The state Supreme Court has sided with a pair of UNC Chapel Hill and NC State students who are trying to get a refund on the student fees they paid back in the fall of 2020 when classes were online-only because of the pandemic. Via a unanimous ruling from the justices participating, the court is […]
A unanimous state Supreme Court ordered Ashe County’s planning board to issue a permit allowing the development of an asphalt plant near Glendale Springs. Its decision, released Friday, looks to end a nine-year legal battle that’s traveled up and down North Carolina’s appellate court system multiple times since Appalachian Materials first applied for a permit in 2015. Writing […]
WRAL News Brad Briner left a career in high finance to pursue one of the highest-pressure roles in North Carolina government: state treasurer. The treasurer’s department is responsible for managing one of the biggest pension plans in the nation, as well as overseeing health benefits for hundreds of thousands of current and retired state employees […]
MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC Bo Hines has no professional background in crypto. He earned his law degree three years ago from Wake Forest. He’s twice unsuccessfully run for Congress in North Carolina. Now the 29-year-old former football player is wrapping up his second month as one of the leaders of President Donald Trump’s crypto agenda. “We’re well […]
Cristina Bolling/Charlotte Ledger For years leading up to 2023, the financial situation at the Aldersgate retirement community in east Charlotte was quietly deteriorating, and neither state regulators nor residents grasped the magnitude of what was happening. Entrance fee refunds that were due to former residents or their estates were going unpaid. A new nonprofit entity […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Last year was an all-time low in the history of North Carolina farming, thanks to drought and flood. Farmers are desperate to catch a break in 2025. But just as planting season begins, large swaths of the state are still plagued by dry conditions. At the same time, an active […]
Aaron Sánchez-Guerra/WUNC Radio North Carolina is home to more than half a million people of Mexican origin, according to the 2020 U.S. Census. The Consulate of Mexico in Raleigh is tasked with serving thousands of them annually across the Carolinas and surrounding states. WUNC sat down with Roberto Burgos, the Mexican consul in charge of […]
Christopher Milller/The (Concord) Independent Tribune As Cabarrus County continues to see its population increase — it is among the fastest growing counties in the state — so too does Concord-Padgett Regional Airport. Just in the past year, the airport, located at 7435 Zephyr Place NW, Concord, formed a partnership with Avelo Airlines, which now has […]
Ben Humphries/EducationNC At a press conference on Wednesday, lawmakers and advocates unveiled a bill to restrict youth vaping in North Carolina. The bill would raise the minimum age to buy tobacco in North Carolina from 18 to 21. Federally, the required age has been 21 since 2019. It would also establish a permitting system for […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Amid commissioner budget discussions on Thursday, county manager Chris Coudriet confirmed progress on the Northside Food Co-op’s grocery store, planned for 10th and Post streets, has been halted at least temporarily. After a question about a hold on the store from Chair Bill Rivenbark, Coudriet told commissioners the co-op has “stepped […]
Kathy N. Ross/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Almost six months after Hurricane Helene, work will soon begin to start removing flood debris from the Pigeon River. The first phase will focus on removing debris that could pose a hazard to public structures, particularly bridges. An initial 22 sites have been identified, all along the Pigeon, where debris, […]
Alice Scott/The Daily Tar Heel The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Emancipate North Carolina and Muslim Advocates filed a lawsuit against UNC last week, accusing the University of violating the rights of the students and non-students involved in the pro-Palestine encampment on campus last spring. “We hope that the impact of the lawsuit […]
A unanimous state Court of Appeals panel has sided with aircraft engine maker Continental Aerospace Technologies in a product liability lawsuit stemming from a 2013 plane crash. Writing for the panel, Judge Toby Hampson upheld a lower court’s decision to grant Continental summary judgment in its battle with the estates of Debra and Dennis O’Neal. […]
Gov. Josh Stein is asking legislators to take a stab at addressing the Division of Motors Vehicles’ problems by hiring more license examiners and opening a few more license bureaus. His budget request for the 2025-27 biennium seeks a recurring appropriation of $2.6 million over the next two years to hire 61 more license examiners. […]
State Treasurer Brad Briner’s and Gov. Josh Stein’s aides are at odds about the governor’s 2025-27 biennium budget request, which Briner’s team sees as shortchanging the state’s pension system. Via a news release, Briner said he was “disappointed the governor is proposing for only the second time in 83 years to not fully fund our state’s retirement system.” […]
