April Laissle/WFDD Radio It’s been a turbulent summer at Greensboro City Hall. Earlier this month, City Attorney Chuck Watts abruptly resigned. A day later, the State Bureau of Investigation announced plans to review the activities of a member of the city council. Now there’s talk of a separate investigation into Watts’ business dealings. WFDD News […]
Shea Carver/Port City Daily More consideration is being made on an ordinance intended to strengthen protections for homes built in a floodplain in one Brunswick County town. After Town of Leland council members heard from area constituents regarding a change to chapter 26 of its town ordinance, they tabled moving it forward, for now, motioned […]
Will Doran/WRAL News When North Carolina legalized smokable hemp in 2018, police and prosecutors spoke frequently and clearly about their biggest fear: It would effectively legalize marijuana in North Carolina, they said, due to the fact that hemp looks and smells exactly like marijuana. Those similarities, the thinking went, would present a challenge to enforcement […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes is setting off on a mission to correct 103,000 North Carolinians’ voting records from which some information is missing. He maintains that the process, dubbed the Registration Repair Project, will not remove any eligible voters from the state’s voter rolls. According […]
Bradley George/WUNC Radio The RDU Airport Authority and Pacific Elm Properties will work on a plan to redevelop a 136-acre tract of land adjacent to Lake Crabtree County Park. The board that manages Raleigh-Durham International Airport has approved plans for a new development around Lake Crabtree. The RDU board announced Thursday it had selected Dallas-based […]
Heidi Perez-Moreno/Border Belt Independent James Granger says primary care doctors shouldn’t just focus on patients’ physical health. Their mental well-being is just as important. “Being able to do both, to understand both aspects, makes sense to us in being able to send that person on their journey,” said Granger, the chief operating officer for Southeastern […]
Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online After wrestling for years to secure timely maintenance of the Rodanthe-Stumpy Point emergency ferry channel for Hatteras Island, the Dare County Waterways Commission decided Monday that the best solution would be for the county to secure the permits to have its local dredge do the work. The commission had agreed last […]
John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog Ten months after Tropical Storm Helene wrought devastation on our area, a key safety feature of the North Fork Reservoir’s dam has not been replaced and likely won’t be until next year — after the end of the 2025 hurricane season. During Helene, a concrete fusegate at North Fork — the city’s […]
Moss Brennan/The Watauga Democrat More than 30 people filled the Watauga County Board of Education meeting room as staff members spoke out against the classified staff bus driving requirement policy and asked the BOE to reconsider it. Speakers at the July 14 meeting claimed that Policy 6301 violates ADA requirements by denying accommodations to disabled […]
Elena Marsh/The (Southern Pines) Pilot The Moore County Board of Commissioners has called upon federal authorities to aid them in stopping the removal of the High Falls Dam. At the board’s Tuesday meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to send a letter to U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, whose district includes Moore County, seeking help protecting the dam […]
Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Beach nourishment projects are becoming increasingly expensive, forcing some towns to make difficult decisions about funding. When the Army Corps of Engineers announced in May that a contract had been signed for fresh sand to be pumped onto Pleasure Island’s beaches, Carolina and Kure beach officials expressed a sigh of relief. […]
John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog If you’re like me, you avoid driving I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge like warm beer on a hot summer day. Hey, if I have to circle through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas to enter Tennessee from the west and then drive east back to Knoxville, I’ll do it. Perhaps I exaggerate, […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined nearly 20 other states in filing a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday, three months after the federal agency terminated hundreds of flood mitigation grants in April. Last week, Tropical Storm Chantal may have foreshadowed the future costs communities will pay if they […]
Bradley George/WUNC Radio A new, regional bus station will open in Downtown Raleigh next week. But the adjoining mixed-use development by Hoffman & Associates has scaled back its affordable housing component. RUS BUS (pronounced “russ bus”) will serve GoTriangle commuter routes to Durham, Chapel Hill, and Research Triangle Park. It’s located next to Raleigh Union […]
Makiya Seminera/The Associated Press North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Josh Stein decided Wednesday against appealing a trial court ruling that did not go in his favor last month, securing a small victory for Republican lawmakers whom the governor was challenging. The case focused on whether Stein has the authority to choose his own State Highway Patrol […]
