Richard Stradling/The (Raleigh) News & Observer The N.C. Department of Transportation and its contractors will be able to mine stone from Pisgah National Forest to help rebuild Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge in Western North Carolina, federal officials said Thursday. The stone is needed to rebuild a four-mile section of the highway that […]
John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog In 2024, MANNA FoodBank set an ambitious fundraising goal for the year: $8.4 million. The nonprofit that ensures food security for 16 western North Carolina counties exceeded that target by 340 percent, bringing in $37 million. MANNA, which provides more than 20 million pounds of food a year to those in need, […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily An AI camera pilot program, politicized since its approval by the General Assembly, remained controversial even after the New Hanover County school board voted it down at a Tuesday meeting. At its agenda review meeting this week, the board picked up a conversation on a state-funded pilot that would ally artificial […]
Jeffrey Collins & Brittany Peterson/The Associated Press When Nicole Taylor and her family moved to their new home in the South Carolina mountains six months ago, the gorgeous view of Table Rock Mountain was the clincher. She ended up with a porch-side seat to one of at least a half dozen wildfires in the Blue […]
Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online Addressing PFAS and other emerging compounds is a “top priority” for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Secretary Reid Wilson told the more than 300 attending the N.C. Water Resources Research Institute’s annual conference. “We are spending a lot of time and energy” working on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek has told at least one county GOP group his office’s ongoing audit of the Division of Motor Vehicles could wind up damaging former Gov. Roy Cooper. The Spring Hope Enterprise reported this week that Boliek, in comments to the Nash County Republican Party convention, said that DMV is “a bigger mess […]
RTI International says cuts in federal funding will lead to 525 permanent layoffs at its Durham office, many without the customary 60-day notice. Layoffs began March 7 and will continue through at least May 1, according to a WARN Act notice filed with the state. RTI’s is the largest mass layoff in North Carolina so […]
State Treasurer Brad Briner’s said on numerous occasions that he thinks the state needs to move away from the “single fiduciary” model for managing its investments. Now, there are bills pending to operationalize this. House Bill 506 and Senate Bill 709 are substantively identical, and may even be literally so given that they both end […]
Will Doran/WRAL News Dan Bishop, a hardline conservative politician from Charlotte, is now one of the country’s top officials in charge of implementing President Donald Trump’s budget plans. The U.S. Senate confirmed Bishop in a party-line vote Wednesday, 53-45, to be the new No. 2 official at the White House Office of Budget and Management. […]
Will Michaels/WUNC Radio Dollar Tree has made a deal to sell Family Dollar, the bargain store chain that was founded in North Carolina nearly 70 years ago. The $1 billion sale announced Wednesday comes a decade after Dollar Tree bought Family Dollar for $8 billion. Dollar Tree has struggled to incorporate Family Dollar into its […]
Caleb Herrera/The Daily Tar Heel On Friday evening, the Board of Elections announced Leah Frazier as the 2025-2026 Graduate and Professional Student Government president. This announcement came after a Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday made almost all the candidates write-ins, and an emergency BOE meeting Friday afternoon that disqualified Nyssa Tucker, who won almost 70 […]
Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina government cashed in early when it came to reaping fiscal benefits from authorized sports wagering in the ninth-largest state. A report presented Wednesday to the North Carolina State Lottery Commission, which regulates the betting, says the state expects to have collected $131.3 million in taxes from sports betting […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press As President Donald Trump and his appointees rifle through the country’s balance sheets looking for federal spending to slash, many North Carolina nonprofits are operating in a state of financial uncertainty, hoping they’re not the next target of the administration’s cost-cutting ambitions. While state agencies haven’t reported any major problems accessing […]
Haywood County CofC Watco’s Blue Ridge Southern routes in the region have been shut down since Tropical Storm Helene, but that’s about to change. The Canton to Waynesville line is open now, and the route from Asheville to Dillsboro should open by the end of March, said Kyle Ogle, general manager. The Asheville east line […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News On Saturday, March 15, volunteers gathered at sites like West Point on the Eno River, where cool temperatures and gray skies greeted them. Wearing neon-colored vests and armed with grabber tools and trash bags, they spread out — some working in small groups, others on their own — to collect litter. […]
