A major zoning-policy revamp, House Bill 765, has probably reached the end of the road for this session, even if some of its ideas go forward in another bill, its lead sponsor says. Rep. Jeff Zenger’s bill is parked in House Finance, and on Tuesday morning, he told the Trib he doesn’t see it progressing further. However, the […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/NC Health News The first train to run into Asheville in eight months following Tropical Storm Helene. The rail line is operated by Norfolk Southern. Provided Asheville’s train has come. Norfolk Southern, Western North Carolina’s primary rail carrier, resumed rail service from Tennessee into Asheville on May 20. Those trains are the first […]
Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger After Cathy Head of Charlotte fell and fractured her shoulder in 2023, she was pleased that her health insurance covered almost all of the expenses for her care: the emergency room visit, the physician’s charges and months of physical therapy. Then she got the ambulance bill. For a […]
Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Two big rigs wrecked within an hour of each other while hauling flood debris to a private landfill in Canton last Friday — further fueling complaints that the narrow, curvy road can’t accommodate the nonstop parade of around 1,000 trucks a week. “This road’s not designed for that,” said North Canton […]
Laura Ungar & Amanda Seitz/The Associated Press Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks. Major physicians and public health groups criticized the move to […]
Stacie Borrello/NC Health News “Don’t leave me alone with knives” was the startling plea that echoed through two very different families in North Carolina—and exposed the one broken system that is failing children going through mental health crises. David, a 14-year-old in Raleigh, and Ashley, a 10-year-old in Fuquay‑Varina, each alarmed their parents by asking […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Charlotte City Council voted on Monday to extend the contract of interim city attorney Anthony Fox through the end of the year. They also voted to give him a $75,000 bonus. Fox started in January to replace Patrick Baker. He was supposed to work on a temporary basis through the end […]
Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro The Town of Pittsboro recently adopted an agreement with the county government that could help reshape its downtown. The interlocal agreement with Chatham County, which Pittsboro’s Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted at a meeting on May 12, allows the two local governments to collaboratively decide the future of county and town-owned properties […]
WFDD Radio President Trump has been promising his tariffs will help make America more prosperous. There’s already evidence that tariffs are helping the government’s bottom line. The federal government collected $68.9 billion in tariffs and excise taxes during the first five months of the year, according to Treasury Department data collected by the Bipartisan Policy […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView To help Fayetteville and Cumberland County attract industry, the Fayetteville Public Works Commission is considering increasing the discount it offers to companies that build plants that consume a large amount of electricity. The new discounted rate, called an economic development rider, would last for five years, just as the current discount does. It’s […]
Rickie Houston/WilmingtonBiz The New Hanover County Airport Authority this week approved $78 million worth of work on a project at Wilmington International Airport (ILM) and adopted the airport’s $94 million budget for fiscal year 2026. The $78 million is for phase 2 of the airport’s road, curb and parking garage project, and Monteith Construction is […]
Finally, a fun little item for the baseball fans amongst us: New York Mets slugger Pete Alonso says he wanted to be a Tar Heel. “Originally, for the longest time I wanted to go to UNC,” Alonso said during a recent podcast when another of the sport’s biggest stars, L.A. Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts, asked him where he’d wanted […]
Gov. Josh Stein and other executive-branch officials are pushing back on State Auditor Dave Boliek’s report that said the state had spent $27.4 million keeping a “community care center” in Swannanoa running after Hurricane Helene. The chief criticism, voiced by GROW NC Director Matt Calabria and other officials, is that the auditor’s staff may have conflated some […]
Gov. Josh Stein’s Helene-recovery advisory group wants legislators to put some money into the budget to fund additional landslide-hazard mapping and the creation of a landslide early warning system. Members of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Western North Carolina Recovery approved the request Monday. They understood that it might be a struggle to get the funds into the […]
Eric Olson/The Associated Press Conference commissioners lauded a judge’s approval of a $2.8 billion antitrust lawsuit settlement as a means for bringing stability and fairness to an out-of-control college athletics industry but acknowledged there would be growing pains in implementing its terms. In a 30-minute virtual news conference Monday, commissioners of the ACC, Big Ten, […]
