Michael Koh/WCHL Chapelboro An Orange County property owner is facing numerous charges after a party on his land attended by more than 2,500 people led to underage, intoxicated revelers wandering through traffic and numerous calls for assistance. Dwight B. Poole, 60, is charged with six counts of aiding and abetting people under the age of […]
Jose Sandoval & Lilly Knoepp/Blue Ridge Public Radio Vecinos, a non-profit free clinic and rural health center dedicated to serving uninsured and underinsured residents, has opened a new permanent location in Franklin. The new Macon County community health hub will serve residents of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, and Swain counties in Western North Carolina. Present […]
Audrey Kashatus/Watauga Democrat On a wet, early April afternoon, the air was thick and humid, moisture hanging heavy. Rain was spitting down slowly after a few hours of steady showers. Everything was wet. Nestled in a valley amongst rivers and creeks, Valle Crucis is a small community just west of Boone with a couple of […]
Christopher Long/The Wilson Times Officials in Wilson believe that now’s the right time for downtown to undergo a rebrand, and they’re looking to residents to determine what that rebrand should look like. “Rebranding now is a strategic decision driven by several factors: community identity, economic development, highlighting assets and future vision,” said Meg Edwards, downtown […]
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A former lead regulator of the commission charged with overseeing Duke Energy joined a law firm that frequently represents Duke and other utilities in rate cases and other matters before the agency. International law firm McGuireWoods announced it hired former North Carolina Utilities Commission chair Charlotte Mitchell as a partner last […]
Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio A $10 million budget appropriation that city of Oxford leaders say is key to a regional water project would be shifted elsewhere under a legislative technical corrections bill, a move Democrats allege is revenge for winning a competitive election in the N.C. House of Representatives. House Bill 74 would shift that $10 […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Of all the companies that have come to North Carolina in recent years, from Toyota to Google to Amazon, cryptomining operations don’t exactly spring to mind. But the state, because of its vast swaths of land, is increasingly being targeted by these outfits looking to operate here — much to […]
Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC State Board of Education Chair Eric Davis and state Superintendent Mo Green recently sent a letter to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education asking members to address reports of a $16 million budget shortfall for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25. The letter also raises concerns about the district’s financial audit for the […]
Jakob Emerson/Becker’s Payer Issues Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking sanctions against LifeBrite Community Hospital of Stokes (N.C.) in a longstanding legal dispute that centers around allegations of fraudulent billing practices. The dispute began in 2018 when LifeBrite accused BCBSNC of withholding at least $15.5 million in reimbursements for services it provided […]
Bill Moss/The Hendersonville Lightning The N.C. Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that the city calls an “unnecessary and troubling overreach” to “circumvent local control” of Hendersonville city utilities, the latest salvo in the long-running conflict between the Henderson County Board of Commissioners and the City Council over growth on the city’s borders. “This is […]
Dan Kane/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Two years ago, Senate leader Phil Berger sought to pass legislation to bring casinos to North Carolina, including one to his home county to counter a gambling complex opening just across the border in Danville, Virginia. That was big news. North Carolina had banned casinos, except for those U.S. […]
Lena Geller/IndyWeek The Durham County Farm Campus project—a long-awaited agricultural education center and incubator farm—passed a milestone Monday as county commissioners received the final feasibility study for the 129-acre Orange Factory Road property. A presentation of the study revealed both ambitious plans and looming challenges for the project, which has been in development for more […]
Evey Weisblat/CityView After numerous and prolonged difficulties with recent capital projects, the City of Fayetteville has hired an engineering consulting firm to help improve its Construction Management Division. The Fayetteville City Council made the decision to hire the firm, Freese & Nichols Inc., at its work session on Monday, after being presented with a report […]
Tyler Davis/The (Henderson) Daily Dispatch In short order during a brief meeting Wednesday afternoon, the four-strong Henderson-Vance Industrial Park Board approved moving forward with a sale of the shell building to Linde Gas and Equipment. The Ireland-based global gas and gas supply company offered $3 million even, a figure that includes $60,000 in earnest money. […]
The drive to partially deregulate the state’s home-construction sector is running into some roadblocks. It remains to be seen if they’re temporary. Rep. Mark Brody, R-Union, conceded Wednesday that House Bill 765, the omnibus measure that would set residential-zone density minimums across the state, wouldn’t make it through the chamber before crossover. “It’s on a […]
