North Carolina’s economy likely will keep thriving in 2025, but President-elect Trump’s professed intentions on tariffs and immigration are clouding the picture, panelists in Business North Carolina’s annual economic forecast say. Campbell University economics professor Mark Steckbeck noted that the state defied predictions of a slowdown in 2024. For 2025, he posits a growth rate […]
Gov. Josh Stein marked his first full day in his new office by signing five executive orders he and his aides believe will bolster western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene. Stein’s Executive Order No. 1 gives the Department of Public Safety and Department of Administration permission to waive a number of normal procurement rules […]
Burgin’s comments at Thursday’s confab also touched on potential legislative issues. For starters, he told participants to expect legislators to introduce a bill in the upcoming long session that addresses the use of cell phones by students in K-12 schools. He said he’s heard from principals who report that over 70% of the 9-, 10- […]
Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times The City of Greensboro has grown like kudzu over the last decade, and, while economic development leaders love that to no end, there are some downsides to all this new development and the huge influx of workers into Guilford County. Traffic on Battleground Avenue, to take just one example, is now […]
Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice Tuesday, Dec. 31 was the last day for the DMV License Plate Office located in Island Pharmacy in Manteo. A part of Dare County life for over 30 years, when the last transaction was processed at 5:00 p.m., for the first time in well over 30 years, the county will not […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio After four years of big climate investments, clean energy subsidies and recognition of climate change from the federal government, massive change is coming as incoming President Donald Trump and his administration prepare a complete 180 on many key policies. Trump signaled his support for fossil fuels on the campaign trail with his […]
Carly Haynes/WRAL News Voting records, business records and social media posts show the driver suspected of a deadly terrorist attack on New Year’s Day in New Orleans once lived in North Carolina. Shamsud-Din Jabbar attended classes at Campbell University’s Fort Liberty (previously Fort Bragg) campus from 2012 to 2014, a Campbell University spokesperson confirms. He […]
Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline As the Cooper administration transitions to the Stein administration, leadership changes are happening across state cabinets as well. NC Newsline sat down with outgoing NC Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley just before the holidays to discuss his remarkable three years at the helm of one of the largest […]
The Watauga Democrat The High Country Real Estate Market of Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, and Watauga counties saw sales down 27.8% in November compared to last year, according to the High Country Association of Realtors monthly report. Inventory also climbed 3% during November compared to last year. In November, 117 closed sales were made on single-family […]
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A plan to generate clean energy at a former asbestos waste site in the county’s landfall is being scaled back in the short-term, but a separate plan to install rooftop solar at a nearby wastewater plant is projected to be complete in 2025. New Hanover County’s recycling and waste management director […]
Tom Joyce/The Mount Airy News When passing by that impossible-to-overlook big blue building on Willow Street in downtown Mount Airy, one might wonder just what the heck is going on inside the structure. The site is not accessible to the general public, and X-ray vision is a skill possessed only by Superman at this point. […]
Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise The long-delayed development of a John Deere dealership in north High Point is moving forward. A site plan submission by James River Equipment to support ground-up construction of a 57,065-square-foot facility at 700 Gallimore Dairy Road is in review by city planners. The company got the 35-acre site zoned and annexed […]
Ana Risano/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Southern Pines maintains over 256 miles of water mains, 169 miles of sewer lines and over 83 miles of roads — a lofty task the Public Works Department takes on day after day. Residents often play a key role in keeping track of each line or road by reporting issues […]
Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina’s latest Democratic governor was sworn into office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper in a top elected position for the second time in eight years. During a small ceremony inside the old Senate chamber of the 1840 Capitol building, Stein took the oath from Supreme Court […]
Eleanor Mueller & Zachary Warmbrodt When a 29-year-old Patrick McHenry entered Congress in 2005, few would have believed the man described as the GOP’s “attack dog-in-training” would retire two decades later as a paragon of pragmatism. But after he spent his first terms brawling to little effect, the North Carolina Republican decided to get serious. […]
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