Cole Sams/CBS 17 News With 2025 now underway, NC By Train will try to build on the record growth they experienced in 2024. According to the Rail Division of the NC DOT, the state-supported Amtrak service — known as NC By Train — carried over 720,000 passengers in 2024. This was a 12% increase from […]
Nolan McKendry/The Center Square Lawmakers, free speech advocates and pornography sites across the country are waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on Texas’ House Bill 1181. The high court will hear arguments on Jan. 15 in what could be a landmark case deciding the fate of more than a dozen laws across the […]
Toyota is conducting pre-production trials at its Randolph County factory in the completed building that’s scheduled to start churning out batteries for its hybrid-electric vehicles by the early spring. That’s the word officials at the N.C. Department of Transportation have received. They are in a position to know because the agency coordinated site-preparation work on […]
Gov. Josh Stein continues in the early days his tenure to emphasize western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene. On Tuesday, Stein signed a new executive order, his sixth, to allow the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Transportation to waive maximum service-hour limits for truck drivers who are hauling propane or other […]
House Speaker-designate Destin Hall has filled out his new office’s staff, and there’s no shortage of familiar faces there. Neal Inman, chief of staff under former Speaker Tim Moore, is staying on in that role, as are Communications Director Demi Dowdy, General Counsel Sam Hayes, Deputy General Counsel/Senior Policy Adviser Sumit Gupta and Policy Adviser […]
State Treasurer Brad Briner named four new members to the state’s Investment Advisory Committee, which counsels the $123 billion retirement system. Three of the new appointees are from out of state. Robert Durden is CEO of the University of Virginia Investment Management Co. in Charlottesville; Michael Kennedy is a former senior client partner in Atlanta […]
Will Doran/WRAL News One of the nation’s biggest growers of sweet potatoes has been put into receivership after defaulting on more than $40 million in loans, Nash County court records show. Now the state senator whose family owns the farm says the bank has been overly aggressive, alleging that it has been using her political […]
Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times The city estimates $17 million-$18 million in revenue loss for the current fiscal year due to impacts from Tropical Storm Helene, with the biggest hits coming out of its water resources fund. The estimate does not include property tax losses, which are still being assessed by the county. “It’s very serious,” […]
Emily Vespa & Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger Faced with a growing health care worker shortage and provider burnout, some North Carolina health care leaders have said there is great promise in artificial intelligence systems. The state’s health care systems have been early adopters of AI tools — overt and invisible — that […]
Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina General Assembly elections were finalized Monday as officials issued certificates to the winners in three close legislative races from November that later became subject to recounts and formal protests. This ministerial action by election administrators also confirms that Republicans have lost their veto-proof control of the legislature — […]
WFDD Radio The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that it is suing a Tennessee-based mortgage lender owned by Berkshire Hathaway, accusing the company of predatory practices aimed at steering borrowers into manufactured homes they could not afford. The CFPB said that Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance often disregarded evidence that borrowers could not afford […]
Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro UNC students return to class this week to begin the spring semester – and as always, there is an ongoing debate over what should and shouldn’t be taught in the classroom. Professors say they are feeling pressure to avoid discussing issues of structural inequity – and to focus their attention only on […]
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily The International Association of Fire Fighters is requesting the county remove personnel from a Castle Hayne fire station after finding a high concentration of severe health issues among the facility’s personnel. The county maintains it has taken necessary action to ensure safety. The International Association of Fire Fighters general counsel, Peter […]
Jimmy Potts/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A North Carolina Department of Transportation worker wore multiple hats during Hurricane Helene and is a part of one of the most vital parts of the reconstruction effort — rebuilding the roads. When NC DOT Assistant Resident Engineer Daniel Ross headed to work the morning of Sept. 27 and was told […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise Telisha Roberts’ experience in the business world has run the gamut. She started out working at her family’s dry cleaners in her native Winston-Salem and later spent 26 years in the corporate world, including a stint as an executive with tobacco giant Reynolds American. She’s putting all of her knowledge […]
