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 […]
James Farrell/WFAE Radio North Carolina ranked 48th in the country in terms of public education funding for the third year in a row, according to the latest annual state-by-state analysis of school funding from the Education Law Center. The state also ranked 49th in terms of funding effort, which looked at school funding as a […]
Port City Daily The film industry brought hundreds of millions of dollars to the state in 2024, thanks to the entertainment industry rolling cameras from mountains to coast. More than 55 productions were set up and made $302 million in purchases statewide for their projects. According to the N.C. Department of Commerce, which oversees the […]
Laura Leslie/WRAL News The Federal Emergency Management Agency is increasing its footprint in the Triangle in the wake of Tropical Storm Helene. The agency has leased a 117,000-square-foot office building in Durham, just outside Research Triangle Park. The building, Danbury Hall, is part of the Sheraton Imperial Office Center. A FEMA spokesman says it will […]
Holly Kays/Smoky Mountain News For the first time in nearly three years, the trail to Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s tallest waterfall is fully open — and following an intensive rehabilitation of its entire four-mile length, Ramsey Cascades Trail is in better shape than it’s been in decades. “It’s a great feeling, just seeing how […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square As 2024 closes, prices for a gallon of unleaded fuel in North Carolina are more than a dime lower than a year ago and continue to hover at about 20 cents better than the national average as they have all year. The motor fuels tax falls a tenth of a penny […]
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