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. […]
Connor Giffin & Ryley Ober/USA Today Network Paul Brock stood at a microphone before a panel of government officials at the Lake Lure Inn, whose packed dining hall had become a makeshift town hall. Neighbors gathered in late October to recovery efforts with the town council. Weeks before, Tropical Storm Helene leveled property and infrastructure […]
Luke Barber/The Watauga Democrat A local entrepreneur is protesting the Town of Boone’s system development fees after discovering that opening a new gym within the town’s limits would cost him an additional $33,348. Seth Norris, the lead pastor at Perkinsville Baptist Church and chief of the Deep Gap Volunteer Fire Department, has recently been engaged […]
Jacob Biba/Asheville Citizen Times Three months after Tropical Storm Helene hit Western North Carolina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved $288 million in recovery assistance to more than 142,000 household and individuals, the agency said in a Dec. 27 release. An additional $307 million in public assistance funding has been approved so far to […]
