinate employee, […]
Business North Carolina Australia’s Sayona Mining agreed to buy Belmont-based Piedmont Lithium, which is hoping to add a lithium mine in Gaston County. The companies already jointly own a lithium project in Quebec in Canada. Having a combined firm will create a stronger business and create the largest North American lithium producer, the companies said. […]
Morgan Casey/CityView About one in every 9 pregnancies in Cumberland County resulted in a preterm birth last year. The figure isn’t new. It’s been about this number since 2019. Yet, the county is being asked to decrease its stagnant preterm birth rate to meet the goals of North Carolina’s Perinatal Strategic Plan. The initiative aims […]
Stuart Chirls/Freight Waves The Port of Virginia has announced the delivery of the first of four new ship-to-ship cranes to be installed at the East Coast container gateway. The port said the new 170-foot cranes will double the number of ultra large container vessel (ULCV) berths at Virginia International Gateway, for ships carrying more than […]
Jule Hubbard/Wilkes Journal-Patriot The North Wilkesboro commissioners are considering buying a 13,869-square-foot building at 711 Main Street for $2.2 million and leasing it to a company not yet identified at a reduced rate for five years. The company would have an option to purchase the building from the town at the end of the five […]
A joint oversight hearing on Monday left it unclear whether legislators will spend more money on the recovery from Hurricane Florence, or rely on the same agency to deal with housing issues created by Hurricane Helene. Former Rep. Pryor Gibson, now working as a legislative aide to the N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency, told […]
Sad news from the N.C. Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, whose board chairman confirmed Monday afternoon that association Executive Director Tim Kent has died. Kent had led the trade group since the fall of 2010, part of a nearly 35 year career as a Raleigh trade association executive. “He’s been a great asset, a great […]
Chipmaker Wolfspeed’s board is dismissing CEO Gregg Lowe, who has led the company since 2017. The move will result in Lowe leaving the company by the end of the month and follows the board’s Nov. 12 decision to “terminate Mr. Lowe’s employment without cause,” the company said in a SEC filing. Lowe has also resigned from […]
Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio Asheville lifted its boil water notice, city spokesperson Clay Chandler shared Monday morning at a press briefing. The notice was lifted after the city’s water department tested 120 samples over the weekend. Turbidity is under 15 and the city expects it to remain low enough to process and meet demand. […]
Regan Butler/The Daily Tar Heel Socio-economic equity concerns surrounding Morehead-Cain Scholarship nominations for both sophomore and first-year applicants were reignited by the Nov. 4 announcement of the Morehead-Cain Foundation’s new Sophomore Selection Scholars. Some Morehead-Cain recipients questioned the program’s equity, while others commended diversity and inclusivity among scholars. Selected incoming first-year and sophomore students are […]
Liz Bell/Education NC Legislators return next week for their last session before state child care stabilization funds run out at the end of December, and advocates are requesting a one-time allocation of $100 million to avoid closures and price hikes for parents. Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, said in June that he expected legislators to allocate […]
John Hood/The Carolina Journal The North Carolina General Assembly has made our state a more attractive place to live, work, and do business by reforming our tax code, reshaping our regulatory system, renovating how we fund infrastructure, and taking some initial steps toward a more competitive hospital market. When it comes to health care more […]
Jennifer Berry Hawes & Mollie Simon/ProPublica Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a ProPublica analysis found. In North Carolina alone, we identified 39 of these likely “segregation academies” that are still operating […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Dave Hallac called it. Within 48 hours, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore superintendent’s prediction came true. Another unoccupied, imperiled home on Rodanthe’s ocean shore toppled into the Atlantic Ocean. “I would not be the least bit surprised with this weekend’s king tide and elevated seas from the north winds if they […]
Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer After Canton Town Planner Byron Hickox donned a pair of muck boots he borrowed from his 15-year-old son recently, he grabbed a clipboard of worksheets used to assess damage on homes within Canton’s flood plain maps and spent the morning in the field. It’s a routine he has followed for a […]
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