Alan Wooten/The Center Square Republican U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina will serve as chairwoman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Rules for the 119th Congress. Foxx, of the 5th Congressional District in the northwestern part of the state, won her 11th term on Nov. 5 – longest active of the state’s delegation. […]
Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice Nearly one year after it first met, the Dare County Housing Task Force issued a 35-page report (not including an Appendix) last month that includes a series of recommendations and priorities for easing the county’s housing crunch—ideas that range from Dare towns adopting new land use regulations to investigating the development […]
Mary Helen Moore/The (Raleigh) News & Observer A gun range and law enforcement training center costing over $18 million can be built in Durham, county commissioners decided late Monday night. The Durham County Sheriff’s Office staved off a push from anti-police activists and frustrated elected leaders to secure a 3-2 vote on the construction. “I’m […]
Daniel Sheehan/Wilmington StarNews As Wilmington sees growth on the ground, traffic above our heads has also increased. Wilmington International Airport is currently undergoing a variety of expansion projects to accommodate the uptick in passenger travel. New nonstop flights, a terminal expansion and an onsite hotel are all signs of the 40% increase in passengers that […]
Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times Nonprofit BeLoved Asheville has purchased a roughly 8-acre parcel in Swannanoa with plans to build a new “village” of deeply affordable homes, replicating ongoing work at its East Asheville property where 12 tiny homes are awaiting final steps. It is their response to Asheville’s housing crisis, which co-director Amy Cantrell said […]
Speaking of California, it’s probably a good time to note that every member of that state’s congressional delegation who voted on it supported the federal hurricane relief bill that cleared Congress just before Christmas. All but six of California’s 52-member U.S. House delegation and one of its two U.S. senators participated in the Dec. 20 […]
The main lesson of the ongoing fires in California is that it’s counterproductive to “artificially hold down the true cost of insurance,” N.C. Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says. As they have with Florida, insurers have pulled out of the California market for homeowners insurance because they can’t recoup the costs of covering high-risk areas, he […]
The board of NCInnovation has hired Wells Fargo to serve as the nonprofit’s investment adviser. The move came last week, and complied with a state-law requirement that NCInnovation use an outside firm to “manage and invest” the endowment legislators seeded with $500 million in taxpayer money. Wells was one of 17 firms that initially applied. […]
To a complete lack of surprise in some quarters I’m sure, the folks at the N.C. League of Municipalities wants to see Senate Bill 382’s restrictions on downzoning rescinded. “We’re hoping they strike the provision and recognize that whatever was attempting to be accomplished here, this was not the way to do it,” said Scott […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press With the county’s supermarket, downtown restaurants, manufacturing sites and prisons struggling to reopen in the wake of Tropical Storm Helene, Mitchell County now has the highest unemployment rate in North Carolina at nearly 9% — almost three times higher than roughly a year ago. Recovery and rebuilding from the late-September […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The town of Matthews isn’t going quietly in its fight to keep the Silver Line light rail. To counter the city of Charlotte and the rest of Mecklenburg County — who want to run a bus rapid transit line to Matthews instead of a train — Matthews has hired lobbyist Andy Munn […]
Spencer Kimball/CNBC Cleveland Cliffs is partnering with rival Nucor in a potential bid for U.S. Steel, whose takeover by Japan’s Nippon Steel was blocked by the White House earlier this month, sources tell CNBC’s David Faber. Cleveland-Cliffs would purchase all of U.S. Steel for all cash and then sell off the Big River Steel subsidiary […]
Miles Parks/WUNC Radio For Donald Trump and his supporters, concerns about election administration quickly dissipated once it became clear he would win the 2024 presidential election, and in surveys since, most Republican voters say the election was run well. But for the wing of the Republican Party that has been pushing sweeping election reform since […]
Caroline Parker/Education NC The choir at North Buncombe High School was unable to perform at its annual fall concert due to the impacts of Helene. The district has 45 schools serving over 22,000 students, they were out for nearly four weeks, and the concert was scraped altogether. During the December school board meeting, that choir […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News Despite the damage to its building and the disruption of service brought by Hurricane Debby in August, Sanford’s Helping Hand Clinic staff were better prepared to handle the chaos because of earlier guidance it had gotten for dealing with extreme weather. “We were closed for 11 days, without power for half […]
