Jenny Callison/WilmingtonBiz The arrival of Cincinnati, Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank in Wilmington is the latest in a string of financial institutions that have expanded their footprint into the Port City environs. In early December, the bank held an official opening in its Myrtle Grove location, a remodeled former SunTrust branch. The new location brings to […]
Santiago Ochoa/WFDD Radio Michelle Griffin is a realtor based in Banner Elk. She’s seen the area’s housing market shift in real-time after Helene. After witnessing hundreds of houses washed away or damaged beyond recognition, Griffin says spooked buyers and sellers have been calling her to rid themselves of what were once dream homes. Even going […]
Casey Quinlan/NC Newsline A rise in food prices makes for a less than merry holiday season. Grocery prices rose 0.4% in November, according to the Consumer Price Index, released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Eggs made one of the biggest jumps at 8.2% over the month, and 37.5% over the past […]
Lora Lavigne, WRAL Anchor and Reporter Durham Public Schools is working to address an ongoing bus driver shortage. A Durham County Commissioner is now chipping in, striving to be apart of the solution. “We’ve always struggled with drivers. We’ve always struggled with trying to keep and retain our bus drivers and so this is not […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Fayetteville State University held a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday for its new College of Education building. With the new space, the university hopes to increase its enrollment of students in the College of Education and add new bachelor and graduate degree programs for them, officials said. Fayetteville State has been a pipeline […]
Felicia Sonmez/WFAE Radio The number of passengers traveling through Asheville Regional Airport dropped sharply in October, according to figures released Friday by the airport authority board. Overall passenger traffic numbers in October 2024 were down about 53% compared to October 2023. Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority President and CEO Lew Bleiweis said in a memo […]
Jimmy Potts/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The Maggie Valley Police Department issued more than 40 citations last week for commercial trucks illegally traversing U.S. 19 over Soco Gap. Trucks seeking a detour around the closed section of I-40 are finding their way to Maggie and attempting to take the narrow, steep, curvy, treacherous route over the mountain […]
Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise An $18.5 million federal grant will advance several redevelopment initiatives in south High Point. The Southwest Renewal Foundation has been selected as one of 105 recipients of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “community change grant,” the EPA announced Thursday. The nonprofit was the lead applicant for the grant, which focuses on […]
Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Imagine that a hurricane skirted the coast, causing the power to go out. You wait for the green light to blink on your backup power. Getting the all-clear, you flip on the switch connected to the community’s wave-powered alternate generator, and your refrigerator is humming again. That creative concept is still […]
The N.C. Department of Transportation is funding the launch of a new center at N.C. A&T State University to work on what the agency is calling “innovative aviation technologies.” DOT is providing $2 million to seed the project, which also will involve NC State and Elizabeth City State University. Officials are calling it the University […]
To no one’s great surprise, Gov. Roy Cooper and Gov.-elect Josh Stein have sued legislative leaders over Senate Bill 382 and its treatment of the executive branch. But the complaint’s twist is its focus on the proposed elevation of the State Highway Patrol to a cabinet-level agency — and language in it that denies Stein the […]
From early on, the Cooper administration has been urging the General Assembly to get resources — i.e. money — out the door quickly to better the odds that western North Carolina would bounce back strongly from Hurricane Helene. That’s advice legislative leaders haven’t adopted in full, but Cooper’s budget director points to a recent paper […]
Brian Murphy/WRAL News Before the University of North Carolina ended up here — here being an introductory press conference for one of the most successful professional football coaches ever, but one who has never coached a single collegiate down, seated between a chancellor who comes from finance and not academia and a typically impeccably dressed […]
The Associated Press North Carolina’s Supreme Court issued mixed rulings Friday for businesses seeking financial help from the COVID-19 pandemic, declaring one insurer’s policy must cover losses some restaurants and bars incurred but that another insurer’s policy for a nationwide clothing store chain doesn’t due to an exception. The unanimous decisions by the seven-member court […]
Kevin Griffin/Greensboro News & Record When the time came for the final override vote on Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of House Bill 382 on Wednesday, two Democratic representatives were absent. One of them, Rep. Joe John of Wake County, issued a statement after the vote explaining he had recently been diagnosed with throat cancer. The […]
